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r - " • • ^ • m inmiEB. - Is lapifly Ixsirning the %V«jra dT tfce ? Counlrv. " CDatral4 Free Press.] - "Vhell, Sergeant, Balated Mr. Drin­ ker in ft lively way as he entered the Central Station yesterday to pay .hia .jsjf ?;./ iqpecta to Sergeant Bendal. "Oh, it's yon." x« "Yes, she vhas me. I like to lutlsome folk mit you." w^V^' "Anything wrong J" , "No, sir. Everytings vhas all O. j.f •ah der Yankee says." ; "O. k. you mean. Been away?" . "I vhaa in Cleveland. Yes, air, I go down to Cleveland und come back alone." "And didn't get swindled! "Well, I * declare P "Sergeant, vhas I green as grass? Thas I some idiots? Vhas I crazy? rhas I der greenest Ihitchmans in all Amenta?" ? "I've sometimes thought so, Mr. Dun- "Vhell, maype I vhas green sometime ago, bvft dot vhas all gone. I hav^ to learn der country und der peoples, you know! Maype I vhas not some razors, but I know how to take care of myself shust like a Yankee--ha! ha! ha!" i "You feel pretty jolly," : "Vhell, dot's so! Maype I vhas • Sharper ash a Yankee. Hey?" - "Tell me all about it." "Yhell, pefore I goes avliay eafcrpody \ tells me to look oudt for some confi­ dence man. v I keep dot in mind. Vhen I vhas in Toledo a man comes by me und says: 'She vhas a werry hot day!' I eh pot him for a comfidence man so queek as dot, und I tells him: 'If you doan' fly avhay I'll knock you oafer to last week!' He goes. He finds oudt dot I vhas no haystack." "That was good." "Vhen I goes by der train from To­ ledo a shentleman takes a seat beside me. He vhas an awful nice man, but haf some bad luck. Somepody robs him of $300 in a sleeping-car. Dot makes him dead broke, und maype he doan' get oudt of Cleveland. Vliell, dot vhas too badt, und pooty soon he «»ys he^sliall pawn his diamond pin." "The one you have on?" "Dot vtas she. He buys her in Cal­ ifornia for $600, but if somei>fldfc lend him $30 he can hold it two wee£1P%f he doan' come mit del* money dotjpiu vlias mine." "I see. It's very old." ^ "Old? Vhas dot diamond oldt? It makes no deeference how old he vhas." "Well?" "Vhell, dot secures me und I vhas all right. If I hold $600 he vhill come up and pay me $30. It vhas singular dot he trust me so, but he says he can read my face like some books." "So can I. Did you tell him you lived in Detroit ?" "I--I--maype I said Toledo!" stam­ mered Mr. Dunder. , "I presume so. You wanted that pin lor $30." "Vhell, if he doan' come of course. Pooty soon he goes oudt to shpeak mit der engineer aboudt running so fast, und some ouder man comes in. He vhas a shentlemans, too. He knows me right, away. He says: 'Vhell! vhell! but how vhas you, Mr. Dunder, und did you see my fadder lately ?' His fadder vhas Mr. Hurdlebacker, who owns der First National Bank." "Oh! he does! Goon." "Vhell, his fadder sends him $2,000 by express, but lie doan' get her. He owes a party on der train $40, und if I like to take a check for $50 and lend him $40 he was-so mooch obliged dot he can't keep still." "And you did?" "Doan' I like to make ten dollar? Do Su pelief dot nopoty but a Yankee :es money ? I makes ten dollar by dot check und more as $500 on dot diamond. Greenhorn, eh? Hayseed, eh? Maype I can come in vhen she •> rains--ha! ha! ha!" It took the Sergeant a quarter of an hour to convince Mr. Dunder that he had "let go" again, and when he fully realized it, he said: "Sergeant, gaze by my eve! You vhas right. I vhas so green dot some­ pody shteals off my eve-winkers. I doan' know so much OS cabbages. In der morning " "What?" "Please see dot der papers say dot I vhas an eminent citizen, a great patriot, iind a friend of humanity, und dot I died happy. Farewell, Sergeant! I go hence!" ' Navigation of the St. Lawrence.. If the seaman of the St. Lawrence are exceptionally superstitious even in this superstitious class, they have some justification in the exceptional dangers and eccentricities of these waters. The river just below the Isle d'Orleans is eight miles wide--merely the beginning of the lower St. Lawrence; in the next 150 miles it gradually attains a width of 35 miles at Metis; in another hundred it becomes about 60 miles at La