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iJi THlfttUrT Iimi KJHftKBS. AdTCBtWM of the Aro and -the-World Bi­ cyclist in th« Celestial Kmptra. Taken all in all my ttip through China was about the toughest bit of ex­ perience on the whole Journey around the world on a bicycle, writes Ujrites Stevens, the cyclist. Nothing is more certain than that I should have per- , iahed at the hands of some howling city mob in the interior except for the good services of tbe yameni runners, under whose proteotion I traveled dur- • ing the last tiro weeka I was in the country* The yameni runners of China corre­ spond to the zaptiehs of Turkey and the sowars of Persia, Afghanistan, and other Central Asian countres. At- i tached to the government of every city , or district are a certain number of these ^ yameni runners. Their duty is tocarry ; dispatches, convey prisoners, protect property, act as escort, and otherwise obey orders in the service of the man­ darins. The yameni runners wear the ordi­ nary Chinese garments, with the ex­ ception of the coat, which is embel- lished with sundry distinguishing ap- i s pendages. The most prominent of : these, and by^ which the yameni run­ ners may readily be distinguished from : other people as far as he can be seen, are two big white "bull's-eyes," one on his back and the other in front. These round white patches are about eighteen inches in dianiater and are marked with . big red characters which indicate the , district the wearer belongs to. The real object of these large disks of white is to form a fitting ground­ work for the conspicuous display of the characters. The European resi­ dences of the treaty ports, however, ' facetiously call them "bull's-eyes," and account for their adoption as follows; A. Chinese soldier can never, under any circumstances, bit the bull's eye of a target. Observing this, and in their egotism believing that what the celes­ tial warriors couldn't do the soldiers of no other country could, the authorities conoeived the idea of attaching bull's- eyes, front and rear, to the yameni run­ ners, so that, in case of war, if the sol­ diers fired at them they would be sure to miBs their mark. Whatever the explanation, a squad of yameni runners drawn up in line present to the foreigner a very gro­ tesque and amusing spectacle. Look­ ing at them from front or rear, they present the appearance Of a row of hu­ man targets, with big, white bull's- eyes in the center. At the back the long dangling cue severs the white disk in half with a black streak. The first time I was favored with an escort of yameni runners was at the , city of Ta*ho, a place of some impor­ tance in the Province of Kiang-tsi .The mandarin at Ta-ho sent an escort of two with me to guide me to tbe next city, a day's march distance. This city was Kin-ngan-foo, and in its narrow, ; crowded streets, by hurrying me along the nearest way to the yamen, or offi­ cial quarter, the two yameni runners rescued me from an infuriated mob, bent on the diabolical purpose of burn­ ing me alive. As I wheeled slowly through the gate of .the high brick wall that sur- > rounded the city of Ta-ho, trotting along ahead of me was a slim young yameni runner with a short bamboo spear. He was bareheaded, bare footed, and barelegged. In the pov> erty of his apparel and the all-around contempt of personal appearance and cleanliness one could plainly read the total absence of individual ambition. In striking contrast to him was the dandified individual who brought up the rear, about ten paces behind the bi­ cycle. He likewise was a yameni run ner, but of superior rank. Instead of a bamboo spear with a rusty head, he carried an oiled-paper parasol, a bright red article, ornamented with blue char­ acters and gold-gilt Chinese ladies- golden lilies with tiny feet. Besides this elaborate article he re joiced in the possession of both hat and shoes. As soon as we got well away from the walls of Ta-ho, however, he pulled off these latter articles, and, giv­ ing them to his comrade to carry, V..a, trotted along behind me in his bare feet ; Borrowers or Lenders. In borrowing' or lending men may often change their positions, according to the ups and downs of life. The bor­ rower of to-day may be the lender of to-morrow. The lender of to-day be­ comes a borrower bye and bye., By this change of position the pleasure and pain of borrowing and lending are distributed pretty equally among men. It is pleasant to borrow, painful to lend. In the first place, something is attained for nothing, which is the highest aim of man in life. The lender, in the second place, puts forth without any return, and this is painful. To pay back the borrower always finds against the grain, while the lender is overjoyed to be repaid. Thus the groat law of compensation shows itself even in this matter. The genuino borrower, a great one of the great race, never pays back, and, indeed, his superiority to the lender is so manifest that payment is not ex­ pected of him. The publio look with admiration upon these borrowers, while there is but little sympathy for the lender who "goes broke." He is "a chump," or peradventure, a "sucker." The borrower would ap­ pear to be the broader man, the more trustful in human nature, while the mere fact that a man can lend means he has been selfish. He is regarded as the borrowers legitimate prey as a punishment for his criminal cumula- tiveness. The borrower has the sub- lime effrontery of superiority. He •*" swoops upon the lender for his tribute as the feudal barons came down upon the peasantry for theirs. Very little sympathy is wasted by the public upon the man who has been confidenced. He has given unwillingly his lawful tribute to his superior--the borrower. The borrower represents, as Lamb said, one-half the communistic idea-- the idea of "What's yours is mine." He. as a general thing, represents "What's mine is my own," though, as a necessity, he must not hoard his loans, else will he Rink to the level of a lender. Every man with his money has his affinity, who must borrow from him. The man who never lends is an anomaly in