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>.+.+} k *V .•f h. . . :M J - •*: ' • t>*A '" 7 C* »*«? TT/i>. p <* . kh -;.; , , »» , j- 1 ' T« "rf ,i>i» 1 f,« 4 *$*, 4 *" •f" < . * « •» » '• ^ »» IS* J^,,^ * i ^ rt| jS^**5- *1' j jS l>'«(•»»"? "t „-, »^«< ", »„> HOW TO BE HAFPT. ;'/'•' MM of thn MI»t»kw We Main la Over* W\.:, f looking the Little Thinp of Life. *, [Philadelphia Record.] X ^ W# spread ourselves too much. " f/Whcn one reflects how big the world is •' -> imd how little of it can be monopolized to any single creature's xne, and, I',,'. t further, how endless time is and how is each man's portion, it tends to •\ * Tulip the wings of ambition. What's the J1 *' .txse of having so mncU of this world's water can be preserved or formed into rivers, whichever may be doaUfAV flaw Francisco Chronicle. .\ A Persian William Tel'. '\s In the province of Nnkhehewan there lived a youth renowed for his na- common conrage; his name was De- ! murchy-Oglon, the son of a black- ' smith. Passing one day through the j town bazaar he stopped to listen to the 1 conversation of two Turks who were MET A FEROCIOUS ROBBER. of them is a bur- ' e?tQNinR the liberality with which ropriety of wast­ ing life uutil we bvoome ready to die & Wher^fe therepropriety of wwt- j Kurroglou used to reward every brave - 1 man that entere l his tervice. Ile sa;d j to himself: "My heart is bursting for ' want of action in this town. I must go and serve that warrior, who knows the value of men." He then got up, sad­ dled his horse, and, putting on his ! armor, rode towurl Cliamly-bill. Kurroglou at that time \va<j hunting in getting ready to live? , _ Too much is almost as great a wear- , ' , aness as too little. Has the reader ever considered how muuii comfort, bow touch goodness, how mnch felicity is stored away in little things? A mil­ lionaire friend has told the writer that. ... , , , , , TT , , , , - "when he was making $2.50 a dav, living : ^ , .18 whole band. He looked be- M^ith his wife in two rooms, getting up ;'oro )jlm' atu'» thinking that he f?a»v a Jwith the lark and going to roost with or some other game, put his 1 the chic kens, with no great care ^e to gallop m the dueatiou of an ^whether the market went up or down, ; °"iect *"l°" appeared like a dark spot Jwitli one baby to dandle an l one coat ! ** * d»»tan(;«- It was Demurchy-Oplou. >• ^ *o his back, he was far happier than he ' ho,art thou' 7°™% man» a^w^nce * ' r toAQ wlion Ka/van fn !.«•« ' dOSfc tuOQ COD10 t •was when fortune began to load him Jdowu witli her favors. His cares, de- sires, pleasures and comforts \rerq 1 till heaped up within easy resell. , But stocks and bonds and houses and binds and mines and manufacturing I go to Cliamly- biil. I have heard that Kurroglou, wno live3 there, is a liberal master and knows the value of men. I desire to serve under him.* Kurroglou said in heart: "Finelad this." He then gave soul! I cannot be compressed in bulk like a > 1,'m1 : 8°JU * a,l1..̂ urr tale of ha? or co tton, so as to bring r°s}°^ lhon heard . wa8j ral them within easy compass and over- ^d always ready to give bread away Bight. Tkev hang to the heels of tho ! tho« must also know I only g,ye it - - 1 to the brave; the cowards get nothing from me." By that time Kurroglou's cavalry joined him, and he then said: Li$: owner like the dangling chain of port- . able properiies that the ghost of Jacob | Jtforley dragged after him on his fcuetuorable visit to Ebenezer Scourge. How happy the French peasantry Vfcre on their little farms that have been ^divided and subdivided and divided again as the original owners were • blessed with Jeannettes and Jeacnots .. to follow in their footsteps and till their small holdings! The proof of their content i* in the fact that the poil is made to respond to the demands tnade upon it to keep the wolf from the f door, and to keep the happy owners steadfast to their country. They stay in France, and they are the stay of . ^France, If Americans should not spread themselves over so mueh land • they would be happier and richer. We \vould not have to send to France and Holland for eggs if we had learned to <pare properly for small things and to Icnow their value. It is true of other tarth as Douglas Jerrold wrote of Australian earth, that all one had to ; flo was to "tickle it with a hoe and it • urould laugh a harvest," but unless the tickling be thorough the laugh will be -to sickly one. There are more coziness, more warmth, more home-like friendliness in a small house with small rooms than there is a big house with big rooms. U'he big house bewilders, separates, silences, and subdues its inmates. They . have not the elbow touch of compan­ ionship. They have small opportunity * to cultivate the splendid virtues of Abnegation and accommodation that flourish in narrow quarters. In the * days of the blessed old stage-coach the passengers couid not ride together and f>e jolted against each other and tossed ifront side to side without getting ac­ quainted. People cannot live in little liouses without knowing each other's friends. They are the breeding places «>f friendship and the brooding places ©f love. But one can travel in seclu­ sion in a parlor car or on a steamboat < and live in seclusion in a big house and get misanthropic, melancholy, and full Of megrims. For solid comfort, little liouses, says the writer. They are the • backbone and mainstay, for example, <>f Philadelphia. Little newspapers are growing in fa­ vor, not so much on their own merits as on the demerits of the big newspa­ pers. One turns from those wildernesses Of spread and tenuous dilation to the inodest little newspapers that say their •ay and make an end of it with positive - relief and satisfaction. The area of the world that steam and lightning have brought within hailing distance is