Baie des Sept Isles. As a matter of fact the lower St. Lawrence is an estuary rather than a river. I presume that the gulf may be safely recognized at La Baie des Sept Isles. It is a triangular sea, about 500 miles long from noi-theast to south­ west, and about 350 miles wide from Newfoundland to this bay. The region of the St. Lawrence has such remarka­ ble natural features that even the matter- of-fact reports of the Admiralty are not without interest. The navigation of these waters presents exceptional diffi­ culties ; the existence of numerous islands, reefs, bars, and rocks in the channels; the irregularity of the tides and currents, the severity of the climate especially toward the close of the navi­ gable season; and, above all. the fre­ quent fogs; these are difficulties that may well cause much anxiety, and call for the exercise of all the seaman's vigil­ ance, prudence, and ability. Besides the recorded variations and deviations of the compass, the magnetic attractions of the shores are said to complicate the C&ptain's problems. Ice is often a dangerous element here; in the spring ---May in this latitude and often June also--the entrance and the eastern parts of the gulf are frequently covered with drift ice that besets vessels for many days; icebergs are common there during the summer, and navigation is closed by ice, as a rule, from November 25th to May 1st. Such is the nature of the river that ships often spend more time in sailing up the St. Lawrence than in crossing the Atlantic; generally they require eight or nine days to beat up to Quebec from Bic, 140 miles; they can sail only during the flood, five hours, and then must anchor, unless the wind changes. The clumsy coasting schooners, requir­ ing always a fair wind, sometimes spend a month in going sixty or eighty miles. With so many dangers as I have set forth, the reader might think that the St. Lawrence is not navigable; but thanks to an efficient system of lighting and piloting, these waters are one of the great qpmmer6ial arteries of the contin­ ent; they are frequented during si* moaths of the year by several lines of transatlantic steam-ships, a fleet of Nor­ wegian barks for timber, and a limited number of coasting steamers and schooners.--C. H. Farnham, in Harp­ er's Magazine. A Close Shave. Some eight or nine years ago, four of us were camping for a fortnight, and on the day when the incident I relate oc­ curred, we had all gone out early, and had hunted until past noon without success. On our trip homeward we agreed to separate, two by two, as we have done to-day, spread out widely and surround an immense marsh, whose brushy borders were wont to be a favor­ ite report for the game we were in search of, and we accordingly departed on our respective routes. I had nearly reached the lower end of the marsh, which, by the way, was entirely open, when my companion, who was slightly in advance, beckoned to me, and on my coming up, told me that he had seen a large deer slowly feeding a strip of alders, which reached to a tongue of high ground running out into the marsh, and that if I would wait a few minutes lie would go arouud the further end, and thus one of us would be sure to get a shot. A moment after my <*ompanion bad left me, our separated friend, one of whom was accompanied by his dog, crossed a narrow lagoon in the marsh, about nine pules, giving no indication of having seen me; soon after I ap­ proached the place where the deer had been seen by my friend, and as nothing had occurred to disturb it, I counted confidently on getting a good shot. A low, brushy point covered me until I was within 150 miles of the mound, which was covered with scrub-oaks of a very dense growth, with here and there open spots, where an animal in motion would have to show itself in ascending the ridge. I had approached very slowly and cautiously, and waited for some minutes for sound or motion, but in vain, and had about concluded that the deer had either escaped or laid down, when a slight rustling on the top of the hill attracted my attention, and the next moment I saw faintly through the foliage the unmistakable whisk of a deer's tail; again, a little