nature. The^ borrower is, as a general thing a profligate--a jolly, • good-natured fellow. The reverse of "this is true, but the logic which says a man is a borrower because a profligate is false. The brainy ones of the earth have been borrowers; witness that old literary cotori* in Grub street, that were always oscillating between "flush" and "broke." Goldsmith was either in a state of siege by creditors or decked out in garm ents of various hues. Savage was either "setting them up all around" sor else lying abed with his head through a hole in a blanket, his clothes being _^"in hock." Even Shakespeare was a ^b&rrower, and Baoon, when not bor­ rowing, was Ix-ing bribed. And Mi- p-" <. cawber, rare Wilkins, how tba world loves him as the borrower par excel­ lence! Any man can earn by working for it, but to borrow requires genius of the highest order. The bor­ rowers preserve the nation, for they keep the money in tirculatM«.-r£t. Louis Globe-DeinocraL a u <1 Sleetorer. »po: invented a gunpowder which, if it is as successful in actual warfare as it has been in the preliminary experiments, promises to revolutionize the science of international carnage by doing away with heavy artillery altogether. Ordi­ nary gunpowder and gunootton explode by expanding with great force, either simultaneously in all directions or downward, and as a result the guns from which the projectiles are to be forced must be made of metal thick enough and strong enough to resist the power of the expansion. Hence, heavy cannon requiring bulky carriages and great power to move them are absolute requisites to an army using heavy am­ munition in its operations, and tne ar­ tillery has become in many cases a most important branch of the army in the field. Heavy artillery, however, can only be moved s'owly and with great difficulty, and in case of mountainous regions it is almost impossible to make it effective for an invading force on ac­ count of the natural impediments to its progress. The Russian inventor, if his discovery proves to be what it is claimed, has solved the problem of making heavy shells and balls available with­ out the use of weighty and bulky guns. The new explosive, says the New York Times, is called "sleetover," and its composition for the present is a secret known only to the discoverer and tbe war office at St. Petersburg. The peculiarity of the compound is that it explodes by expanding in one direc­ tion only, and that the direction ip which the projectile is to be carried-- forward. No heavy metal gun is re­ quired to resist its expansion, either upward, downward, or on either aide. Its force is expended directly in front, where it has nothing but air to en­ counter, and its explosive power can be made equal, if not superior, to that of gunpowder and gun cotton, so that a projectile can be sent by it as far as by the use of either of these explosives. It is said that an experiment was made with a cardboard tube, and that a heavy projectile was shot from it by means of the "sleetover* without doing material damage to the tube. This ex­ periment, of course, was designed to show how light a material might be used in constructing the "sleetover" guns, and there is no immediate pros­ pect of Russia's arming her artillery with cardboard tubes, but aluminium guns, or tubes, or some other light metal, which can be easily transported on the shoulders of men, are designed for use with the new explosive, and the Russian officers have great faith that they will answer every purpose now served by the heavy artillery of the army. Inventions of Haifa Century. The number of inventions that have been made during the past fifty years is unprecedented in the history of the world. Inventions of benefit to the hu­ man race have been made in all ages since man was created; but looking back for half a hundred years, how many more are crowded into the past fifty than into any other fifty since recorded history! The perfection of the locomo­ tive, and the now world-traversing steamships, the telegraph, the tele* phone, the audiplione, the sewing-ma­ chine, the photograph, chromo-litho- graphic printing-press, the elevator for hotels and other many-storied build­ ings, the cotton-gin and the spinning- jenny, the reaper, the mower, the steam fire engine, the improved process for making steel, the application of chloro­ form and ether to destroy sensibility in painful surgery cases, and BO on through a long catalogue. Nor are we yet done in the field of invention and discovery. The applica­ tion of coal-gas and petroleum to heat­ ing and cooking operations is only trembling on the verge of successful experiment; the introduction of the steam from a great central reservoir to general use for heating and cooking is foreshadowed as among the coming events; the artificial production of but­ ter lias already created a consternation amorg dairymen; the navigation of the air by some device akin to our present balloon would also seem to be prefig­ ured, and the propulsion of machinery by electricity is even now clearly in­ dicated by the march of experimenf. There are some problems we have hitherto deemed impossible; but are the mysteries of even the most improb­ able of them more subtle to grasp than that of the ocean cable or that of the photograph or. the telephone? We talk by cable with an ocean rolling be­ tween ; we speak in our voices to frientU a hundred miles or more from where we articulate before the microphone. Un­ der the blazing sun of July we produce ice by chemical means, rivaling the most solid and crystalline production of na­ ture. Our surgeons graft the skin from one person's arm to the face of another, and it adheres and becomes an integral portion of his body. We make a mile of white printing paper and send it on a spool that a perfecting printing-press unwinds and prints, and delivers to you, folded and counted, many thousands per hour. Of a verity, this is the age of invention, nor has the world reached a stopping-place yet What He Discovered. A handsomely dressod young woman entered a crowded street-car. A long- whiskered old fellow, wearing a dingy