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But from L*e among the people, if he never * 'a exoet £ .re anything to the world except hia great rnedy, Warner's safe cure, formerly known :*s Warner's safe kidney and liver cure, he "would be conferring the most practical and far-reaching benefit that it is in the power of (any one man to give the public; It is now conceded that he has the only Specific for kidney disease and uric acid in the luood, and medical authorities of candor agree that if the blood is freed from uric acid by that great remedy, and the kidneys are kept in health over ninety per cent of' human dis­ eases disappears. The manufacturers evidently know, and if they do not, we would like to tell them, of the unanimity of public sentiment in favor of their great remedy; indeed, they seem to real­ ize thi% when they say: "If you do not be­ lieve the statements we make, ask your friends and neighbors, what they think of Warner's safe cure." Such evidence of confidence in the established character and worth of their preparation is unprecedented. Unless they iknow it has merit, and will do precisely what they state, they would not dare give such ad- Tic'- to the public. Such confidence ought to be infectious. What the Persians Think of Her. : Among the Persians even mothers-in- law have an agreeable position, and are the objects of affectionate regard on the part of their daughters and sons- 4fn-law. A curious Old World custom is still kept up among the Christian Armenian subjects of the Shah, among |whom, in strict households, no wife "ware speak in the presence of her hus­ band's mother. The bride is regarded lis the slave of her mother-in-law, and as such may only make use of signs to Communicate her wants or make an­ swers to queries, and-she must always stand in the august presence. A sad sign of the degeneracy of the times is to be found in the fact that the sever­ ity of this rule is becoming relaxed, and that it is reported that "many daughters-in-law now dare to whisper in the presence of their mothers-in- law."--Saturday Review. Useful and Hurtful Medicines. There is a oertain class of remedies tot con­ stipation absolutely useless. These are boluses and potions made in great part of podophyllin, aloes, rhubarb, gamboge, and other worthless ingredients. The damage they do to the stomachs of those who use them Is incalcula­ ble. They evacuate the bowels, it is true, but always do so violently and profusely, and be­ sides, gripe the bowels. Their effect is to weaken both them and the stomach. Better far to use the agreeable and salutary aperient, Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, the laxative effect ol which is never preceded by pain, or accom­ panied by a convulsive, .violent action of the bowels On the contrary, it invigorates those organs, the stomach and the entire system. As a means of curing and preventing malarial fe­ vers , no medicine can compare with it, and it remedies nervous debility, rheumatism, kidney and bladder inactivity, and other inorganic ali­ ments. THEY who are very indulgent to themselves seldom have any considera­ tion for others. GERMANY has 28,000 miles of under­ ground telegraph wires and France 7,200, all in successful operation. Every Woman Knows Them* The human body is much like a good clock or watch in its movements; if one goes too slow or too fast, so follow all the others, and bad time results; if one organ or set of organs works imperfectly, perversion of functional effort of all the organs is sure to follow. 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LANES not under the horse's feet. Address Brewster's Safety Rein Holder, Holly, Mich. OKTHFL PI* *•'--Y r i m 1 ] I fnnl TiTflHTlFDV •" "d o«k«r uihimMta, WUIVUU » SirrL* CO., Box IS, Key W«t, Florife. . ••-- • -- • - y MKMMiBCEKCES OF PUBIlfLJERis . tftw BT BEX: PJCRLEY POORK. - In the Grant-Greely campaign of '72, grave complaint was made that Demo­ cratic speeches were being mailed nnder Republican franks. A formal investi­ gation took place, and the Senate com­ mittee on contingent expenses, after grave and solemn investigation, fonnd that a number of thousands of speeches of various Senators were sent to a lady to be folded and put in envelopes. She innocently did her work promiscuously, piled them all into one heap, and then carefully counted out the number for each. Imagine Chandler proudly franking Blair's anti-Ku-Klux speech and Schurz's attack on the administration to his red-hot Republican supporters in Michigan, while Blair complacently loads the mails for Democrats of his own stamp with Morton's speech, styling him "the political offspring of Schurz," and Schurz meanwhile hurrying off in all directions Conkling's excoriation of himself in the