further on, it was repeated, the same quivering shake of the flag, so familiar to every deer stalker, and catching a quick sight where I supposed the body M as, I fired. My shot was answered by a yell of agony which told too truly its own story, and upon hurrying to the spot, I found the dog of my friend lying dead at the feet of his master. His hand at the moment the fatal shot was fired, had rested upon the animal's head, whose joyful resjionse to the caress of his master had been the cause of his death. It was the wag of the dog's tail and not the deer's that I saw. I was thunderstruck, not at tlio death of the dog, but at the thought of the conse­ quences had my aim been ten inches further to the left! -- Forest and Stream. The TYell-Brought-Up Young Person. There is no one more agreeable at first than the Well-brought-up Person. She may be confounded with, and pass for some time for, the Interesting Per­ son who was referred to in a recent Drawer. There is a general consent that people ought to be interesting in order to make life pleasant, but there is a great deal of inquiry as to how one can become so. It takes the form of a question, What shall I do to be interest­ ing? It would seem at the first blush that it is necessary to be well brought up; but experience teaches us that many persons are interesting who are not well brought up, and that many persons are well brought up who are not interesting. Form is so essential in life, as it is in poetry, that, looked at in one way, noth­ ing can compensate for the lack of good bringing up. The dividing line runs through more social grades than may be suspected. The Drawer was talking with a colored woman on a Louisiana plantation who accounted for the orderly conduct of her family by sayiug that they had been well raised; other colored girls had no bringing up, in fact had brought themselves up, and the result was not satisfactory. We cannot define the qualities that go to make a well-brought-up person, but we always know one when we see her --even at a watering place. She does nothing to offend the sense of pro­ priety, for one thing; but that is a neg­ ative quality, she has, besides, an over considerateness for others, and an air of being in harmony with her surround­ ings. The question, however, some­ times arises whether she ought to be so well brought up as to show it, having, as sometimes happens, a sort of offensive conciousness of it. Is a person, indeed, well brought up when she makes per­ sons in her presence feel that they are not ? There is perhaps a popular error about this phrase, a notion that implies a kind of primness, a colerlessness, a want of enthusiasm, like a procession of girls from Mr. Blimber's school, so that we 8av of a person, "She is brought up within an inch of her life." There seems to be a popular idea that the well- brought-up boy, visible so, is a prig. All virtues can go to excesses, and though we would never lay it down as a maxim, there is a feeling that a person can be too proper, and it is no doubt this subtle recognition of excess in the right direction when we say that a person is too well brought up. Of course that is nonsense, but society is queer, and olten has a covert meaning when it uses as descriptive the phrase, "a well-brought-up person."--Charles Dudley Warner, in Harper's Magazine An Instantaneous Steam Generator. In the novel and remarkably simple boiler of the Serpollet Brothers, of Paris, the water is heated only as fast as used, giving great economy in time of getting up pressure, as well* as what is claimed to be absolute inexplosi- bility. The boiler consists of a heavy steel tube rolled flat until its opening will scarcely admit a hair--the space being only from 1-100 to 1-250 of an inch across--and then coiled into a spiral or left straight, as may be re­ quired. The water is pumped into the heated tube, and is emitted as steam at great preasure. The engine is started by a few strokes on a small hand-pump, and is instantly stopped by shutting off the supply of water. The'speed is gov­ erned by a regulator controlling the supply pump. An experimental form of one horse-power boiler weighs about seventy-five pounds, and has a tube six and one-half feet long and four inches high, vaporizing forty-five pounds of water per hour with only nine pounds of coal. A tricycle has been success­ fully propelled with one of these boilers. --Ark. Traveller. WE ask for long life, but 'tis deep life or grand moments that signify. Let the measure of time be spiritual, not mechanical.