slouch hat and a suit of home-spun clothes, got up and said: "Miss, take my seat I don't look as well as these here gentlemen"--nodding at several men--"but I've diskivered that I've got more politeness." The young woman sat down without thanking the old fellow; and, slyly winking at a woman whom she knew, whispered: "How do you like my gallant coun­ try Hoosier? Don't you think that he would cut quite a figure in a dime useum ?" "Miss," said the old fellow with a smile which clearly bespoke his un­ consciousness of the unladylike ridi­ cule, "I b'leve I left my pocketbook thar on that seat. Will you please git upaminite?" The young woman got up. The old fellow sat down, and, stroking his whiskers, remarked: "B'leve I'll just keep on a settin' here, Miss. I stood up so much at the dime museum jest now that I'm sorter tired. I've got a leetle more politeness than these here gentlemen but I have diskivered that I ain't got nigh so much sense."--Arkansaw Traveler. ABOUT 11,000 patriots of the Revo­ lution perished on board the horrible prison-ship Jersey during the F.nglfa^ occupation of New York. TBE KISS OF DEATH. Bbrute* Superstition of Hontenjr cans--The Specter of the Grave. fBan Francisco Chroniole.] One morning after breakfast the writer expressed a wish to stroll into the ancient graveyard attached to the old adobe church of the quaint little Mexican town of San Juan. The old padre, with the kindness and courtesy characteristic of the simple missionary fathers, at once acoeded and accom­ panied the writer, relating as we walked among the graves the brief history of soma who lay quietly beneath. "Here," he observed, with a quiet smile, as he pointed to a grave in the middle of the cemetery, "here is a grave which the simple old Mexican families around here look upon with unusual interest, if not with actual awe." "A murder?" "No, no ! Something much stranger! I have tried to combat the idea, and while I would be addressing the peo­ ple they would say 'Si, si, padre.' They would assent to all I said, but the belief remained, and does remain indel­ ible. "A spirit," he began, "is said to have appeared to every one buried in that grave, and to warn the family when­ ever any of them is about to pass away. "It's appearance, whioh is generally made in the following manner,^is be­ lieved to be uniformlv fatal, being an omen of death to tbose who are so unhappy as to meet with it "When a funeral takes plaoe the spirit is said to watch the person who remains last in the graveyard, over whom it possesses a fascinating influ­ ence. "If the person be a young man the spirit takes the shape of a fascinating female, inspires him with a charmed passion, and exacts a promise that he will meet ber at the graveyard a month from that day. This promise is sealed with a kiss, that communicates adeadly taint to him who complies. "The spirit then disappears. No sooner does the person from whom it received the promise and the kiss pass the boundary of the churchyard than he remembers the history of the spec­ ter. He sinks into despair and insan­ ity and dies. If, on the contrary, the specter appears to a female, it assumes the form of a young man of exceeding elegance and beauty." The padre showed me the grave of a young person about 18 years of age, who was said four months before to have fallen a victim to it "Ten months ago," the father said, "a man gave the promise and took the fatal kiss, and consequently looked upon himself as lost. He took a fever and died, and was buried on the day appointed for the meeting, which was exactly a month after the fatal interview. "Incredible as it may appear, the friends of these two persons solemnly declared to me that the particulars of the interview were repeatedly detailed by the two persons without the slight­ est variation. "There are several< cases of the same kind mentioned, but the two cases al­ luded to are the only ones that came within my personal knowledge. "It appears, however, that the spec- tor does not confine its operations to the graveyard only. There have been in­ stances mentioned of its appcarunce at weddings and social parties, where it never fails to secure its victims by dancing them into pleuritio fevers." On being questioned as to what he might think of such possible occur­ rences, the good father simply smiled and shook his head. ?he Great Wall of China. Of course, we had to go to the great wall of China. Squeezing through the last deep gorge and a deep rift in the solid rock, cut out by ages of rolling wheels and trampling feet, we reach the great, frowning, double-bastioned gate of stone and hard-burned brick, one archway tumbled in. , This was the object of our mission, the great wall of China, built 213 years before our era; built of great slabs of well-hewn stone, laid in regular courses Bome twenty feet high, and then topped out with large, hard-burned bricks filled in with earth, closely paved on the top with more dark, tawny brick, the rampants high and thick and castellated for the use of arma Right and left, the great wall sprang up the mountain side, now straight, now curved, to meet the mountain ridge, turreted each 300 feet, a frowning mass of masonry. No need to tell you of this wall; the books will tell you how it was built to keep the warlike Tartars, out twenty-five feet high by forty thick, 1200 miles long, room on top for six horses to be driven abreast Nor need I tell you that for 1400 years it kept those hordes at bay; nor that, in the main, the material used upon it is just as good and firm and as strong as wheQ put in place. Twelve hundred miles of this gigantic work, built on the rugged, craggy mountain tops, vaulting over gorges, spanning wide streams, netting the river arch­ ways with huge, hard bars of copper, with double gates, with swinging doors and bars set thick with iron armor, a wonder in the world before which the old-time classic seven wonders, all gone now save the Great Pyramid, were toys. The Great Pyramid has 85,000,- 000 cubic feet, the great wall 0,350,000- 000 cubic feet. An engineer in Sew­ ard's party here some years ago gave it as his opinion that the cost of this wall, figuring labor at the same rate, would more than equal that of all the 100,000 miles of railroad in the United States. The material it contains would build a wall six feet high and two feet thick right straight around the globe. Yet this was done in twenty years.