recent debate.1 Think, too, of the effect of Chandlet's scorch­ ing review of the Democratic party and its record npon a "dyed-in-the-wool!" Jeff Davis Democrat of southern Mis­ souri! An attack of cholera is a feeble comparison, and it made as much fuss as swapping a couple of thousand babies. The recent death of Mr. Ovfrens, at his country home hear Baltimore, re­ minds me that the Monumental City has a reputation for the developement and maintenance of dramatic talent. That city was the home of the older Booth, and the birthplace of Junius Brutus, John Wilkes, and Edwin Booth, John Sleeper C-larke, the Bateman Sis­ ters, and many other celebrities of the dramatic profession. Mr. Owens, who was a native of Philadelphia, came early in life to Baltimore city, and. there be­ gan his professional career, which was eminently successful in every point of view. For many years, during the struggle of dramatic entertainment for recognition at the hands of the respect­ able portion of the community, he was proprietor of Peale's Baltimore Museum. This institution, like the celebrated Peale's Museum of Phila­ delphia, had long been established in public favor, but the taste for exhibi­ tions of the kind having waned to a cer­ tain extent, it became necessary to stimulate attendance by some evening entertainment. Mr. Owens developed wonderfully his own versatile dramatic talent while proprietor of the museum, and brought out many of the most eminent actors of the day, upon its boards, among whom I may name Joseph Jefferson and Mrs. D. P. Bowers, the husband of whom was for a long time stage manager. Mr. Owens was justly regarded as the legitimate successor to the inimitable Burton in his line of comedy characters. For many years he confined himself to the performance of the class of char­ acters furnished by the old comedies and farces representative of the humors of English life, introduced and made familiar to the play-going public by Mr. Burton; and although Mr. Owens was of different build, and with a facial ex­ pression entirely foreign to that of Bur­ ton, his spirited adaptation gave a peculiarity to representations already familiar that added new zest to the pub­ lic enjoyment of them. His "Paul Pry" had always been regarded as one of the best and most laughter-exciting delinea­ tions of that master piece of poor John Poole upon the stage. To success as an actor Mr, Owens added enterprise as a manager, and brought out, not merelylevery new piece that appeared to be stamped by public approval elsewhere, but quite a number of new plays exhibiting the dromatic talent of the community in which he lived. At one time he conceived the idea, not new to comedians, that he was equally well adapted to tragedy, and essayed to perform the character of "liichard III.," so familiar to the fellow- citizens of the then living Booth, the result of which no one could successfully portray but himself. There is, however, an element of pathos in the character of the true hu­ morist which he possessed in a remark­ able degree, and it found expression in the dramatizations of Dickens and other pathetic stories. In such characters as Caleb Plummer, John Unit, and Grimaldi, Mr. Owens touched the sen­ sibilities of our nature as thoroughly as he did our sense of humor in his comedy parts, or the still broader farces into which he threw the whole force of his extraordinary animal spirit a Owens was at pleasure either with a very young or a very old man. He could be a romp or a feeble centenarian with equal truthfulness to nature, and there were peculiarities of gait and face that en­ abled him to make some characters his own above that of any actor now on the stage, an example of which one found in Solon Shingle. Not essentially a comic character, this old countryman produced all the effect of the best comedy by his absolute truthfulness to nature. Mr. Owens had evidently studied him at the county seat of Balti­ more county, near which he resided. The peculiarities of Solon Shingle were those which may be observed among some of the unlettered countrymen of the old school in Maryland, somewhat exaggerated, of, course, during court day at almost any of the county towns in that Stike. The true secret of Mr. Owens' success in parts not strictly comic resulted from his close study of nature. One invariable thought, while looking at one of these impersonations, that he had seen the character in real life, and nothing more thoroughly im­ presses an observer than thus to see an actor hold the "mirror up to nature." Prominent among the "steals" during and after the war at Washington was the Bureau of Cotton Claims, familiarly known at the Treasury Department as the Bureau of Cotton Thieves. The most extraordinary feature of this bureau