so large that the compacted news ie sufficient to the day thereof. To print that should satisfy the soul of the printer. But it does not. The soul of • the reader is not so unreasonable. Little women are the most bewitch­ ing. A little woman's sunshine is sat­ isfying, not overpowing; it just snugly fills the heart, and when she storms the tempest is a prettiness. It is like the dash. of rain and shadow that some- ,times come in summer from a single cloud when the wider landscape basks hi the sunbeams. There are a thousand other little things the praises of which might be •ung, but for to-day little fortunes, lit­ tle farms, little houses, little newspa­ pers, and little women are enough. My children--my souls! here have I haunted down my game." Saying these words he took an apple from his pocket and a ring from his finger. He fixed the ring into the apple and said to De- murchy-Oglou: "Sit down in the Persian mode." Then, turning to his servants, he ordered them to take off the cap from the head of the new­ comer. He then placed the apple on the bare head of the latter and rode aside. He bent his bow and continued to pass one arrow after the other through the ring. Out of the sixty ar­ rows that were shot not one went astray. Kurroglou was glad to see that Demurchy-Oglou did not even once wince or change his countenance. He said: "My souls! my children! who­ ever loves me let him contribute to* ward Demurchy-Oglou's dress and sad­ dle." In an instant the stranger found himself rich, so many things were given him. Kurroglou said: "It is not often that one can get into his service a youth like him.--Chodzko'8 "Persia." Sr. R Making Rain to Order. The remarkable powers and adapta­ bility of the electric current to the Uses of society have been further dem­ onstrated by an invention which has at least the charm of , novelty, This is nothing more nor less than a patent to open the windows of Heaven at the will of man, and Michael Cahill, M. D., of San Francisco, is the inventor. "I expect to see the sage-brush deserts of Nebraska and Nevada under cultivation and affording pasturage for thousands of cattle in a few years," be­ gan the Doctor. "Should the Govern­ ment adopt my patent, by its use there need not be an acre of waste land in the whole continent" "By what extraordinary means do : you intend to tap the clouds and inter­ fere with the laws of nature?" queried the reporter. "Simply by a condenser or captive balloon and an electric cable placed Wherever the rain is required. I have longed believed that rain could be pro­ duced by artificial means, and I have worked at this hobby of mine for sev­ eral years--ever since I left college, in fact. You see,first of all, vapor as it descends, receives heat from the solar rays, which also impels it upward un­ til restricted by the cold. The vesicles, or dewdrops being crowded together, become electrified and float on the air at ail altitude of from 3,000 to 5,000 feet, and all that is required then to Sroduce rain is to intercept the vesicles y artificial means. What I have in- Tented is a condenser of peculiar Bhape and construction, and connected with the earth by an electric cable. When­ ever the vesicle comes in contact with the condenser or current, they are tance traveled will not am0un^0 more broken up ^ the^^ter forced to the j than 33^590 inches. Now for tho total. Tlie Kind of Honey a Nation Will Use. One needs but to stand for a brief time at the marts of trade in countries of varied degrees of civilization, to quickly recognize and understand that the kind of money a country will have and use, depends upon, and will vary with, the extent and variety of its pro­ ductions, the price of its labor, and the rapidity and magnitude of its exchanges; and investigation will further inform him that when mankind, savage, semi- civilized, civilized, or enlightened will find out by experimentation what metal or other instrumentality they will em­ ploy: and that statute law can do little more than recognize and confirm the fact In truth, legislation in respect to money, as is the case in respect to other things, never originates any new idea; "but merely enacts that that which has been found beneficial or prejudicial in many cases, shall be used, limited, or prohibited in all similar cases within its jurisdiction." Thus, in all countries where prices are low, wages small, transactions limited, and exchanges sluggish, nothing more valu­ able can be used as money for effecting the great bulk of the exchanges, than copper; and in countries like Mexico and China, even the copper coin corre­ sponding to the American "cent," the English "half-penny," and the French "sou" is often so disproportionate in point of value to the wants of retail trade, that in the former country it is made more Useful by being halved and quartered, and in the latter is replaced with some even cheaper metal, as iron, or spelter. The wages in all such coun­ tries do not in general exceed twenty to twenty-five cents a day, and the sum of such wages, when represented in money, must be capable of division into as many parts in order to be exchanged for the many daily necessities of an in­ dividual or a family. But with wages at 25 cents per day, the use of coined gold would obviously be impracticable. The equivalent of a day's labor in gold would be too small to be conveniently handled; the equivalent of an hour's labor would be smaller than a pin's head. And in a lesser degree would be the inconvenience of using coined silver for effecting the division of simi­ lar small wages.