--Min­ ing World. How Bees Make Wax. As to how bees make wax, an En­ glish periodical, Murray's Magazine, says it is no more extraneous substance which needs only to be collected for use; it is a bit of individual organic home manufacture. If you exam in a tbe under surface of a cell-building worker, you will find beneath the ab­ domen four pair of white plates pro­ jecting in the incasing ring of this part of the body. These are the wax plates, made from the life blood of the worker. Examine now with a lens one of the hinder legs. You will find that the stoutest joints are very square-shoul­ dered at the hinge, and that the hinge is well over to one side, so that the shoul­ ders form a pair of jaws, which open when the limb is bent, and close when it is straightened. The upper jaw has a row of spines which bite on a plate on the lower jaw. With this apparatus, piercing it with these spines, the worker withdraws a wax plate from its pocket, transfers it to the front legs, and thence to the mouth, where it is laboriously masticated with the salivary secretion. Unless it undergoes this process it lacks the ductility requisite for cell-making. BTBUCK fiLim Tfc* Deadly Poison that Blighted tbe Optic Nerve. 'Hoc heater Union and Advertiser.] Our reporter waa very much a true* with * eOBTersation between two well-known dti- BMM, a short time ago. "1 notice you we*r very strong eye-glaseoa." xea, yes; I am a perfect slave to my nw. glea. li is hard lor me to understand why one s eyesight fails when ail other faculties appear to be in good condition. Even the yuuog appear to lose thoir eyesight" *1 question very much the theory and tbe old oouon that poor light, fine print eta is responsible for it" "it U well you may. If you consult an oculist for eye treauieut, yon Will find he is almost sure to aualvxe the fluid* passed before he WiU oommouco treatment; one once toid me that half of the failing eyesight wai attribut­ able to disease of the kiouevs, because of their inability to expel the uric ani^ from tbe system." "Mow is that?" "1 do not know. He claimed that failing •ye**®11* was oue of the most prominent symptoms of advanced kidney and Bright's disease. * Becoming mors interested oar reporter thought he would carry on investigations .t.ii lurtuer, and called upon an institution where several piomiueut puyaicians are employed, and asked the quesuou: "Why is it that uric acid or kidney poison affects the eyes?" One of them answered, "It does not affect the eyes any more than any other organ. It is one of the symptoms of kidney diseases The system becomes saturated with uric acid, and, as a result, the weakest orgaa is the first to suffer. It may be the lungs, heart, brain, or any other organ; it generally affects |nany of the other organs, aud the person so af­ fected may call it general debility, or prema­ ture old age, when in reality it is but the ef­ fect of uric acid, continually poisoning the system, 'gradually consuming the patient. It is for tins reason our remedy cures so many persona of what are ordinarily called diseases, which in fact are only symptoms. We oora tbe cau-e, and the cause euros the effect" "Then you cure blindness, do you?" "I will say yes, if you wish to put it as broad as that, and yet we are not entitled to the credit When we restore the kidneys to health, they in turn restore the failing eye­ sight Our remedy restores tbe kidneys to a healthy action, aud they cause the cure, and so it is with many of the diseases that we cure, which in reality are but symp­ toms. For instanos, N. K Sparks, of Roches­ ter, says, 'I had lost the use of one eve, and tbe other was rapidly failing, caused by im­ pure blood. I took Warner's safe cure to pu­ rify my blood. Hardly expected it to restore my eyesight, but it has done so.' W. A. Bargy, of this city, savs, "My little daughter seven years old complained some two years since of inability to see, aud we noticed that she stumbled over things while walking about the bouse. I looked at her eyes and found them almost white. This so alarmed me that I consulted a physician, who said it would be necessary to havo an opera­ tion performed upon them. To this I could not consent, but allowed him to give her sev­ eral treatments. SShe grew worse ami wasted to a mere skeleton, until a doctor more honest than the rest, advised Warner's safe cure, and we began its use. I noticed improve­ ment at once, and gradually she regained her health." Mrs. Emma A. Densniore, Washington, D C., had her eyesight suddenly tail her, so she vas unable, as she says, to read even the largest print, or recognize friends on the street After a few bottles of Warner's safe cure, her eyesight began to return, and con­ tinuing its use, she was completely restored. Uric acid lias a special liking tor the optio nerve, and it is no uncommon thing for the eyesight to begin to fail as the kidney disor­ der advances, while the other organs re­ main in apparent good health for a longer poriod, or until there is a general giving way of the system. Then physicians blandly pronounce the malady general debility, or call a symptom a disease, that was the most prominent before death claimed its victim. They may call it apoplexy, paralysis, con­ sumption, pneumonia, blooa poisoning, impoverished blood, malaria, rheumatism pleurisy--nevertheless, it is kidney disease! all ths same, under another name. "Why all this deception?" "Because the so-called medical fraternity have no preparations that can cure kidney disease, especially when it has become ad­ vanced, aud they are ashamed to acknowl­ edge it, and many of them are too hide­ bound to their code to use a prescription and a specific for the kidneys, because it is ad­ vertised. and theproprietors refuse to expose thoir formula. That is exactly as it is, in as few wordi as I