--Emerson. F1EKCHLAOTPBBSSBS. CoipuUUop Between City Washerwoman. [Parts letter, in St. John Globe.) The laundresses of Paris are carrying on a Mohican war against their col­ leagues of the suburbs. The latter are in a fair way of having a monopoly of the making up of the soiled linen of the capital; this they are said to be able to win by working cheaper, which is not a fact, and wearing the linen less, which is equally erroneous. George Sands complained that so well was her linen done up that she had to renew it five times a year. She ought to have taken her revenge by patroniz­ ing a hair shirt, she dressed as a man, and that would have been a penance for any little sins at the same time. And to think that Queen Isabella was taxed with extravagance because she possessed two linen chemises. Taking Paris and the suburbs as pos­ sessing a population oi two and a half millions, and assuming 40f. a year to be the laundry bill of each inhabitant, that would represent a total of 100,000,000fr. annually for the laundry industry--the half of which sum is divided between the city and the suburbs. The several monster hotels have an establishment that they support in common where 12 tons oi linen can be handled in a day, and by 150 "male" laundry maids. There are 300 public laundries or lavoirs in Paris, of which 30 are floating castles on the Seine, and 58 in the suburbs, giving employment to 63,158 women, and 10,063 men--the latter are experts at the smoothing iron, and others may say with Mantalini, their "life is one dem'd horrid grind" at the mangle. A floating wash-house pays a river tax of If. per square yard of its bottom per year. It contains 120 placed, represents a capital of 72,000f., nets 41,000f. re­ ceipts, the expenses being 17,000f. Al­ lowing for extra charges, the owners make about 25 per cent, on their capital. Each "place" is let for about 11 francs per day, though taken by the hour; this includes hot alkaline water and other et cetras. The linen is only washed in these establishments, some have drying lofts, but after being pressed by machin­ ery the linen is placed in a centrifugal machine and whisked into dryness; sometimes it is dried by hot air. The duties accomplished, the linen passes into the hands of the makers-up. A laundress earns about 4 francs a day, from 6 in the morning till 8 in the eve­ ning, less one hour for breakfast. They and bakers supply the largest percent­ age of death from consumption. The quarrel is over the petition of the Paris laundries that claim to be sub­ jected to higher taxation, and demand the municipality to strike a uniform bar­ rier or oetro i due of 3 francs per cent, on all made-up linen entering the capital. Likely that will be voted; then the rivals will have att e£6use for laying the difference on their clients as ever, and matters will jog on as usual. Wild Pigs Kill a Jaguar. The wild pigs of South America are known for their ferocity and persistence when once they are enraged. The jaguar is so large and powerful a beast of prey as to be called a tiger by the people of the countries where it is found. A fight between a drove of pigs and one of these tigers brings out all the wild nature there is in both. Such a conflict is re­ ported in a publication entitled "Pio­ neering in South Brazil." One night Lopez and I, who were then alone to­ gether, were camped in the forest when suddenly we heard at a little distance from us a tremendous uproar of grunt­ ing, squeaking, and clacking of tusks. 'Pigs,' said we both. 