--Popular Monthly. The Jaw of a Human Biting'. A dyspeptic-looking man who sat at a restaurant table startled me by saying: "Have you an idea how many miles a man's jaw will travel in the course of his life, assuming that he lives to be 70 years of age ?" "Well, I never thought of it," an­ swered a young man who halted in his wild career of beefsteak. The dyspep­ tic man changed his seat and exposed a much soiled piece of paper with some figures on it, which he proceeded to ex­ plain : "For the first ten years a child's jaw will go about fifty-five inches daily, or 200,750 inches in a decade. From his ten to his twentieth year, what with chewing gum, food, and tobacco, he will work his jaw for, say, four hours a day, at an average of one-half an inch per minute; that would make in a day 120 inches, or in ten years 438,000 inches. During this time he will talk about five hours a day, traversing about three-fourths of an iiich a minute with his jaw; that would give in ten years 822,250 inches to be added to our former figures. "For the next forty-five years he will spend sixty minutes a day in eating, when he will open his mouth one-lialf an inch a minute, and seven hours in talking, when he will average five- eighths of an inch; that is, when you figure it out, 5,00S,625 inches. "We now have our man 65 years old. For the last five years his jaw takes a rest. He will eat no more than thirty minutes a day at one-half inch a minute, or 27,345 inches, and in talking the dis­ tance traveled will not amourii ground with great rapidity. The rain will be produced by the law that causes condensation on a window pane. The surface of the glass is covered with microscopic points, and OJ* being chilled, the layer of air next it falls, allowiug the vapor to flow on to the points and thence to the ground." "You will require a gigantic balloon for such a purpose," was suggested. "Oh, no. A condenser of about two hundred feet in diameter will bring Hown something like 25,000,000 gallons a day, and almost as much as would irrigate half the State. The volume of If we add the various sums together we get 6,835,470 inches, and dividing by 63,360, the number of inches in a mile, you find that the maxillary journey is a distance of 107 miles and a fraction." "That is certainly interesting," said the young man. "Have you ever cal­ culated the same lip-trip for a woman?" "My dear boy," came the slow, sad reply, "life is too short"--Philadelphia News. • A GREAT mistake: To hold one's self too high* *0d £»t0 #elf few cheap. Tltet Blood -Curdling Adven tore of Gen. JMm Polk at Night In a Lonely I*iw>. [Youth's Companion.] Among the revolutionary stories which are traditions in the old Polk family of North Carolina is one which will be new to our readers and which prbves that the bor of '76 did not differ very widely from the boy of to- day. The chief of the family in that day was CoL John Polk, who from the first out­ break took an active part in the Bevo- lution. He formed a small company among the neighboring planters, and with them attacked and routed the large l>ody of Tory troops under Sir William Campbell, the last British Governor of North Carolina. He served afterward in every campaign until the surrender of Cornwallis. when he returned to his family with the rank of General. He had four mischievous sons, the eldest of whom was about 16. He fell into the habit of incessantly telling them about the dangers he had seen, prompted to do so by a little pardon­ able vanity and also, no doubt, by the desire to stimulate the courage of the boys. As time wore on, the boys were bored by the many-times-told tales, and one day Charles, the eldest remarked: "I suppose a man's courage depends on his arms." "Not at all," replied the General. "I would meet a foe as coolly without sword or gun as with them, and so would any brtwe man." Charles made no answer. That even­ ing his father was returning from a neighboring plantation through a dark lane, when a masked and cloaked figure leaped out from the hedge and grappled with him. "Your moneyl Your watch!" he de­ manded, fiercely. The General felt for his pistol. He had left it at home. He struggled, but the robber held him as in a visa Sud­ denly he felt the touch of cold steel to his forehead. For the first time in his life a chill of fear crept over him. He was helpless in the grip of the thiel To end here, like a dog, done to death on the highway 1 "Shall 1 shoot?" demanded the high­ wayman. "No, no, no! Here--here!" pulling out his purse and watch, a heavy gold one. an heirloom in the family. When he reached home he found the boys gathered around the fire, and told his story, amid great excitement. "How many robbers were there?" asked Charles. ' "I am ashamed to say there was but one. Bat I acknowledge that I was badly scared. The fellow had the grip of a giant, and there was a murderous gleam in his eve." "Oh, father! father!" exclaimed Charles, handing him the purse and watch, amid shouts of laughter. "You dog!" said the General, joining in the laugh. "But, remember, I was unarmed, and you pointed a loaded pistol nttnv head." "Nothing worse than this," producing bis mother's steel candlestick. Gen. Polk, who enjoyed a joke, was the first to tell the stor.v on himself in the neighborhood, but he always re­ minded his hearers that courage de­ pended largely on circumstances, and that there was a legend that Crosar had been frightened by a train in the dark. Egyptian Funerals. A funeral in Egypt is indeed a strange sight, and the fir^t one the visitor sees astonishes him very much. At the head of the procession marches a certain number of men, who prooeed at a quick _ step, singing a most jubilant air, while swinging them­ selves from right to left Behind them comes the funeral car, or rather a Bort of bier, bearing a great red shawl in which the body is deposited. At the extremity of the bier, on a perch, is placed the turban or the tarboucli of the defunct Two men carry the bier. They follow with such spirit the move­ ment of the head of the procession that the