can nive it" "Thanks. Yon have no objection to my publishing this interview?" "None, whatever. We have no secrets here^ except our formula." American Sapphires. Of the corundum or sapphire gens more than fifty have been found at the Jencks Mine, Franklin, N. C., where corundum mining was carried on some years ago, and lias recently been resumed to supply mineral for a grind­ ing or polishing substance. Fully one- half of these were really gems in every sense of the word. Some ruby-red ones were of a fair color. The blue sapphire and some fine vioiet-blue, light red, pink, and yellow sapphires were also found. None of these gems had a higher value than a hundred dol­ lars. -An emerald-green sapphire (Oriental emerald), measuring -4 by '2 by 1| inches, that would furnish from 80 to 100 carat weight of gems, the largest being about ^0 carats of weight, is now in the cabinet of Mr. Clarence S. Bement, with the choicest crystals found at this mine. The gem is one of the rarest known. It will not be cut, however, since its owner prizes it much more highly in its natural state. This locality has also furnished some fair cabochon rubies weighing over one carat. Vernon, N. .)., has furnished some crystals of sapphire and ruby which are brilliant though opaque, thus possessing little commercial value. 'Ihe largest known crystal of sapphire came from the Jencks Mine about 187*2. It weighed <112 pounds, and was both red and blue, ruby and sapphire, in color. It is now in the Shepard collec­ tion at Amherst College, and was con­ siderably injured in the disastrous fire of 1882. liubies and sapphires, always more or less opaque, have been found at many localities in North Carolina and Georgia. The finest sapphires for gems are collected by the miners from the si nice- boxes of the placer mines near Helena, Mont The gems are usually light- green, blue, red, and all the interme­ diate shades. Often they are blue as viewed in one direction, and red when seen in another. Frequently all the colors would assume a red hue by arti­ ficial light, A very interesting piece of jewelry was recently made . from these stones in the form of a crescent. At one end, as seen by daylight, the stones were red, shading to a bluish- red in the center, and finally blue at the other end; but by artificial light the color of all turned red. A few small gems less than one carat in weight have come from the same place that were truly ruby red and sapphire blue. Of the latter color, perfect gems have been found here up to nine carats in weight By artificial light these are intensely brilliant--George F. Kum, in Harper's Magazine. other meat extract The one furnished with ilia extract 1MS flesh more rapidly than the other and died first Beef tea should be prepared as fol­ lows: Cut the beefsteak into fine pieces. Put the chopped meat, without any water, into a amall vessel, which is set into a kettle of warm water. Heat gradually, keeping the water in the ket­ tle above blood heat, but do not allow it to boil. Remove the small vessel containing the meat and the juice which has exaded from it, strain its contents, season and serve. As thus prepared beef tea is somewhat more nutritious than Liebig's extract; still its chief value is to those who need a stimulant and to those for whom a very email amount of food is sufficient Bone consists of a gelatine foaming organic substance aud of mineral salts. Besides, the marrow contains consider­ able fat and a little albumen. About one-third of the bone is organic matter, a large part of which is soluble in boil­ ing water. For this reason bone is valuable in making sonpa. The long bones are not acted upon by water readily unless they first be cut or ground into small pieoes. The bones, of the spine and the ribs make a very nutritions soup, which yields as much as twenty-four per cent, of the weight of the bone in solid matter. Bones should be boiled for several hours in order to get all the food stuffs out of them, \\hen we remember that these soups are also used for the purpose of serving vegetables we may appreciate the real value of bone as a source ©f food.-- American Healthy Homes and Food. A CURIOUS proof that mediseval Eu­ rope had few opportunities for observ­ ing the elephant is shown in the gen­ eral opinion that this animal had no joints in his legs, and therefore could not lie down, but slept standing. ' In one of the very earliest volumes on natural history printed in the English tongue, in the latter part of the six­ teenth century, allusion is made to "the olifawnte that bentieth not the knees," and in a work published nearly a cen­ tury later it is gravely stated that the elephant usually sleeps leaning against a tree, and that the usual method of capturing him was to watch what tree he selected for this purpose and to saw it partially asunder, so that it might break and cause the animal to fall, wiiea he would become an easy prey, aa he could not rise again. Loris B A YD EX, a blind man who died at Worcester, had his sense of touch so developed, that he could tell the de­ nomination of a bank note by feeling it, and in/ weeding a large gefrden he could always d stinguish a young vege- taljle-plant from a weed. Thief Aires tod. The news was received with the ntmost sat­ isfaction by the community that he had ter­ rorized; but tho arrest of a disease that is stealing away a loved aud valued life is an achievement that should inspire heart-felt gratitude. Chilliness, cold extremities, de­ pressed spirits, and extremely miserable sen­ sations, with pale, wan features, are the re­ sults of disordered kidneys and liver. Arrest the cause at onco by taking Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discoverv. It is a purely vegetable; detective, that will ferret out and capture the most subtle lung or blood disor­ der. Druggists. AN orator is 6imply the mouthpiece of an idea. The roosters make the most noise and do all the crowing; but they lay no ®88*» 2 WHEN fragile woman sighs, deploring The charms that quickly fads away, What power, the bloom of henlth restoring, Can check the progress of decay? The only aid