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Milledgeville, Ga., Apeil 7, 1885.
Number 39.
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Mr. Bonner lives in Maconund no one
Is better known than lie. Strangers can
rely upon*the statement he makes:
In August, 1881, it was discovered that
my son’s wife was in tile last stages of
consumption. She was coughing inces
santly and at times would discharge quan
tities of pus from her lungs, could not
sleep or retain anything on her stomach,
and we thought it only a question <»f time
when life would tie compelled to give way
to the fell destroyer. Alter all other rem
edies failed, we got
Brewers Lung Restorer,
and began it in very small doses, as she
very weak. She so,,n began to im
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better than .she has ever been before. I
regard lew restoration as nearly a miracle,
for which she is indebte# to Brewer's
Lung Restorer. R. W. BONNER,
Macon, Ga.
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a pure article Is required.
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ark, New Jersey, issued prior to January
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—with a capital of $1,000,000—to which a re
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tion adopted December2d, A. lb, 1879.
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The oat crop is said to be turning
out much better than was expected,
The New York Chamber of Com
merce has elected ex-President Arthur
an honorary member.
No matter what may be said on
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rapidly going on in England and Rus
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' Buy the Farquhar Cotton Planter the
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Legal blanks for sale at this office.
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New York City.
Did you Sup
pose Mustang Liniment only good
for horses? It is for inflamma
tion of all flesh.
March, 3d, 1885.
The proposed canal treaty, between
the United States and Nicaragua, was
unanimously ratified by the Nicara
gua Senate.
Ex-President Davis is reported to be
suffering from a return of rheumatism
and the breaking out of his old wound
received in Mexico 38 years ago.
"Bill Arp’’ is on a lecturing tour in
Texas, anil is writing some interesting
letters to the Atlanta Constitution.—
We copy, in another column, his let
ter from Dallas.
The cotton factory known for the
past fifty years as “Grays,'’ at Ellicott
City, Md., has been closed indefinitely
The operatives are going elsewhere in
search of employment.
Tlie body of a man found in East
river, New York, a few days ago, has
been identified as that of Mr. W. H
McKinley, of Charleston, who disap
peared from a Jersey City ferry boat
January 8.
Within a week, preceding March 28,
the loss of Osman Digna's forces
amounted to 4,000 men. If the
Arabs can do so little with only a few
thousand British to contend against
what will he their condition when the
British forces are trebled or quadru
pled in the fall ?
The Department of Justice has been
notified that Marshal Hughes, of the
Virginia District, has been arrested in
Texas, there being an apparent ilis
orepaney in liis accounts of about
$8,000, Which he is called upon to
make good.
Execution of Wm. Neal.—Wm
Neal was the last of the so-called Ash
land murderers. He was executed at
Grayson. Ky.. March 27tli. He as
cended the scaffold with firmness and
composure. “This”, said he, “is no
place to tell a lie. I am about to suf
fer for a crime I did not commit, and
one day my innocenca will be estab
lislied beyond a doubt. 1 hid you one
and all good-bye. Oh! Lord, thou
knowest 1 am' innocent; into thy
hands I commit my soul. 1 am inno-
nooent.” These last words were said
just us tlie drop fell. He was pro
nomiced dead in ten minutes. None
of his relatives were present.
We have received a pamphlet enti
tled "Printed Poison”, bv Josiah W.
Leeds, 528 Walnut st., Philadelphia.
The author shows the connection be
tween tlie flash literature of the day
and juvenile law-breakers. He says
“manufacturing criminals is a paying
business”—one of the proprietors of a
weekly journal of this stamp died re
cently leaving an estate valued at $1,-
500,000. He says, “suppressing the
pernicious is not muzzling the press,”
and that the constitutional amend
ment guaranteeing the liberty of the
press was never intended to license
the vending of printed poisons. To
censure licentiousness is to maintain
tlie liberty of the press. The author
t'ggests that ‘irfdividual faithfulness
should impel those who have convic
tions against demoralizing literature
not to patronize such publications,
and 'proposes plans of relief by law.
The price of tlie pamphlet is 8 cents
by mail; or 00 cents per dozen.
Dr. James Woodrow, late Professor
in the Columbia Seminary, thinks he
is thought to have been guilty of here
sy in teaching the doctrine of Evolu-
lion and desires a trial by tlie Presby
tery. The Presbytery recently held at
Union Point, appointed a committee to
take action upon Mr. Woodrow's com
munication consisting of Rev. H. M.
Newton, Union Point, Rev. W. Adams,
Rev. G. T. Gretcliius and Mr. James
W. Wallace of Augusta aud Col. J. A.
Billups of Madison, to examine into
the rumors complained of, and if they
found that they justified legal proceed
ings to report tlie same to the Presby
tery. The intelligence, and distin
guished Christian character of this
committee, give assurance that jus
tice will he done to Dr. Woodrow and
the four Synods who complained of
his teachings in reference to Evolu
tion. Tlie committee, it was stated,
would commence their work at once,
and tin adjourned meeting of the
Presbytery will he held in Augusta at
an early day to receive the report of
the committee. The session will he
full of interest to the public gen
erally, as well as to the Presbyterian
denomination of Christians.