'Now for a dinner at last.' Snatching up our guns we crept Cautiously toward the sounds, which continued, though •with less uproar than at first, and soon came to the edge of a clearing. Standing upon the extreme summit of an anthillock, about five feet from the ground, was a jaguar, sur­ rounded by perhaps fifty or sixty pigs, all in a state of furious rage, and vainly endeavoring to get at their eu&ny perched on the ant-hill. We did not fire, hoping to obtain our supper with­ out having to waste a shot, for ammuni­ tion was precious. Meantime the jaguar, with his tail stuck well up into the air and with all four legs close together, balancing himself on the ant-hill, kept facing round uneasily, first in one direc­ tion and then another, as the infuriated pigs threatened this side and that side. It was clear that the game could not long be carried on in this fashion; either the pigs would give up the siege as hopeless or the jaguar would get tired of his un­ comfortable position and make a dash to escape. The end, however, came in a manner we did not expect. In a mo­ ment of forgetfulness the tiger allowed his tail, which he had hitherto been holding well up out of the reach of his besiegers, to drop slightly. In a second the unlucky appendage was seized by the pigs; its owner was pulled down from liis jj&rch into their midst, and a terrible battle began. Now and then one conld see the big yellow body of the jaguar surge up above the seething mass of pigs and liis powerful forepaw strik­ ing out deadly blows to right and left, only to sink down again the next in­ stant into the midst of his raging ene­ mies. Presently the uproar began to subside, but the jaguerhadnot emerged from the crowd, and we could see him nowhere. After waiting some little time longer the herd of pigs began to disperse, and the tumfllt being now over we walked into the clearing where the fight had so lately been raging. Still no jaguar was to be seen, but fourteen pigs were lying dead or dying upon the ground. Presently Lopez, stooping down, picked up a fragment of some­ thing and holding it up said: 'Here's the tiger?' It was a bit of the jaguar's skin. He had been literally torn to pieces by the pigs and his body and flesh devoured or carried away by them. From his victims, the dead pigs, we se­ cured our supper and many more meals besides without having to waste a shot." --Fall Mall Gazette. Nothing Is Perfect. Agent (to woman who has bought a bible on installments) -- I've called, ma'am for the monthly payment. Woman--All right; I've got it tied up in a rag for you. I'll fetch it. Agent--You are pleased with the book, of course, ma'am ? Woman--Well, yes; I like the kiwer,' but Tneither me nor the old man are much sot on the readin' matter.--Life. IT is rumored that the real object of the .German expedition for Emin Pasha is the acquisition of territory, the Ger­ mans thinking that that is Stanley's real purpose. TUB Duchess of Marlborough has begun the restoration of Blenheim Palace, and the new roof alone will cost £30,000. . KILRAIN will apply to the Massachu­ setts Legislature to permit him to change his name to Killsullivan. i KHiLxi SCIENCE. A. ^ETAixuBGi^gfoea .aa ,.a reason j why steel will not weld aa readily, as "wrought iron tliafc it is not partially, composed of cinder, as seems to be the case with wrought iron, which assists in forming a fusible allov with the scale of oxidation formed on the surfaoe erf the iron in the furnace. AT the great steel works in Cleveland, a large electric-magnet is used, sua-. pended from a crane, to pick up iron ; or steel bars and billets. It will take up 800 pounds, and, as soon as the elec- > trie current is turned off after moving, \ drop it in the proper place, thus doing; the work of a gang of men. DBBESG a discussion ofthe "lightning- rod question* at the last meeting of the British Association, it was stated that where there are special corroding agencies at work copper is to be pre­ ferred to iron as being less easily ox­ idised, but that in ordinary cases equally good security can be obtained, at much less expense, with iron. The question whether the rods really af­ forded any security was not considered. A WRITER in an English scientific journal says with regard to the practice of putting silver with the other metal when a bell is to be cast: "I once asked a foreman of a well-known bell foundrv whether putting silver in a melting pot was of advantage. He