corpse, rocked in every direction, seems to jump under the shawl that shrouds it The women bring up the rear, some on asses, some on foot The first row is formed of weepers, or rather screamers, who send forth toward heaven at each step the shrillest tones. The weepers hold in their hand a hand­ kerchief, with which they are not so­ licitous of wiping their eyes perfectly dry, bat which they pall by two ends behind their head with a gesture that would be desperate if it were not droll. On the arrival at the cemetery they take the dead body from the bier to cast it, just as it is, into the grave. The grand funerals, however, take place with much more solemnity. An im­ portant personage is hardly dead in Egypt before his acquaintances hurry to the house. During one or two day.i they eat and drink at the expense of the dead, or rather his heiis, indulging in the noisiest demonstrations. When the hour of the interment arrives a scene of the wildest character is pro­ duced. The slaves and women of th9 household throw themselves on the oorpse and feign a determination to hinder it from passing the threshold. The lugubrious tragedy is played con­ scientiously; they snatch away the coffin; they belay each other with blows, and the most violent and frightful clamor is heard. At last the procession leaves the house and repairs to the oemetery, preceded by camels loaded with victuals, which are distributed to the poor, hurrying in crowds along the road. All along the roa^l the mourners and friends of the family fight for the honor of carrying the bier for a mom­ ent, and thus it passes or bounds from band to hand, amid the most frightful disorder. The interment ended, every one returns to the house of the dead to recommence festivities. Bnrying a Motiier-in-Law. "Yes," sighed Mrs. Clipperton to her second husband in the cemetery, "I think we had better bury dear mamma here, next to poor George." "George was your first husband, wasn't he?" "Yes." "Well, you'd bsttar not boxy dear mamma there." "Why not?" "Because it will involve the expense of a new tombstone to start with." "I don't see why." "No, I suppose not. Ycu don't real­ ize that the first thing that we'd have to do would be to take down the re- quiescat-in-pace sign. All the neigh­ bors would tumble to it before the fu­ neral was half over; we can't afford to risk our reputations by turning this solemn occasion into a grim, gigantic joke."--Merchant Traveler. ACCOBDING to Mr E. G. Bavenstein, the English foot is used as the standard of length byconntries having 471,000,- 000 inhabitants, the meter by 347,091,- 000 people, * and the Castilian foot by 5,905,000. Denmark and Ivussia are the only countries in continental WEAK AND NERVOUS WOXKK. How Strength of KWTM and Health of Itody Msjr KaiUy Be Obtained. Woiuou groat Hufferore from nervotu- 11a », nervous prostration, *uU ex- itauanou. Tuey 'oroop *ad i»ugu;sh under liou.1 iiul i cans.* and work wluoh never ends. A'l.ry roiiro tired *nd w*ka tired and unre- iruaaed; Uiey are worn oat and exhau*ted in ntrv« tuid viiai power, and have no strength or uuergy. Jtoriui.ataly--and it woald almost wem a dlBj eusiition of Divine Providenoj to ovor- woilceJ humanity--Uare an medicine* which restore tost nerve forces, rebuild u.e weakened sy.-lem and re-eatabliali health, sireugth and energy. Tlieae mudiciuea, which are purely vojjo.able. have beeu combine I mto a wouder- fm remedy known aa Dr. tireeuc'n Nei vura Nerve Tv-nio, which 1a kept bv all dmggiataat 91 ptr bottie. This truly wonderful remedv i* wiibout doubt the greatest discovery of the ceuiury, and ia the beat atreugtheuiug aud in- v goiiitiug remedy ever kuown. ior nervous and physical exliau*ion, wsak, tired aud iauguid feelings, with uo power or ambUioa for exertion, itia ai-overeigu remedy and absolutely certain cure. Iu easos of sleep- lea«u> sd ana nervous irritability iti use will be fodowed by calm reposoaad natural, refresh­ ing a eop. For nervousness, nervous debility, exhausted vitality, despondency and depres­ sion of the mind it is a perfect epoc.iifli For malar a, neuralgia, rheumatism, paralysis, numbuess, trembling and insanity it i« tho only positive and recognized remedy. It never fails to cure nervous and sick headache, weak­ ness and pain in the back and side, palpitation of tho hearr, apoplexy, epileptic fita, hrsforia, St. Vitas' dance, dyspepsia, indication, lose of appetite. con*tinat;on„ biliousness, kidney and liver diseased Other medicines may be offered by drag, but do not be persuaded to tiy uncer­ tainties, when by the use of this wonderful rcme lvvyou can oertainlr be cured. Should your druggist not hav« f)r. Greene's Nervura Nerve ionic, he will get it for you if you insist upon having it Dr. Greene, its discoverer, is the great specialist in the cure of nervous and chronic diseases, and he may be consulted by tho*e using tills remsdf, or by any sufferer from disease, free of charge, sf his office, 85 West 14th si, New York personally or by letter. 