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No One Is Dismissed Who Performs
His Duty.
This language we frequently hear.
This signifies the retention of Repub
licans if they attend to their duties. Of
course they will do that to reta.ii their
places. This means a Democratic ad
ministration with republican under
officials. This is carrying out civil
service reform. This would he well
enough if the Democratic party lack
ed material for honest and faithful
performance of duty. This means a
Democratic administration with re
publican clerks. Let us say in truth
that we have no ill ■will to republican
officials, but at the same time let us
say this is unjust to democrats who
fought tlie democratic battle and won
the victory. Mr. Hendricks knows
better what is right, and what is best
for the Democratic party. It is stat
ed that in every selection for office at
his disposal he lms chosen a Democrat
and it endears him to the Democratic
party and makes him at this moment
the most popular official who has been
exalted to official station by democrat
ic votes. There is injustice and cruel
ty in tlie opposite plan. The whole
civil service policy as a general rule is
a cruel and ridiculous absurdity. A
few days since there was a commis
sion in Atlanta to examine candidates
for certain stations. People who wan
ted certain places, such as post offices,
route agencies and other places, had
to travel at much inconvenience, loss
of time and expenditure of money to At
lanta to he examined by a commission
sent to that place to examine them, and
decide whether they were competent to
perform the duties of the offices to
which they aspired. They were asked
questions in geography, history, per
eentage, interest, discount, accounts.
English language and government,
spelling, arithmetic, and writing, to
see whether they were fit to manage a
Finall post office* or to perform the du
ties of a route agent on a rail-road, &c.
When the writer was Postmaster at
Augusta, some of the best route
Ageuts in the service might have
been unable to answer some ordinary
questions on any of these subjects. It
was not necessary for them to under
stand them, to perform those duties
faithfullv and efficiently. The old
plan of the recommendation of a mem
ber of congress or a postmaster at
some important place or the recom
mendation of citizens for an appoint
ment to the Postmastership of a city,
was a simple and sufficient commenda
tion without all this school bov exami
nation and sickly scholastic folly. We
would state that we do not refer to all
classes of appointments. Examina
tions may be proper in appointing
engineers in the marine service. It
is important that in these departments
and in some others that appointees
should he thoroughly qualified for the
positions conferred upon them and as
a general rule that cannot be better as
certained than by competitive exam
inations.
Washington Letter.
From Our Regular Correspondent.
ARP’S TRAVELS.
Washington, March 30th, 1885.
Government machinery is running
very smoothly under the new manage
ment, and it is conceded on all hands
that more and better work is accom
plished under the neft- regime. As yet
the heads of the different departments
have been able to do very little in the
ivay of reorganization and reform, but
the needlessly complicated systems of
the various bureaus are receiving care
ful study, and it is expected that from
1500 to 2000 clerks will be discharged
in Washington alone.
A large crowd gathered about the
stables last Thursday at the sale of
Government horses and carriages or
dered by Secretary Lamar. The ele
gant equipages brought good prices,
but the money returned to the U. S.
Treasury is but a small portion of the
amount that will be saved. An ele
gant and expensive stable with grooms,
drivers, and horses, all costing not less
than $12,000 or $15,000 per year will no
longer he maintained at the expense
of the tax payer, and the example of
honesty and democratic frugality will
he felt in all the branches of the ser
vice over which the Secretary of the
Interior presides.
It appears that the example of econ
omy has already been felt by the Re
publican majority in the U. S. Senate,
for the caucus has debated a proposi
tion to reduce the expenses of that
luxurious body $75,000 or $100,000 per
year. In the first place, they propose
to return to Gen. Ben Butler the
House for ivhich the Senate has paid
an annual rental of $15,000, and next,
to reduce the number of clerks and
employees of whom there are many
more than are needed.
President Cleveland is maintaining
his reputation for a thorough worker.
He keeps cool, does one thing after
another, never attempts to do two
things at once, and has ample time to
look into and examine all the ques
tions he is called upon to decide. His
habits of hard work and long hours
will enable him to give great work be
fore him conscientious and careful at
tention. There is no doubt that he is
more or less bored by tlie crowds of cu
rious people who more than mere of
fice seekers are anxious to see the
President, but he does not fret or wor
ry. A friend suggested to him the
other day that a certain appointment
which it was known would particular
ly please a certain newspaper might
he advisable on that account. It
would secure the friendship of that
paper for his administration absolute
ly. His reply to this was: “Oh, well,
they have all got to come to it, any
how!” He does, in fact, believe that
every reputable newspaper in the
United States is hound to come to liis
support, because he does not intend
to adopt any course of action as Pres
ident of the United States which rep
utable journals can succeed in persuad
ing their readers is wrong.