was, that nearly every man con­ nected with it went in poor, and sud­ denly got rich enough to buy real estate, build fine houses, and live like a nabob. A well-known hanger-on at the Capitol, who went into that Bureau of Cotton Thieves in debt to his landlady for a month's board, came out in less thah two years with $61,000 in his pocket. And "he was not a very smart man, either. An ex-member of Congress, who had established himself as a claim agent at Washington, got hold of what was known at New Orleans as the Cleve­ land claim, involving between $300,000 and §400,000. He received, it was said, $130,000 in fees for putting it through that august tribunal, the Court of Claims, and although the matter wa^ subsequently investigated by the De­ partment of Justice, he could not be made t o disgorge. Having the privileg< • of the floor, he looked after his matters so well, and invested his accumulations so judiciously, that he became a mil­ lionaire, and then he died. IT maj be that the answer to the poor •ervaat-girl may findaxesponaeiaother hearts. Some one said to her, "Well, Mary, I hear you left your old place. Where do you live now?" She replied with a pleasant smile, "Please, marm, I don't live nowhere now--Fm mar­ ried." A Famous Dresser. Hannah Leone's history has never been told, and as it (jives an interesting page in theatrical history it is worth relating. Hannah many years ago married a worthless fellow named Leone, and after enduring with him for a few years she finally left him and ac­ cepted the position of dresser to Adel­ aide Neilson. Hannah is a short, humpbacked woman, but she has pleas­ ing features and some call her pretty. From the time she first accepted the position with Neilson, up to the time of that talented actress' sad death, Han­ nah performed her duties without ever making a mistake. Her duties as a dresser consisted in packing and un­ packing her mistress' wardrobe and in dressing Neilson for the stage. As Hannah was obliged to know where every article was and at a minute's notice to be able to place her hand npon it, it may be seen that her duties were not only onerous, but that they also re­ quired a great deal of headwork to suc­ cessfully perform. Hannah exercised some strange oc­ cult influence over Neilson, and it is said that that most beautiful but most wayward woman feared and loved no one but her, and that one look from Hannah's clear eyes had more influence over her than the prayers and entreaties of a hundred friends. Certain it is that Neilson loved the quiet little wo­ man, for affcer her (Neilson's) will was read it was found that she had be­ queathed to Hannah Leone the most beautiful and valuable set of jewels of her priceless collection. After Neilson's sad death in Paris Hannah returned to this country and for some time remained in privacy, but in 1882 or 1883 she became Modjeska's dresser, and was with the latter until last fall. Modjeska, like other great actresses, has her pet superstitions. First among them is that if she goes on the stage at the first production of a new piece without rubbing her hand over a hump­ backed person'8 back the play will be a dismal failure. Hannah, on account of her hump, was invaluable to Modjeska, but, owing to some disagreement, she was finally discharged. /.t the production of "Daniela" in New York a short time since, after everything was ready, Modjeska re­ fused to allow the piece to go on unless she could rub her hand over a hump­ backed person's back. The stage-man­ ager was in agony until he happened to espy a humpbacked man in the audi­ ence. The manager quickly had him called upon the stage, and after Mod­ jeska had daintily caressed his hump with the tips of her fingers she con­ sented to make her entrance upon the stage, and the play moved smoothly on. Hannah Leone is a finely-educated woman, speaking three or four different languages, and it is owing alone to the great love she bore Neilson that she has never risen to a higher place in the world. She is living at present in New York, quietly, on one of the up-to\vn streets. She has had many offers from great actresses to enter their service, but has not considered any of them favorably. --New York Star. Moving Grains with Horses. Until a comparatively recent period, says The Telegraph of London, the continents of Europe, Asia, and Amer ica were wholly unprovided with cart horses of the immense stature and bulk with which this country has been fa­ miliar for many generations. When, for instance, the great civil war of 1861 broke out in the United States it was found necessary to link together the railroads running into Baltimore, so that trains might be transferred from one line to another without breaking bulk. Upon many occasions Mr. Gar rett, the