replied, oi great advantage--to the founder, as the silver sinks to the bottom; the founder pours off the copper and tin, and when the silver has cooled, puts it in his pocket." PROF. MORSE, of Salem, Mass., has devised a simple stove for warming rooms by means of solar heat. It con­ sists of a shallow box, having a bottom of corrugated iron and a fjlass top. This device is placed outside the buiWing, so that the sun can shine directly into it. The rays pass through the glass and are absorbed by the metal, heating it to a high temperature and warming the air of the box. The air, which on sunny days rises to a temperature of 90 degrees F., is conveyed into the room which is to be heateu. THE highest the point at which re­ gular meteorological observations are made appears to be in the Andes, in Peru, at a height of 14,300 feet. Har­ vard College has a weather observatory on Mount Lincoln, in Colorado, at a height of 14,297 feet; and part way up the meuntain is another station, 13,500 feet above sea level. The station on Pike's Peak is at an attitude of 14,100 feet. In Europe there are but" two sta­ tions at any considerable height, those being at about 11,000 feet and 10,000 feet respectively. OXE of the boldest engineering schemes brought forward for a long time is that proposed by Major Powell of damming up some of the canyons of the Rocky Mountains, and converting them into immense reservoirs of water, for use in irrigating the plains below, and also serving to regulate the flow of water in the Western tributaries of the Mississippi. These immense ravines, extending far into the heart of the mountains, with their comparatively narrow mouths, offer extraordinary op­ portunities for accomplishing such a work at a small expense, although we think the practical value of such a sys­ tem of reservoir* could only be deter­ mined by actual trial. A Party Way to Talk to a Pore Lene Widder. A weather-beaten woman of melan­ choly and discharged mien sat in front of a drummer on a railroad train. She was - clad in rusty-mourning and her appearance indicated that her loss waa recent.. When near to Chicago . she turned to the drummer and asked: "WThat place are we coming to next?" "Chicago, madam." "Lemma sae; that's in Slinoy, aint it?" "Yes--certainly." "I'd ort to know, but I'd forgot I ben in Illinoy. I buried tny first husband there 'bout twenty years ago." "Indeed?" "Yes; and from Illinoy I went to Ioway. 1 buried my second man out in Ioway, and I ain't been there since. That was - eighteen years ago. Went down to South Carliny from Ioway." "Oh, did you? I've been there." "You hev? Evef been to a place called Black Snake Forka? Koif Well, Hen Dodson lays there." : , % "Who was Mr. Dodson?" ^> .^-v "My third man; and a right sttatft fel­ ler he was. He had a cousin named Hi Daggett, Ever run across Hi ?" "I think not." "You'd know if you had. Ev'rybodjr liked Hi Him and me waa married im I Georgy, and he's buried nine miles froat Atlanty." "Oh, indeed! and do you live in Geergia, now?" "Land, no! Ain't set foot there for more'n a dozen years. I went frocn Georgy away up in Minnesoty, and I met Tom Hixon up there." "Tom Hixon?" "Yes; him and me lived most a year thereafter we were married; then * blamed old white mule we had kicked Tom so fatally that I buried him one cold day under the snow up near St. Paul, and sold off and went out to Kan­ sas, near Atchison, and tuk up a quarter section of land jinin' a real smart maa'a, named Dill." . "And ywy-" . "Yes, I married Dill, aud ita took cLills and fever 'fore three months, and left me a widow 'fore the year was Hut. , I tell you, I've had mighty bad luck." "I should think so." "That's what I have. There was Ben Barber. After me and him was married out in Californy we got along splendid, and was making money fast, when allot a sudden Ben goes head first down a 900-foot shaft, and of course I was * widder 'fore the pore man ever struck bottom." "Then ywi left California.? ; , "Yes; I staid there eight or nine months, and then Bob he wanted to--" "Bob who?" "Oh, Bob White! He waa^Ben's pardner; and he never give me no peace till I married kim. He's buried in the Black Hills." "Great Ctesar!" cried the drummer; "do you make a business of going round the country burying husbands ?" The "widder" put her handkerchief to her eyes and said in keen rebuke: "That's a purty way to talk to a pore lone widder that's got her husband's cawpse in the baggage car ahead a takin' him out to Dakoty to lay him sidd* of of his other kin folks. You'd ort to be 'shamed to be so onfeelin'!"