8am Jones In Boston. I want to spend a few moments on the foundation of character. We have as a general rule in this gospel-taught land a very poor idea of manhood. Onr best men will get up in exerience meet­ ings and call themselves "poor worms of the dust" You are no worm of the dust. Suppose the next time you go away from home your wife should ad­ dress you a letter in these words, "My dear worm of the dust," and suppose on some of your trips you should inci­ dentally start your letter to your wife, "Aly dear worm." 1 believe in involution a great deal stronger than I do evolution. We are on the upward tendency. I have often wondered if we come by evolution, would nature evolute again, and if she did would it be a boy or a girl? I have had some curiosity on that line myself. I think surely that God made you and me, and I am out of patience with that religious cant goiug about the country singing. "Oh! to be nothing." Suppose as Brother Nothing you should go to heaven. They will be everlastingly running over you, for you can't see anything up there. How can you crown nothing and how can nothing play a harp? i don't know where we get so many of these foolish ideas. A great deal of it has grown onr of our orthodox idea of total de* pi *< >v. I believe that every man, w<'i„„u and child in this country have enough natural innate meanness to damn them, and if any fellow wantB more than that he is very greedy. A man says when I could do good, evil is e^er present. It is so much easier to do wrong than to do right It is eiisier to stay sober than it is to stay drunk. I know because I have tried it. It is much easier to tell the truth than to tell a lie. It is easier to do right than it is to do wrong, and.I ha,ve no pa­ tience with any other theory. A piano gets out of harmony. The man that made that piano can put it in tune. A man can no more put himself in harmony than that piano. The God that made you can put you in harmony with yourself, and set every chord in your nature in perfect tune with the ten commandments, and make every ohord vibrate with music that would charm an angel's ear. If I was seeking the basis of character I believe I would place it on the affections. A man's power to love determines his immor tality. With the affection in complete subjection you have a man who loves everything that is right and hates every- that is wrong.--Boxion Globe. The Whole Story. Ben Jons on lived in the time when poets were not only expected to write all sorts of rhyme for pay, but were generally very glad to get such jobs composing epitaphs for rich men's tombstones, and versified compliments for popular coffee-houses. No doubt, if Longfellow had lived in that day, he would not have had oc­ casion to be angry with the man who should have called upon him, as a cer­ tain salve-peddler once did, with a re­ quest to write a poem in praise of his salve, which he would have printed on slips and circulated in advance to ad' vertise his wares. But even Ben Jonson was some­ times put to his wits' end to get up rhymes in praise of his rich patrons. He was once requested by a young man to write the epitaph of a man who had died and left him, the young man, a large estate. The poet wanted to know what the dead man had done--what he was remarkable for. "Well," said the young man, "I can't aay that he ever did anything." "Did he ever give away money in charity ?" "N-no," said the young aaan; "not that I ever heard of. M Was he reputed to have done any kind acts?" "No." "Just lived, and kept bis money, and died in the same place, eh?" "That wa$ about all. " "How old was he" when he died ?" "Forty-six," said the,young man. "Well, that's something. I suppose there must be an epitaph. Let me see." Jonson paused and wrote a moment. "How will this serve ?" he asked. The young man took the bit of pa­ per, on which Jonson had written: "Here lies a man was bom and cried, Told and forty years, and died t* --YOWWh Companion. A, MAN may transgress as truly by holding his tongue as by speaking un­ advisedly with his lips. How to Rcdnce Tour Expanses. You cab do it easily, and you will not have to deprive yourself of a Miigio comfort; on the contrary, you will e:>joy lifj more tlian ever, tiow can you accomplish this result? Easily; cut down your doctor's bills. When you lose your appetite, and become bilious and constipated, and therefore low-spirited, don't rush oft to the family physician for a prescription, or, on the other hand, wait uutil you are sick abed before doing anything at all; but just go to the druggist's and for twen- ty-live cents get a supply of Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Purgative Pelleta. * Take thera as di­ rected, and our word for it, your unpleasant symptoms will disappear as if by magic, you will have no big doctor's bill to pay, and everybody interested (except tho doctor) will feel happy. MADEIRA balba, planted in boxes and hong behind pirtores, will send out dainty runnerk and entirely wreathe the cords and frames; althoughpreferrin_> strong sun and rich earth, yet tbey will do very well on the most scanty fare. And the oimmon ! ground ivy--the Jill-RO-over-tbe-ground-- | of our childhood's kitchen garden, makes | a very airy, delicate basktet plant. The sweet alyssnm of our mother's flower I borders i< also utilized, and this, like the mignonette, should be planted in the pot where it is oxpee:ed to bloom, as trans- ' planting after the profuse blooming of sum- ' mer they are sure to due. MICHAEL SIMOX, the first .Tew ever chosen for justice in hoot land, has been elected to that office in Glasgow She Conldn't Understand It. "What in the world has happened to you since the last time I saw you?" asked one lady of another when they met on the street the other day; "I can't understand it Then you were pa.e, haggard, and low-spirited, and I remember you said that you hardly cared whether you lived or died. To-day you look ever so much younger, and it is very evident from your beaming face that your low spirits have taken flight." "Yes, indeed," was the reply: "and shall I tell yon what drove them away? It was Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescrip­ tion. I was a martyr to functional derange­ ment until I began taking the 'Preemption.' Now I am as well as I ever was in my lire No woman who suffers as I did, ought to let an hoar pass before procuring this wonderful remedy." A DAKOTA editor got mad at the Post­ master for calling his paper "sscond-tUass natter."