chairman of the Baltimore and Ohio Railway, was perplexed by the difficulty of "making connection" be­ tween two lines, until it was suggested to him by an Englishman that half a dozen Clydesdale or Suffolk cart-horses, such as are used at every great station in these islands, would solve the prob­ lem with which he was confronted. The timely advice was taken, and, ever since the close of the American war, English cart-horses of the Clydesdale, Sliire, and Suffolk breeds, but espec­ ially of the two first, have been largely imported into the United States. It was pointed out in 1862 to the Quarter­ master General of the United States army, that a single horse can drag wag­ ons along a railway, of which the com­ bined weight may be counted in scores of tons. The experiment was first made in 1801, when the Surrey Iron railway connecting Wadsworth and Croydon, was laid down. Upon its completion "a bet was made between two gentle­ men that a Clydesdale horse would draw thirty-six tons along the rails for six miles, and that he would start it from a dead pull." To test the ques­ tion, twelve wagons laden with stone, each wagon weighing three tons, were chained together, and a horse was taken promiscuously from the stable of a farmer in the neighborhood. Without the least apparent effort the equine giant drew the chain of wagons to the turnpike at Croydon, a distance of six miles, in one hour and forty minutes. Four more wagons of the same weight were then added to the chain, and fifty laboring men were stuffed inside or upon the top. The horse set off with his burden, the collective weight of which was fifty-five tons, and made the return journey without any symptoms of distress; "and, in truth*" to quote the words of a contemporary chroni­ cler, "there appeared to be scarcely any limitation to the power of his draught." Train Them at Home. There are colleges for females called seminaries, where people send their daughters to get polished. They should be able to teach their children good breeding at home or give up the child- raising experiment, it seems to me. The seminar}' system of rubbing down their scholars grinds them down pretty smooth, but unless the sparkle is deep- set it is in danger of giving out before the polishing is complete. Parents who nave sent their daughters to semi­ naries to be so polished as to be calcu­ lated to shine only in a sumptuously furnished parlor are the ones who can't understand why young men prefer to go it alone, and can afford to spend their money playing pool rather than get married to one of their scintillating jewels. The reason is because young men can't afford to furnish the setting required for such costly ornaments, and by the time they become prepared to stand the cost the jewels are faded or are lost.--Philadelphia Call. IN England at the time of King Ed­ ward, 1327, there were three written languages in use, Latin, French, and English. BILL NYE Preparing • Political Speech ta Adnncs tar a Time of Meed. ' I have just been preparing a speech for to-morrow evening at our conven­ tion. It is a good speech and will take welL It is also sincere. I will give the outlines of the speech here, so that in case I should die or slip up on a stenographer the basis of my remarks may not perish: Fellow Citizens:1--You have seen fit to renominate me for the office which I have held one term already, viz., mem­ ber of Congress from this district. As you are aware, I am a self-made man. I have carved out my own career from the ground up, as I may say, till to-day I am your nominee for the second time. What we want these days is not so much men of marked ability as candi­ dates, but available, careful, and judi­ cious men. We are too apt to strive for the nomination of brilliant men of pronounced opinions when we must need men who can be easily elected. Of what avail is a man of genius and education and robust brains and earnest convictions if we cannot elect him ? He is simply a sounding brass and a tinkling symbal. Therefore, I would say to the youth of America--could they stand before me to-day--do not strive too hard or strain yourselves by endeavoring to at­ tain some object after you are elected to office. Let your earnest convictions remain dormant. Should a man have convictions these days, let him reserve them for use in his own family. They are not necessary in politics. If a mem­ ber of Congress must have a conviction and earnestly feels as though he could not possibly get along another day with­ out it, let him go to the grand jury and make a clean breast of it. I may say, fellow-citizens, without egotism, that I have been judicious both in the heat of the campaign and in the halls of legislation. I have done nothing that could disrupt the party or weaken our vote