that s worth attention. For pftins and ills of Buoli description, Tfojusands ot women gladly mention-- JTis "Pierce's Favorite Prescription." The price of this royal remedv, Dr. Pieroe'a Favorite Prescription, is but one dollar. Spe­ cific for all those chronic ailments and weak­ nesses peculiar to women. The only medi­ cine for BUCII maladies sold by druggists under a positive guaranteo from the manu­ facturers that it will give satisfaction or money refunded See guarantee on bottle wrapper. Large bottles $L Six for "I WISH I was "Why?" "'Cause sugar put into me." a pudding, mamma." I should have lots of OPEN LETTER From Rev. J. Roberts, Pastor First K. K. Church, Fremont, Mich. Rheumatic Syrup Co., Jackson, Mich.: GENTLEMEN--MY daughter Maud has used Hibbard's liheumatic Syrup and Plasters, which you so strongly recommended her to try. It' has now beeu about eleven weeks since she commenced, and her inflammatory rheuniaiinm is nearly broken up. Her limbs were badly swollen, and tho poor girl was in terrible agony. In the midst of the pain we wound the Plasters about her limbs, and, a result, the swelling was reduced and she became qniet and rested The Syrup corrected her indigestion, cleansed the rheumatic poi­ son from her blood, and she is now able to be around tbe house. She still uses the Syrup and Plasters, and will continue to do so until entirely well. We consider Hibbard's Rheu- matio Syrup and Plaster* remedies of great merit REV. J. ROBEBTS, Pastor First M. E. Church. FBEMONT, Mich., Oct 26, 1887. Is This What AOs Ytaf Do you have dull, hoavy headache, obstruc­ tion of the nasal paaaagm, discharge falling from the head into the throa*, sometimes pro- fuse, watery, and acrid; at others, thk*. te­ nacious, mucous, puralenr,. bloody and putrui; eyes weak, watery, and inflamed', rmxing in tne ears, deafness, hacking or conghing to clear tho throat, expectoration of offensive matter, together with sea be from ulcers; voioe changed and nasal twang: breath offensive; smell and teste impaired; »there a sensation of dimness, with mental depression, a hack­ ing cough and general debility? H you have all, or any considerable number or these symptoms, yon are saffbring from Nasal Ca­ tarrh. The more complicated your disease has become, the greater tbe number and di­ versity of symptoms. Xlioaaand* of cases annually, without manifesting half of the above svmptoms, result in consumption, and end in the grave. No disease Is so common, more deceptive and dangerous, or lees under­ stood. or more unsuccessfully treated by phy- siciana The manufacturers of Dr. Sage's , wraedy offer, in good faith, a reward of 9500 for a case of this disease which they cannot cure. The Remedy is sold by drug- gists, at only cents. IT won't be long before the national sir will be "Yankee Boodle." Delicate Children, Narstof Mothers Overworked Men, and for all easM where the tissues are wasting away < tne inability to digfst ordinary food, or from overwork of the brain or body, alt such should teke Scott's Emulsion of Pure Cod Liver Oil with Hypophosphites. "I used the Kmnlal^n on a lady who was delicate and threatened with Eronchitia It put her in e=aoh good health and flesh that I must say jit is ths best Emulsion I ever used."--L, M. D., Hugh's Mills, a a P. W ADDSLX* To MAKE a( long story short--send it to the editor of a newspaper. Scrofula ttftaMrao format disease Is so gissisPytls. tfltated among osr whole population as Senfola. •fcBost every Indivktul has this latent potion eouslag hit veins. The tsrrlMe sufferings en- dared by those afflicted with scrofulous sores cannot be nadsntood by others, and their grati­ tude on Hading a remedy that enres them, aston­ ishes a wen penon. The wonderful power of Hood's Sarsaparilla In eradicating every form of Scrofula has been so clearly and tally demonstrated that It leaves no doubt that It Is the greatest medical discovery of thU generation. It is made by C. I. HOOD & CO., Lowell, Mass., and is sold by all druggists. IOO Doses One Dollar ELY'S CREAM BALM 18 SURE TO CURE COLD IN HEAD QUICKLY. Apply Balm into each nostril. :i.Y BROS., »« GnMwlek St., Jt. Y HAM, Att'y. Washington, D. C. UKMTlON THIS FAVKR inu vtnnu ro ABVMfiiui. #30U31s *rorth # *0 per pound, 1'ettlfs Ejo Salve ^i&MHii" Ki&a* 85 ^ * "°x by <le4lera- P I S O S C U R E F O R C O N S U M P T I 0 N PENSIONS Send for twuton I*ws Claim Agents FITZ<; A I'OWfilX. Indianapolis. >3lis. Ind. HuME (Study. St'curt' a ilusiuexs Education by mail from LIBYANT'S UUSINKSS COLLKUE,Buffalo,N.Y. MENTION THIS PAPKH win vamiu» ro ADTI S250H MOJiTH. Axents wautoi!. 'JO beat s^ll-articles In the world, l HxiiiplePREK. cidresa JAY Bit ON SON, Detroit. Mich. MENTION THIS FAPElt B Jft XC KITO R-8- * *• Patent wr mk I V* Ml I ^ Attorneys,Washington, D.C. • "" • • aa Instructions and opinions -- to patentability FREE. 49*17 years' experieuoe. $5 llENTl to as a day. Buaples worth »1J0, FREE. Lines not under the horse's feet. Write Brewster Safety BeinHoidrrGo., Holly, Mich ENTION THIS FAnta «> SOLDIERS! relieved: *ucre#w i *H*et Pensions, If ^ dlM* blNI; Officers' travel pav, bounty collected; Deserter* relieved; success or no fee. I,nws sent free. &.W. MoCormick It Sen. WukluMii. It. > . * rlvlanlL (k. mailed Or. Willi tms' Indian Plls Olntmeat Is s sure cure lor blind,Meeding or itching piles. Cure guaranteed. IODER'8 PA8T1I rmall. Stnralltdk " own. Mass. AGENTS WANTED ~ .PATTERNS, lor making Rues, ;Tidie». Capx, Mittens, «tc. Ma- ichine Kent t>y mail for St. Send for late reduced price-lint. ' E. ItOSS & CO.. Toledo, Ohio. JONES OT, Dim i--TIM a Iw B»x a STCRRITMSCAL*. PARFRMPRIMAS HARVARD, it seems, distributed $53,- XX) among indigent students last year, tad will distribute $66,006 ~ I •>,< •!