--Chicago JournuL A Prize of $100,000 Is a good thing to get, and the man who wins it by superior skill, or by an unexpected turn of iortuue's wheel, is to be congratulated. But he who escapes from the clutches of that dread monster. Consumption, and wins back health and happiness, is far more fortunate. The chances of winning 4100,000 are small, but every consumptive may be ab olutely sure of recovery, if he takes Dr. Pierce's (i iklen Medical Discovery m time. For all scrofulous diseases (consumption is one of them), it is an unfailing remedy. All druggists. AFTER a man agrees to swap off his fame for a piece of court-plaster, he is considerably stack on himself. --Oil City liliizard._ A Michigan Central Railroai Employe Wins His Case After a Seven Years' Contest. ALBION, Mioh., Deo. 20. 1887. While employed a* agent of the Michigan Central Railroad Company at Augusta, Mich , about seven vears a«o, my kidaeys becxuie diseased, and I have been a great sufferer ever niricei Havo consulted tlio leading phy­ sician* of tlm city and Ann Arbor, and ail pronounced my case Bright'* disease. After taking every highly recommended remedy that I ha i knowledge o), to no purpose, and whila snff 'ring under a vorv Fevero attack in October last, began taking liibbard's Rheu­ matic Syrup, ami am to-day a well man. It affords me pleasure to grn.;er suffering hu­ manity any goo I that I can, and iu speaking of the remedy, al ow me to 'say that I think it the greatest innilicinn i 1 the world. E. IJIRZILKRE, Agent M. Q R. R. THEY are prepar.ng for war in the oil regions. At least, tuey are drilling con- Sv*uily.--Texaa (»»{/«. For Rlekets, Marasmus, and Wasting Dis­ orders of Children, Scott's Emulsion of Pure Cod L<ver 0.1 with Hypophosphites is unequal led. The rapidity wltn which children gain flesh and strength upon it ia very wonderful. Read the follow­ ing: "1 have used Scott's Emulsion in cases of Rickets and Marasmus of long standing, and have been more than pleased with the results, as in everv case the improvement waa marked."--J. M. MAIN, M. D., New York. THE rent we make in a borrowed um­ brella looks twioe as big as it really is. The Throat. -- " Brown's Bronchial Trorhtt" act directly on the organs of • the voice. They have an extraordinary effect in all disor Jers of the throat. S C I A T I C A * It is instructive to note from the catalogue of diseases that nine-tenths of fatal cases reach their chronic stage through a stupid indifference to a correct treatment when the system is first assailed. It is easily shown that thousands of lives could be saved. NERVOUS PAINS. Torture.--For instance: SCIATICA, which so sorely afflicts the human family, and which is delined to be neuralgia of the sciatic nerve, rheumatism of the hip-joint, or parts adjoining itjliip gout, pains 111 theloinsand hips, even 111 its mildest form never seizes its prey without due warning. SYMPTOMS. Acote.--Sudden and acute pains in the hip| and loins; redness, swelling, tenderness,! soreness, fever, lameness and sometimes ex-f cruciatmg pains. The disease rapidly develr ops into chronic or inflammatory stage. ^ TREATMKNT. CUM--Rub the parts affected thoroughlv and vigorously with ST. JACOBS Oil: create a burning sensation by the friction of rubbing on the Oil; apply warmth; flannels wrung out in hot water. : r, 13," •-* i ' b. BEAST! Mexican £ i if2' l PENETRATES MUSCLES to tH« V E R Y B O N E S . T R Y I T ! SoU by DrufffiMt and Dmien Jbrruwftwt. THE CHARLES A. VQGELER CO.. Baltimore M. || ON ••hani QUE STUDY.S<>okk"'^^IP*•Bp?toM", IWI, wlHWltPenmonablf hand. ftc„ thoroughly tan . BaTAHT** Bchiskb* on TUB rarsa S htbrnMri. CfarenlaR OUJWI. Buffalo. NX Sven •Bisx •verybody want* the earliest VEGETABLE* and Isrtoit farm eropa and the way to get THEM it to plant •alMr'I !•»<«. MOJOQO aad Plants. 8end SC for SAMPLE ltaMiaOatillll bo. par aad aaeat catalogu® »,«r pubn&hed. ffMII IIHITi Isffiiwi SLL $300 REWARD IHTIAA. IF--O-- mninlminr»a«WtWiini<;«IWBL» Far la A SEEDS 1 LOST MIL r*M 10 Pac*. MOotama . pmawOlFMtn**, *», lh.~f o*r«k •li,ia*«Ui tl«,tfca MIt«*eh, MX* tittMck, utd U«Mxt ]• |1 Mck. If tmi 4.iMiMth*awardna kinnclvaaf krmWtt.xWn, tat T*ar akaaMta r**4 tor •ham pmatralf »oa no w, TO-DAY I C«naUMn taut and Mc. far *Uek tka? wttlmcahn THE CHIMNEY CORNER . Family JaarJall'Varn iniw'ffiJS'aritk J^aal tafaaLacaaaMahsittT safwaatakaaU tetamry Amrlruhei<». All r<pli.amaat k*r*cai**d frnfeost I lima Nama and aidiaana *f wtaaara will k« aoknkad !n tka I»p«T. The akoiepielemaaie awarded akaelawly free. Teancdia the hUwerUel year iaeeey!a Ike yaparetal. Far a* eotlay ef 58 c»*t» to« may get (Ml Deal wait, Write at« waaaasaak. ATIW TLW OhlmaeT Ooraar, 66 Dearborn at. Chicago, IU. GOLD LA worth FFLO per pound, Pettifs Eye Silve $ ,n0>, hut III *ol<l at SS centa a boi by deal era. iUUmON THI8 PAPnt ran warn** n unmam nnts wanted. 90 be«t s»ll- $250x^-1 la tSe world. _1 «anu>le FltEE. I A MONTH. Ann i i n t i e > ITC BKONSON. Detroit. M , MZNTION THIS PAFSa i wamaa (• Amwm FHPF By return mail, T^ALL Description •i Hp PMoo4jF'tN*wTallorS)r»lcm ofDreas lllkhClltUiiK. MOODY * CO.. Cincinnati. O. --mow TW» FA PER wan warn-- «• aaraanaaa*. A OF NT ft M/4/V7TN toaeUNOVKLTY KIO nvemo nnnicu MACUINKS »N.T KUU -PATTERNS, lor making RUSIT, PTtdioH, Caps. Mlttina. etc. Ma- • rliine sent by mail for lit. Send for late rrdtieed pHce-liat. K. KOS8 & CO.. Toledo. Ohio. »• »•»•* ••ear faith we caa ceie yoa, dear alaer, we Mi I mall eaeack teceaetece & a Uvmnmtm * Oa, Hew THB thing that a woman always knows beat ia how some other woman oaght to dress. --Somerville Jon rnal. ROUGH ON PILE& Quick, complete enm 50c. DUCHU-l'AlBA, Groat Kidney Remedy. 91. WELLS' HEALTH UENEWElt for weak men WELLS' HAlIl BALSAM. If gray, gradually restores color; elegant tonic dreading. 