in this district. It is better to do nothing than to do things that will be injurious to the interests of the majority. What do you care, gentlemen, for what I said or did in our great session of last winter so long as I came home to vou with a solidified vote for this fall; so long as I have not trodden on the toes of the Irish, the German, the Scandinavian, the prohibitionist, the female-suffragist, the anti-Mormon, or the international-copyright crank ? Let us be frank with each other, fellow-citizen a Do you ask me on my return to you how many speeches my private secretary and the public printer have attached my name to, or how many packages of fly-blown turnip seed I sent to you during the last two years? No!!! # You ask yourselves how is the vote of our party this fall as compared with two years ago? And I answer that not a vote has been mislaid or a ballot erased. I have done nothing and said nothing that a carping constituency could get hold of. Though I was never in Con­ gress before, old members envied me the long, blank, evasive, and irreproach­ able record I have made. No man can say that, even under the stimulating influence of the wine cup, I have given utterance in the last twq years to anything that could be dis­ torted into an opinion. And so to-day I come back to you and find my party harmonious, while others return to their homes to be greeted by a dis­ rupted constituency, ore* whose ruins the ever-alert adversary clambers to success. So I say to you to-night, Mr. Presi dent and gentlemen of the convention, let us leave to the convention the ex pression of what we call earnest con­ victions--convictions that arise up in after years to belt us across the face and eyes. Let injudicious young men talk about that kind of groceries, but the wary, self-made politician who suc­ ceeds does not do that way. It seems odd to me that young men will go on year after year trying to at­ tain distinction by giving utterance to opinions when they can see for them­ selves that we do not want such men for any place whatever, from juryman to congressman. If you examine my record for the last session, for instance, you will not find that I spent the day pounding my desk with an autograph album and filling the air with violent utterances pro or con, and then sat up nights to get myself in­ terviewed by the disturbing elements of the press. No, sir! I am not a disturber, a radical, or a disrupter! At Washington I am a healer, and at home in my own ward I am also a heeler! What America wants to-day is not so much a larger number of high-browed men who will get upon their hind feet and call on heaven to paralyze their right arms before they will do a wrong act, or ask to have their tongues nailed to the ridge-pole of their mouths rather than utter a false or dangerous doc­ trine. That was customary when the country was new and infested with bears; when men carried their guns to church with them and men drank bay rum as a beverage. These remarks made good pieces for boys to speak, but they will not do now. What this country needs is a Congress about PS equally balanced as possible politically, so that when one side walks up and smells of an appro­ priation the other can growl in a low tone of voice, from December till dog- days. In this way, by a pleasing sys­ tem of postponements, previous ques­ tions, points of order;, reference to com­ mittees, laying on the table, and gen­ eral oblivion, a great deal may be evaded, and people at home who do not closely read and remember the Con­ gressional Record will not know who was to blame. Judicial inertness and a gentle air of evasion will do much to prevent party dissension. I have done that way, and I look for the same old majority that we had at the former election. I often wonder if Daniel Webster would have the nerve to get up and talk as freely fibout things now as he used to when things had not reached the present state of perfection. We often hear people ask why we haven't got any Websters in Congress now. I can teil you. They are sat down on long before they get that for along. They are not encouraged to say radical things and split up the vote. I will now close, thanking you for your kind preferment. I will strive, while representing you in Congress, to retain my following, and never, by word or deed, endeavor to win fame or applause there at the expense of votes at home. I care not to be embalmed in the school speakers and declaimers of future ages, provided my tombstone shall bear upon it the simple poetic re­ frain: He got then BILL NYE. Lincoln as a "Military Hero.0 He never took his campaigning seri­ ously. The politicians' habit of glori­ fying the petty incidents of a candi­ date's life always seemed absurd to him, and in his speech, made