-< Liquid Food. Meat extracts are made by boiling lean meat with from eight to ten times its volume of water, removing the in­ soluble parts, fat and albumen, and evaporating to the consistency of a syrup. About thirty pounds of meat yield one pound of extract. All ihe really nutritive parts of the meat are insoluble in water, and are not, there­ fore, present in extract. These prepa­ rations are agreeable in taste and odor, and are valuable stimulants, often im­ proving the appetite, ho that more valuable foods are demanded and di­ gested. As stimulants, they are of great value to the sick, but some other food should also be supplied. A Ger­ man deprived two dogs of all solid food, giving one only water and the THE Spaniards have this proverb: "When mothers-in-law fall out we get at the fam ily facts." "I have been occasionally troubled with Congbs, and in each ciiso have used llrowa's Hro«t«-liiial Troches* wiiicu have never failed, and I must say they aro second to none in the world."--J'tii,e JL May, Cashier, SL Paul, Minn. NEWSPAPERS in reporting yta grotmd rents made by earthquakes generally give the hole particulars. A Letter from the Pastor of the M. E. Chareh. FFEANXUK, OASXAIH^OO., MICH., | Rlioum&tio Syrup Company: DEAR SIBS--Mr. A. A. hast, of this place, furnished me one bottle of your Rheumatic byrup. Have taken about two-thirds of it liefore taking it the slightest change in tbe weather affected me very much. I am now almost entirely free from the awful twinges of rheumatism, and changes in the weather do not affect ma 8. A. LONO, Pastor of Kethodist Church, Franklin, Mich. MRS. PARVENU says her new house has all the modern conveniences, even rheu­ matic tubes. Itching: Plies. Symptoms--Moisture; intense itching and stinging; most at night; worse by scratching. If allowed to continue tumors form, which often bleed and ulcerate, becoming very sore. Bwayne's Ointment stops the itching and bleeding, heals ulceration, and in many cases removes the tumors. It is equally eftioacious in curing all Skin Diseases. Dr. Swayne ft BOH, Proprietors. Philadelphia. Bwayne's Ointment can be obtained of druggists, or by maiL Catarrh Onrad. A clergyman, after years of suffering from that loathsome disease, Catarrh, and vainly toying (.very known remedy, at last found a prescription whioh completely cured and saved him from death. Any sufferer from this dreadful disease sending a self-addressed stamped envelope to Prof. J. A. Lawrence. 212 East Ninth street, New York, will receive tk« recipe free of charge. Consumption Surely Cured. To tho Editor: --Please inform your nadsrs that I have a positive remedy for the above- named disease. By its timely use thousands ot hopeless cases have been permanently cured. I •hall be glad to send two bottles of my remedy FREK to any of your readers who have consump. tion if tney will send me their Express and P. O. address. Respectfully, T. A. SLOCUM. M. C., 1S1 Pearl St, N. Y. 25c. buys a pair of Icon's Patent Heel Stiff- enera, whioh makes a boot or shoe last twioe aa long. j_ Ir afflicted with Sore Eyes, use Or. Iaaao Thompson's Bye Water. Druggists sell it Sba I GURE FITS! When I My cure I do not mean merely to stop them for a time and^then have.them return again. .Imeaaa radical cure. I have made the disease of FITS. KPI- LEPS1T or FALLING 8ICKNK83 a life long study. I warrant my remedy to cure the wont eases. Because others have failed is no reason tor not now receiving s cure. Bend at once for a treatise and a Free Bottle of my infallible remedy. Give Express and lost Office, II. G. KOOT. M. C.. 1H3 Pearl St.. Nwlarib K I D D E R n J b A 8URK CURE FOR INDIGESTION and DYSPEPSIA. FOR CHOLERA INFANTUM. IT WILL CUBE THE MOST AGGRAVATED CASKS. IT WILL STOP VOMITING IN PRBGNANOY. 11 WILL RELIEVE CONSTIPATION. Summer Complaints and Chronic Diarrhea, are the direct results of Imperfect dines tion. E8TYL1N will effect an immediate cure, 'ake DIGEsiTYLUf for all pams and disorders of the stomach; they all come from indigestion. Ask your drugnist for DIGESTYLIN (price $1 per large bottle), if lie dues not have it, send one dollar to as Hid we will send a bottle to you, express prepaid. Do not hesitate to send your money. Our house Is reliable. Established twenty-five yean. W5t F. KIDDEK & CO., Manufacturing; Chrmlats, 83 John St., K.T. MENTION THIS PAPER <r*>» >•»< ro RADWAY'S ST. JACOBS OIL. IT HAS DONS, ReUef.-In any climate at any season ona or two applications of St. Jacobs Oil relievss* Often cares permanently. Thi« U •xpericnce in ten years. : * 'V" " ' -- .••'.v'1; .'i '--The contents ofahoffleliave enTed thousands of extreme chronic cases. Used ao» cordlng^to directions there is a cure ia every I The Twtinony.--Thou#nds of testimo. nials substantiate the above statements in Aa Core of all kinds of painfi^ulinents. -"Jm* Tlw Proof--To make sore of this shdiK ing, answers to inquiries concerning the per­ manency of the cures resulted as follows; That from dale of healing to date of rtxpo&m mery cure ha* remained permattmu mltktut m>, cwrene* of pain. Its Siprenacy. The twenty mnikafBot- ties sold can be justly rated as so many cures; in almost every case a permanent cure. Its price is the surety of eveiy botUe being tha same, eTery bottle being a cure and tbe poor are protected. Bold by DrvfaiMt and Dealer* Ettcywhett. Tha Oarlw i. Togeler Co., Bait*., JBfl^ . Iko yon tee) dnQ. languid, low-spirited, Bfo- tas, and indescribably miserable, both pkjil. "-- ' at cfclly and mentally; experience fullnees or Moating after eating, or of' ness," or emptiness of stomach in tbe morn­ ing, tongue coated, bitter OT bad taste in mouth, irregular appetite, dizziness, frequent headaches, blurred eyesight, "floating specks ** before the eyea nervous prostration or ex­ haustion, irritability, of temper, hot Ouataa alternating with chilly sensations, at -- biting, transient pains nere and there, feet, drowsiness after meals, wakefulnen, or disturbed and unrefreshing sleep, constant, indescribable feeling of dread, or of impend­ ing calamity ? If you have all, or any considerable number of these symptoms, you are suffering from thst most common of American maladies-- Bilious Dyspepsia, or Torpid Liver, associated with Dyspepsia, OT Indigestion. The more complicated your disease has become, the greater the number and diversity of toms. Mo matter what stage it" Dr. Plerec% Golden Radical will subdue ft, it taken according to direc­ tions for a reasonable length of timet. If not red, complications multiply and Constimp- >n or the Lungs, Skin Diseases, Heart Disease, quite liable to set in and, i or later, induce a fatal termination. Dr. Pleree*a Golden Medical Dls» covery acts powerfully upon the Liver, and through that great blood-purifying organ, cleanses the system of all blood-taints and im­ purities, from whatever cause arising. It is equally eOcadous in acting upon tbe Kid­ neys, and other excretory orgaiu^eleaBsing, this wonderful strength. 