50a To Chejreune via the C., B. A Q. R. R. By a recent exteuaion of the Burlington Route, a now, direct and flrat-clasa line is now opened to tho public from Chicago, l'eoria and St Louia to Cheyeuna, Wyom ng TorritoiV Traina, from the points men­ tioned, lor tlio entire distance to Cheyenne are under Burlington Itoute management, the Burlington Imng tho only line with its own track between Chicago, Peoria or St. Louia and Cheyenne. "The Burlington'e Number One" of the Burlington Route fast train eerrice, which leaves Chicago for Den ver via Omaha at noon daily, carries through aleoping cars from Chicago for Cheyenne. This through sleeping car arrives at'Cht>y- enne at midnight of the second day after leaving Chicago, but passengers are allowed to remain in it until breakfast time. The train carrying the Cheyenne sleeper connects with C., 15. & Q. daily trains loarin^ Peoria in the afternoon and St Louia in the morning. Note that tho Burlington liouto is the only linn running aloeping cars from Chicago to CLeyenne wi liout change, and see that your ticket to CUeyenni reads via the C„ B. A Q. R R. It can be-obtained of any coupon ticket agant of its own or connecting lines, or by addressing PAUL IIOBTOM, General Passen­ ger and Ticket Agent U, B. A Q. R. R., Chi­ cago, l!L "BOUGH ON ITCH" Ointment cures 8kin Hu­ mors, Pim pUn, Fieah Worms, Ring Worm, Tetter, Halt Rh'*uin, Frosted Feet, Chilblain*, Itch, Ivy Poison, Barber's Itch. Scald Head,Eczema. 80a Druggists or mail. & £L Wells, Jersey,Oity.N. J. Consumption Horeljr Cored. To the Editor: -Please infnrm your readers that I have a positive remedy for the above- named disease. By ita timely uae thousandiof bopelesa cases have been permanently cured. I shall be glad to send two bottles of my remedy MEK to auy of your readers who have consump­ tion if tney will send uie their Express and P. O. address. Keaptctfullv. T. A. 8LOCUM. M. C.. 181 Pearl St., N. ¥. LADY AGENTS IKrmuient employment at $50 to $IUO par month sellimtQurriKltrKiip. Iiorters. Maniple ontAt tree. Addraaa Ooritmati Suspender Co, UK. Ninth ,-T.. CisK-iunati, O. If IP LkO }2MfSS A ?»£! Fire Anna and apsrttnjv Oaela at I.EBa THANMAN- tPArTlJKKRN' PRICKS. Write forCATALOfttK. firthamGunCo ,«C, -V ' mi I CURE F ITS! When I ear ONCE I do not mean merely to atop them for a time and then have them retain again. I mean a radical cure. I have made the disease of FITS. EM- LEV8V or FALUNG SICKXIOM a llte lonx atady. I wairant my remedy to cure the worat case*. Because othera tiave failed is no reason for not now rect-lvlng a cure. Bend at onoe for a traqiiee and a Free Bottle o( mr infallible remedy. Give szpreea and Post Office. H. A. HOOT, M. C.. 18S Pearl St., New York. NORTHERN PACIFIC II LOW NIG! RAILROAD UIM » FREE Government LANDS. enU LUMK or Man of aaeh in KtnneMta. Worth Montana. Idaho. Washington and Ortfoa. SEIDFOIt S&TJSSFttir draainc and nt Free. Address MENTION lOMCUCNE. RUMS 8Y VI Ceedi ef km beea sawed bv eat au (a • lad ret. hawe aawed 5 aad Seer4* Sail*. "Mtmctlg" •hei «»ei.i Wtrmtt as* WeeJ CWpper waala. Aref enter Sea •ear vMalqr «eesre» tke Agmujr. IllaMraMd CaUlwae PIMM. Address POLDIKO MAWINtt MACHINE CO__ 80S 8. Canal Street, ChlcasoTul. A BUILDING LOT FREE To create a wide-spread tntaasat In the town, the owner of THO town NIT* OF BORDER CITY, in Loe Anffeles County, CAL., HAS authorised at to present to LOOK YOUNG, prevent tendency to wrinkles or ageing of tho skin by using LXAURKLLK OIL. Preserves ayouthful*plump,freab condition of the featurea A transparent alabaster skin, 91. Druggists or sxp. E. & Wells, Jersey City, N.J. Poisoned by Scrofula The taint of scrofula in the blond ab JBI 1 be trot rid Of or eeriona consequences mar result. Consumption Is undoubtedlr scrofula of the ]un s, and in ita early sta ea may be cured BY purifying the blood and building up the aystem. For this Hood's Sarsapirll a la uneqnaled. It a!ao cures acrofula when It appoara In the form of running sores, boils, bunches iu the neck, catarrh, or in any other manner. While it puri- fles. Hood's Sarsaparilla also enriches the blood. *1 have been troubled with acrofula for three yeara having running sores on my leg. After taking one bottle of Hood's Saraaparilla I >N getting well rapid* ly." Asa ELSIL. South Bend, Ind. Hood's Sarsaparilla Bold by all druggiats. $I; six for $3. Preparedanly by C. I. HOOD & CO., Apothecaries, Lowell. Mass. IOO Doses One Dollar every applicant ON'H LOT. 1~> it. by 100, tree and an conditionally. We will xeud a perfect deed to tilt above, with a map at ihe HUte of California, showing the location of Border tlity. a plan of the town, allow­ ing the block, and a pl»t of ihe block, ahowing the exact location of year lot, on receipt of (three dol­ lars) for coat of the deed and acknowledgment, or we will send the same C. O. D.bv expreaa. Kach recipi­ ent will have the option of purchasing one or more additional lots at from 913 to $:ioe. We guarantee a perfect title to every lot sold or given, ana we do not $411 Kearney Street. Ban Frantnsco, CAL. STEKETEE'S DrvBittersI Make your own Bitters Why pay a Dollar for a bottle of Stomach Bitters, oontatnlnc more poor whiskey than medicine, when the undersigned will send you by mail one 4 os. package of ROOTS, HERB8 and BERRIES, whichwill make ONB GALLON of the best TONIC anyone ever used. The use of this Tonic has cured INDIGESTION, DYSPEPSIA, FIVER and AGUE; aaan appetiser none better; acts on the Kidneys and general debility, and gives Tone to the Stomach fin tact I challenge all other Tonics. It is far the cheapest Tonic known. One pack­ age will equal one doeen bottles bf ordinary Bit­ ters sold at Oae Dollar per bottle. Full direc­ tions on every package. Ask your Druggist for "STEKETEE'S DRY BITTERS." IT your drug­ gist doea not keep them on sale, then send to the undersigned. I will send one package to any ad- irees within the U. 6. on receipt of SSETU. S. oman'S peculiar ailments. Aa a powerful* lsvi(orallBf Male. whole system. It