--De­ troit Advertiser. Unfortunate Suggestion. Elderly Maiden (to druggist boy)--: Well, I do declare, if I ain't forgot what I came for! Boy (full of business)---Hair dye? rouge? lotion to remove , freckles?? wrinkle-eradicator ? bottle Blopm of Youth?" Elderly maiden hails a passing street­ c a r . -- L i f e . ; • • • • / ' - y i • ; • if,1'-. >*"*• terCeinty, Mew York. - W Wwm P&uxs, N. Y„ April 10, IMS. I have received mnny letters in refer­ ence to my testimonial, lately published, commending AliX.cocK's FOBOCS PLAS­ TERS. : I cannot spare the time to answer them In writing, therefore would again say, through the press, that I have found AX&COCK'S POROCS PLASTT.RS invalu­ able as chest protectors and shields againfit coughs and colds. Furthermore, I have found AIXCOCK'S PIJASTKRS nn- equaled for pains in side, back, and chest. sNELSON- H. BAKEB.' -- trv^Lengtli af Soldiers* Steps. Among the Continental armies the German soldiers have the longest legs, judging by the length of step. It is 80 centimeters. The step of the French, Austrian, Belgian, Swiss and Swedish is 75 centimeters, and of the Russian 71 centimeters. Thirty centimeters make a foot.--New York Sun. ______________ • Going Down HUI. , _ Ther# ann more way* than one o! hill. Besides rolling over A precipice, rnsh'ng down a toboggan glide and other methods, yon may, it you neglect to rectify au erratic diges­ tion, discipline a rebellious liver r.ul restore a regular habit ot the bowels, rapidly descend an Incline whose bottom is the grave. A failure in Tigor, iupairarnt of appeuta, trouble 1 sleep, loss of flesh and men a\ energy- 1 hose arc tho Infallible indications that shmv decay, and ought to suggest repair. The ti»e«t. surest, pleasantest means of repairing physical energy in Hostetter's Stomach Bitters. Where the mineral ]K>isons and weak appetizers fail, this potent botanie in- Tigorant succeeds. Whether feebleness is the attendant of disease, inherent iu the constitu­ tion, or the companion of convalescence, o ten vary slow after wasting maladies, tlite Bitters has ever proved a reliable means of remedying it, through the medium of improved digestion. The Bitters cure malarial complaints, meoma- tilm, constipation and kidney troubles. ••Eden of America." Many of our readers were delighted with Mr. Folsom's Oregon letter, in our last issue. AH who know of the famous Rogue lllver Valley, in Southern Oregon, say that one looking for a ploasant home--where health, olimate, fruits, freedom from severe cold, cyclones and blizzards, will find no place nearer being perfect. Parties desiring fur­ ther information can address, with atam(K <}. F. BILLINGS, Ashland. Oregon. Catarrh Cored. A clergyman, after years of suffering from that loathsomo disease. Cntarrh. and vainly trying every known remedy, at last found a recipa which completely cured and saved liim from death. Any sufferer from this dreadful disease sendiag a self-addressod stamped envelope to Pi««f. J. A. Lawrence, 88 Warren street. New York City, wiU re­ ceive the recipe free of charge. Free-Tr»4( Price*. 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West of Kansas City and St. Joseph, splen­ did Ditiing Hotels aim located at conven­ ient stations. The completion Of the Col­ orado extension of the ROCK ISLANO system affords the most direct, desirable andjgpNi.Y lino from Chicago through Kansas ana Ne­ braska to Colorado Springs. Dunver and Pueblo, giving choice of routes to and from Halt Lake City. Portland, Los Angeles, Ban Francisco and the Pacific Coast. Tickets via this popular route are on sale at all railway coupon ticket offices in the United States and Canada, where time­ tables. folders, etc.. ean be procured, or ad­ dress E. A. HOLBBOOK. Ct. T. & P. A.. Chicago. A Radical Cure tor Epileptic Fits. To the Editor: Please inform yonr read­ ers that I have a positive remedy for the above named disease which I warrant to cure the worst eases. So strong is my faith in the virtues of this medicine that I will send free a sample bottle and valuable treatise to any sufferer who will give me his P. O. and Express address. 