in 1848, ridiculing the effort on the part of General Cass's friends to draw some political advantage from that gentle­ man's respectable but obscure services on the frontier in the war with Great Britain, he estopped any future eulo­ gist from painting his own military achievements in too lively colors. "Did you know, Mr. Speaker," he said, "I am a military hero ? In the days of the Black Hawk war I fought, bled, and came away. I was not at Still- man's defeat, but I was about as near it as General Cass was to Hull's sur­ render; and, like him, I saw the place very soon afterward. It is quite cer­ tain I did not break my sword, for I had none to break, but I bent my musket pretty badly on one occasion. If General Cass went in advance of me picking whortleberries, I guess I sur­ passed him in charges on tbe wild onions. If he saw any live fighting IndiaDs it was more than I did, but I had a good many bloody struggles with the mosquitoes; and although I never fainted from loss of blood, 1 can truly say I was often very hungry. Mr. Speaker, if ever I should conclude to doff whatever our Democratic friends may suppose there is of black-cockade Federalism about me, and thereupon they shall take me up as their candi­ date for the Presidency, I propose that they shall not make fun of me, as they have of General Cass, by attempting to write me into a military hero."-- NUvlay and Hay's Life of JAncob^ Tests for Butterine. ; There is no way of telling good btit- terine, costing at wholesale eighteen cents a pound, from the bad butter at twenty-eight cents a pound, unless the microscope is used. In cheap grades of oleo it is sufficient to put a little on the stove, when the smell of burning tallow will become evident; but good butterine does not betray itself. 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"ROUGH on Bile Pills." little, but good. lOe, 21O. "Bough on Itch" cures humors, eruptions, tettec. "Bough on Worms." Sure cure. 25c. "Rough on Pain" Plaster, porosed, lOe. Best. oNlii MADE in (iiiffcblc Stocks, Relia- b.e information furnished. C. (>. ( OX & CO.. 164 Now Insurance Building, Milwaukee, Wis. M OPIUM PATENTS Morphine Habit Cured In lO lo 2U days. No pay till cured. Ur. J. Stephens, Lebanon,OUto. ; J „J f £.„ij March April May Are the months in which to purify your blood, and for this purpose there is no medicine equal to Hood's Sarsaparilla. It purifies, vitalizes, and enriches the blood, removing all trace of scrofula or other dis­ ease . It creates an appetite, and imparts new strength and vigor to the whole body, It is the ideal spring medicine. Try it. "I have been troubled with poor appetite, and also had rheumatism. I took Hood's Saraaparilla, and now my appetite is the best, and rheumatism has left me." C. AUENS, 3704 Emerald Avenue,Chicago, III. Hood's Sarsaparilla "I have been in poor health several years, suffering from indigestion, restlessness in the night, and in the morning 1 would get up with a very tired feeling. After taking only a part of the first bottle of Hood's • Sarsaparilla, 1 could rest well all nixht and feel re­ freshed when I woke up. I must say that Hood's Barsaparilla is all it is recommended to be." Mas. 11. D. WINASS, 210 East Masoh Street. Jackson. Mich. -Hood's Sarsaparilla has been onr leading blood medicine. It gives good satisfaction, and we feel safe to recommend it to our customers." BAUEB & CUBTIS, '«5 S. Division Street, Grand Rapids, Mich. Hood's Sarsaparilla is prepared from Sarsaparifla, Dandelion, Mandrake, Dock, Pipaiaaewa, and other well-known and valuable vegetable remedies. The combination, proportion, and preparation are pe­ culiar to Hood's Sarsaparilla, giving it curative power not possessed by other medicines. It effects remark­ able cures where others fail. "Last spring I was troubled with boil*, caused by my blood being out of order. Two bottlse of Hood'a Sarsaparilla cured me, and I recommend It eis." J. SCHOCH, Peoria, 111. ( Best Spring Medicine "During the spring and summer I was troubled with biliousness and loss of appetite. I was advised to try Hood's Sarsaparilla, and did so with the best results. I have recommended it to a prrat many of my cus­ tomers, to whom it has given entire satisfaction." K. B. NOWLAND, Druggist, Indianapolis, Ind. "My daughter had been ailing some time with gen­ eral debility, and Hood's Sarsaparilla was recom­ mended to us. After she had taken three bottles ah* was completely cured and built up. It is with great pleasure that I recommend Hood's Sarsaparilla." Bin M. MIRHIKLKKS, Supt. Cincinnati It LnMHI Mail Line Co., Cincinnati. Hood's Sarsaparilla Sold by all draggista. $1; aix for$S. Prepared by C. I. HOOD it CO., Apothecaries, Lowell, Mass. 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