1 1 medicine has gained great caused powerful, purifying, and in\ cine. Grew Bating Ulcers : its benign influence. celebrity in curing Fever and Ague, Chflto and Fever, Dumb Ague, and kindred disanana. Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Dis­ covery CURES ILL HUMORS, from a common Blotch, or Eruption, to tha worst Scrofula. Salt-rheum, " Ftever-sorts,** Scaly or Bough Skin, in short, all diseases by baa blood aro conquered by thia " ' ' Invigorating mem- rapidly h«2 under Especially haa it mani­ fested its potency in curing Tetter, Kcaema, Erysipelas, Boils, Ourouneles, Sore Byea8crof- ulous Sores and Swellings, Hip-Joint Disease, " White Swellings," Goitre, or Thick Neck, and Enlarged Olanda. Send ten cents in stamps for a large Treatise, with plates, on Skin Diseases, or tbe same for a Treatise on Scrofulous Affectfc "FOR THE BLOOD IS THE Thoroughly cleaoee it by using Dr< Golden Medical Macoveryf digestion, a fair skin, buoyant t strength and bodily health will be CONSUMPTION, which is Scrofala of tfce Ii«naau is arrested and cured by this remedy, if taken ia tha earlier stages of tbe disease. From Its mar­ velous power over tills terribly fatal disease, when first ofTurinj? this now worid-famed ram­ edy to the public. Dr. Pierce thought seriously of calling- it his "CONSUMPTION CURB," but abandoned that name as too restrictive for a mcdicine which, from its wonderful com­ bination of tonic, or strengthening, alterative, or blood-cleansing, anti-bilious, peotoral, and nutritive properties, is unequaled, not onlr as a remedy for Consumption, but for all Chronic Diseases of tbe Liver, Blood, and Lung* For Weak Lungs, 8pttting of Blood, Short­ ness of Breath, Chronic Nasal Oatanrh, Bron­ chitis, Asthma, Severe Coughs, and kindred affections, it is an efficient remedy. for°05 by DrusvMs» ** Bottles Send ten cents in stampsforDr. Pieresfc book on Consumption. Address, fNil's DispHsmr Mnl bnciitiii, OSS Main 81* BCVrALOk If. X. DETECTIVES WaataSlamrr Caaaisr. BmlawSiS aaliiata--Sias iBMrSwntSortfM. Enwrtoaw ail WWII. FMIIMIMI SW>I fewaaaDstsslivsBarsaa C^MAiwUSiaiiusMA1 NORTHERN IlLOW MICE RAIL I LOW mei MiLROuimttt FREE Government LANDS. . Agricultural, araatnc and m- W Pi 08 ^drX f/IDYS 1/lTARRI "\URE^ CATARRH Caa Be Cared. J.Sir; and it isn't necsasary to go to CahfarsJa „ _forida to accompliah it either. 1>R. CAOTf CATAKKH CUIUSia a 8URK spwifle for the cur* The Great Liver and Stomach Remedy For the rare of all disorders of ths 8tomach, Liver, Bowels, Kidneys, Bladder, Nervoua Diseases, Loss £*.. APPetifei, Headache, CosttveneaS. Indigestion. Biliousness, Fever. Inflammation of the Bowels, Hies, and all derangementa of Che internal viscera. inirely vegetable, C-intaininfr no mercury, minerals, rdeleteriouB drugs. *S cent* r 1 x. Sold by all druggists. PERFKt/1 OHIENTION will be accomplished '« Pills. By so doing SICK HEA1>A< lu;. Dyspepsia, Foul Stomach, Bilious­ ness will be avoided, and the food that ia eaten con- tribute its nourisliintr properties for ths support Of the natural waste of tlie body. DYSPEPSIA. DR. RADWAl'8 PILLS are a cure for thia complaint. They restore strength to tli« stomach . - , . - ---- Sad enable it to perform Its func tions. Tlie svmp- ! m-ommended upon its merits. toiDB of Dyspepsia disappear, and with them the liabilits; ot the system to contract disease. T.lte tho medicine according to directions, aud observe what we say in "False and True," respecting diet. A few extracts from the many letters we are oonstaatly re- thi.i terrible disesae. He nssd it ia his general practice tor rears, and NKVKR failed to care. It is compounded now with his own hands to insure pos­ itively that chemically pare. hiKh-Ri ede remedies are used in its manufacture. Your patiencs may bars been exhausted by usiii? some, oa tu, of tbe nos­ trums so liirvrely advertised, but 1st it revive in ths ns > of this, for it is a sure specige. TOO may not bs aflUoted in this regard; if not. please recommend it to souie one who is, and thus confer a favor at bota ends of the Hue. Tbe most obstinate, palnhti and long-ai tag ca-<es readily yield "to its curativjpower.*"fiti r. A. C. Mlddlebrook, Doraville, Os.: *1 use them in my practice and family in preference to all other Pills." Mrs.Caroline Montoith. Deer Creek, Ind.: 1 be­ lieve my life bas been saved by your medicine. Have long been suffering with Dyspepsia and Liver Com­ plaint." H. A. Carr, P. M., Escambia, Ala.: "Best Pills he has ever used." E. Hummel, Boonville, Mo.: "Cured him when all others faded.' „ ' Aliee K. Ohaver. Mt. Storm. W. Va.: "I PMlUvely say that jtadway's are the best Pills I ever bad lor a letter stsmp to DB. RAD WAY a 00„ Ho. Si Warren Bt, Hew York, for 'false and True* So valueless ce^ tificates of cure, no picturing the frightful results ot the disease, or unprofessional clap-trap are used ta increase its sale. Follow directions and It will cure you. otherwise money cheerfully refunded. It is iwrfectlf attte, a^ie -uhte. andnuihrap. piled. (Jne pickage will do the work. Don't deceive yourself or allow others to deceive yon by tellingvou it ia too high priced. St*t'K10t[S gr'ie'-.-a are DKAR at any Alt- llC'lJSS are CHE At* at any I1 rice. Catarrh Cure ia UBN fUXNK, jtifd is times the price.. Sent with full directions. retlra mail7to~any~addresa~in the United StiteiTir&aaadaa. upon receipt of Drujreistsnot allowed tohandls It A. P. CONNOLLY. Sole A*«-nt. *7i Franklin St., CttcSxo, 11. CUH.TL No. WHEN WRITING TO Al lath^suer"' JV" N* v : A ? • • • - Pe you want ths flnaat Flow- en. Vegetables aad per acre M Car raps la year maraar, u4 MU it* hiVwTpJaj!uuun%*iau^ •M v,„. w ,***