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Crippled, Nervous, Neuralgic, or prontrated with dineatieB may suffer, RUMMY'S READY RELIEF Will Affbril Instant Kas«». INTEltXALLY A halt to a tea*poonful in balf a tumbler of water will iu a few nnnvitt K cure CrampH, SuamuB, Sour Stomach, Nausea,Vnraitilis, Heartburn, Nervousnetw, 81eeple«tt>neHH. Kick Headache, Diarrhea, Colic, Flatulency, and all internal paiu*. Malaria in its various tonus cured and prevented. There i8. not a remedial agent in the world that will cure Fjver and Ague and all other levers once. Lloyd I hare a poaitiwa tboa»«a»(eawio<tt»MiSM srsssr*i! The •hould poated on of good War B*orie«, writtao kr Soldtar'a FanOr ftpeaw be a reader of thia paMtr. I >n_all new law* wTiaiiH-- valuable War History. HM varce tha interact of aoldim. Prioa On e Soldi era Family Faftr, on trial. 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WHEN WRITING TO A0TKKTISIML. plrase ear jraa aaw the adverUaeewae in thfa paper. SALESMEN waited NO EXPKKIKNCK NKCESSAKT. Permanentpoeltlonoxuar-"T".. " anteed. Salary and Expenses Paid. Peculiar advantages to heginnera. Stock complete, including_m^4aK^pelliiwspecialties. Outfit Free. We guarantee wiat we aSmertbe. Writeat -once to BROWN HROTHGBM, Nurserymen, citfcaco, uL (llii* houaa ta mil* We.) •ffx^^»"?JS^SSSSS4!SliSf tgiaiWJSggfeJ:;*' tlon, Catalogue, terms, ote., sent FRBB. Addreaa H. B. BltTJLNT * aOIf.r* Wa recommend tkls college ta«ar readera. Meatiaa IkllMar 'i President's Proclamation QPFPIAI Whereas, Numbers are being stricken down with Rheumatism, wfiich seems to be greatlj on the increase. And Whereas, The nation has within a sharf time been caKed upon to mourn the sudden loss •of many of our public men, «uch as Vice-President Hendricks, Gen. John A. Logan, Sec'y Daniel P. Manning, Gen. McCteltan and many others. Now,Therefore, * 4**, by virtue of the knowl­ edge possessed by me, recommend IIIBBARD'S RHEUMATIC SYRUP to be the greatest medicine in the world for rheumatism and all Blood Diseases. And Further, That this medicine be adopted as a national remedy by all. * HIBBARD'S RHEUMATIC SYRUP, ASwavs in season--Spring. Summer, Antumm «»</ Winter. ^Procure it of your drofgist, or aend direct to us. Price, fijoa; 6 bottles, $5-oa; plasters, a$e. RHEUMATISM CURED. I waa cut in the wrist by a 'broken bottle, mm which I suffered extreme pain. I called >r who pronounced it Scuitic Rheuma- Uv rieht side became tparalyzed, leg d arm oadly withered, and royjomtj were etiff that there was but little action in them. About aix weeks ago I began taking Hib- bard'a Rheumatic Syrup, with marvelous ra- witta. It made me a healthv man. C. 1). Dino, in general groceries, Jackson, Mich. O* O, Den.lo is a man well known in thia wunmuty, ana was probably the worst physically of any man this country ever fW. He was paralyzed trom Rheumatic poison, and ao one ever expected he woold recover, lie is well and it is simply marvelous. FRANK L. SMITH, Ex-Member Legislature, Jackson, Mich. I IT IS POSITIVE! Mv daughter Maud had inflammatory rhem- atism. 1 Icr limbs w ere badly swollen. She was in terrible agony. She has be*.taking Rheumatic Syrup and using voer piaster#, which have broken it up. The Syrup correct­ ed her indigestion, cleansed the rheumatic poi* Son from her blood, and she is now able to ba around the house. Hibbard's Rheumatic Syr­ up and Plasters are remedies of great merit. Rev. J. KoamTS, Pastor First M. E. Church, Fremont, Mich. IT NEVER FAILS. Norenieriies known so hig-hlv endorsed by I Hs home people. Oar Medical Pamphlet, | treating on all Bltxvl and Fuub Bis* eases, "<int free on application. RHEUMATIC SYRUP CO. JACKSON, MICH. 1 G R E A T B L O O O P U R I F I E R COMMON SENSE CURE IM 3olds, Asthma. 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