imparts and to the The. treatment of many thousands of of those chronic weaknesses and distre ailments peculiar to females, at the Inv Hotel ana Surgioal Institute, Buffalo, has afforded a vast experience IA nicely U ing and thoroughly testing remedies for cure of woman's peculiar maladies. Dr. IMerce's Favorite Prescription Is the outgrowth, or result, of this neat and valuable experience. Thousands of testimo­ nials, received from patients and from physi­ cians who have tested tt in the more aggra­ vated and obstinate cases which bad banted their skill, prove it to be the most wonderful remedy ever devised for the relief and ouve of suffering women. It Is not; cure-all," but as a most woman'I rerfal, IBTIIOI st&ngth to the . womb and Its appendages in particular. For overworked, "worn-out," "run-down," debilitated teachers, milliiicrs, dressmakers, seamstresses, "shop-girls," house­ keepers, nursing mothers, and feeble women generally. Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription is the greatest earthly boon, being unequaled ss an appetising cordial and restorative tonta, As a soothing sad strengthening nervine. "Favorite Prescription" is une-ausled and Is invaluable In allaying and sub-uing nervous excitability, Irritability, ex- haus&on, prostration, hysteria, spssms and other distressing, nervous symptoms com­ monly attendant upon functional and organio disease of the womb. It induces refreshiinr sleep and relievos mental anxiety and da- apondency. Dr. Pie ia compounded Dy an exper physician, and.adapted to woman's delicate rganlzrttia * ' " ' ^ , - Pierce's Favorite Pi ascription legitimate medicine, carefully mded by an experienced and skillful organization, it Is purely vegetable in ita composition and perfectly harmieas In Its effects in any condition of the system. Ko? morning sickness, or nausea, from whatever cause arising, weak stomach, lndigestieu, dya- nepslaand kindred symptoms. Its use, in small dons, will prove very beneficial. « Favorite Prescription *> laa posh tlve care for the most complicated and ob> stinate oases of leucorrbea, excessive flowing, painful menstruation, unnatural suppressions ̂ prolapsus, or falling of the womb, weak back, n female weakness, antevenion. retroversion, bearing-down sensations, chronic congestion. Inflammation and ulceration of the womb, fiammation, pain and tenderness la Oisi lss accompanied with "internal heat." As a regulator and promoter of func­ tional action, at that critical period of c" GEO. O. 8TKKKTKK. Grand Rapids."Mleh. _ JEOTROl Use STEKETEE'S PIN WORM D > curs. Pries IS cents. >YXB, equally efflc* when taken' ments incident 1 period, known ssu The Change of Life.** "Favorite Prescription,** whea taken In connection with the use or Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery, and --««laxative doses of Dr. Pierce's Purgative FteUets fLIttls Liver PilM, mires Liv«r. Kidney sad HfajdSsr diseases. Their combined use alio removes blood taints, and abolishes cancerous sai scrofulous humors from tbe system. " Favorite Prescription ** is the only medicine for women, sold by druggists, ssisr a positive guarantee, from the msnu- facturers, that Tt will give satisfaction In every case, or money will be refunded. This guaran­ tee has been printed on tbe bottle-wrapper, and faithfully carried out tor many years. Larie bottles aoo doses) #1.00, or sis bottles for $5.00. For large, illustrated Treatise on Diseases of Women (100 psges, paper-covered), cents in stamps. Address, Void's Dispustry Meal Associatie% 668 Mala 8U EVEROREENB! All nursery grows, at beats! prices. Largast stock ia Amer­ ica of Norway, W hi ta audH ' ~ ~ * * ista North­ ern Bed Cedar JEnroyeaa lama. White Aah, Maples. fiolbeiTiee Birch ea, ate. we park sad ahip with aafety to all parte of the ,3Utea. Send fnrfreepriee-liat. IUMTION THIS rim ' 7'^f. '*5' ' r v:'; , j-fri V, Vfltyr Well Drills FOR EVERY PUHPOSK SOLD ON TRIAL. Investment email, prof­ its large. Send aOc.for m a i l i n g large lllna- trated Cata­ logue with particulars. Mann factored by GOULDS & AUSTIN, 167 A 169 LAKE ST. CHICAGO. ILLINOIS- PJ£0"S„£,URE -fjOJR'CDNS U M PTI0 N $5 M « N R:< THE easiest way to find oat a girl's age is to ask some other girl. "ROUGH ON RATS," for rats, mice, bnga. 15a. Earo*., ££ moter. t*BoroBoiTQpxuon* Instant rslist 15a PTTTTgTOTTe? Soldier* and Heira. L. BIN® f /VONOXWJCiO HAM. Atfy, Uat.h nBto» X).C. yPNTION THIS PAPER .UR VKITI.i* tu to S8 a dnr. Sample* worth $1-10, FREE, i Unea not nt) tlifi Iiorse'jL feet. Write _ _ ' Brewster H Hem Holder OS., Holly, Mich Mf M .ON THIS PaI'ttl WMB.. . KL) INIT AT IBVKTTLILU. b^gS&TILliHSS Slfc.STION THI» rai.... A I, Fresh, rpliable, only 2 sal 3 cents ]>erlirifo naekssfe. 2 0,000 Novelty l'res'nt^ ior my cua- toiuers. Harii:o<ithl>ee<i Farms! One ai re of aolidglaaa. Beautifu) Illustrated Garden (iuwu niM. . , H. W. Ul CRBKE, Hoekford Seed Farm, Kocfcfortl, IU. % Ely's Cream Balm Gives relief at onoe for COLD In HEAD. - !CURES | - C A T A R R H . Not a Liquid or BnaflL L PAIN Cures Neuralgia, Toothache, Headache, Catarrh, Croup, Sore Throat 'RHEUMATISM, Lane Back, Stiff Joints, Sprains, Bruises, Burns, Wounds, Old Sores and All Aches and Pains. The many testimoniala received bv oa morm "•«» prove all we claim for thia valuable remedy, tt i oaly ralievaa tbe moat aevere paiua. I _ H C«r*s Yoo. Tint's tto lm I SoiiAsrcit&zi firm bmm MM 'Oaosh BMdldae. la mr pnettea la all aadBraacUal troable. Piso s C CONS ?///////////;////, c.v.v. Wi I prescribe arid falls* ea* dorse Ci as the oaly spev'ittc tor tlie c^rMun caiS of thiaiiiseaso. O. H. INt; UAH AM, X K Amsterdam. >. T. Wa si'lil Ki.O many years. iven Uie I and it has of sails* 'dVkIDYCHEACOJ. Ctiu-ago. IU. tl.M. Sold by UrujfgUSb WHEN WUrUiS lO.ADVKKIUOajl Ei&5X£trw9m flTiSwl m- V'VT" & : .V:'" '