When our bilious republican friends
recall their gloomy auguries of what
would follow the election of a Demo
cratic President, they must be amazed
at tlie inaccuracy of their imagina
tions. A few weeks ago they were in
dulging in horrid visions of long haired
tobacco eating bandits who they
thought would take the Capitol by
storm and rob the “truly good” and
daintily nice of their soft seats and
their salaries. No civil service law.
they predicted, could stand between
these long famished “outs” and the
long withheld good things of office.
The Union soldier would nave to give
way to the gaunt and Imngry grey
coat. The dreaded Democratic Presi
dent is in the seat so recently occupied
by Grant, Hayes, Garfield, and Ar
thur. And yet tilings in Washington
go on very much as before. There is
no decline in real estate consequent
upon the dismissed government clerks
having their houses forced upon the
market. In fact there is no depression
anywhere, except in the minds and
hearts of those clerks who are con
scious that they have nothing to do
and have no reason or right to draw
salaries from the public treasury.
Outside of this army of Republican
spoilsmen, loafers, and creatures, male
and female, who have been appointed
and upheld solely by “influence”,—all
is peaceful and prosperous at the Cap
itol, and numerous republicans are
now saying that the change came not
a day too soon.
Farm and Household.
Instead of trying to save money,
wise economy in a farmer dictates the
policy of seeking profitable modes of
investing it.
It shows great wastefulness in
American, and especially Western,
farmers that the hulk of flax grown in
this country is harvested for seed only.
The fiber thus wasted is probably
worth $20,000,000 per annum.
A German paper states that the
penetration of roots in drain tile,
which sometimes occasions much
trouble, may be prevented by covering
the joints in the vicinity of trees and
red clover with earth in w r hich a little
coal tar has been distributed.
A barren, cheerless highway, a bleak,
unornamented homestead too often
indicates an improper early education,
and wrong notions in regard to the
value of trees and flowers. The rising
generation should be trained to know
the importance of ornament on the
farm.
The objection to timothy hay that
it is often very dirty, is generally
caused by the pollen of the flower,
which makes a fine powder when
dried. The grass should he cut either
before or after this stag to avoid this,
preferable before, as after the timothy
goes out of blossom the stalk be
comes woody and innutritious.
The old-fashioned sweet or flowering
pea is excelled by few floivers in all
that makes a plant popular. Frag
rant, beautiful, liardv. easily grown,
it should never lose its place in the
farmer's garden. In fact, it might,
with great advantage, be substituted
for many of the fancier flowers of fine
estates. Almost any culture will suit
it, and the reward for its planting is
always sure. If one has not time to
make poles for it, give it room and let
it trail over the ground. In this man
ner it will make a tangled mass of
great beauty. Mixed seeds of different
colors are preferable.
To start oleanders from slips get a
glass fruit jar, sift nice, mellow earth
in it till it is two or three inches deep,
or till it touches the end of the slip,
then pour water over it until it is full.
Set it where it will not be necessary to
move often. After the roots start
sift more earth over, fill again with
water if needed, and so on until it is
full and filled with roots, then care
fully break the glas off and transplant
to a pot, and you will have no trouble
in starting it. Always pot roses in
sandy earth, letting the end touch the
side of the pot. Put a lamp chimney
over it, and the chances for success are
good.
Good care with plenty of room to
exercise is better for "poultry than
dosing with medicines. But laying is
an exhaustive process, and some
stimulant may be needed to put hens
in condition for further service. One
of the best tonics is known as the
Douglass Mixture,” from the name
of an English poulterer who used it
with great success long before his
neighbors discovered the secret. It is
composed of sulphate of iron eight
ounces, sulphuric acid one-half fluid
ounce, with one gallon of water. The
iron in copperas has the effect to make
the combs red. Sulphuric acid is
alone a most fiery substance and will
burn or eat into anything except stone
or lead, hut it forms a part of all
condition powders prepared for do
mestic animals.
MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF TEXAS.
Constitution.
Dallas. Tex., March 25.—Where
do all the people come from and what
are they after. The cars are full of
them and the hotels are crowded
wherever I go. They come and they
go. They seem as restless as the
troubled sea. The crowd that was
here yesterday is not here to-day, but
their places are filled and I see new
faces all the time. The hotel register
here at Dallas shows arrivals from sev
enteen states in the last three days,
and most all of them mean business.
As I sit among them in this great
large lounging room 1 cannot help
wondering what is their business and
what they are thinking about, and
how many are happy and how many
have some secret sorrow, and I -wish
1 was a mind reader and could follow
them in their thoughts of home and
family—wife, children or mother away
off sonieivliere. How much we are all
alike if we only knew it. Sometimes
1 venture a remark to a stranger who
sits near me by the stove, and I am
glad to say 1 have always found them
courteous and willing to talk to me.
When I draw them out on home and
distant kimlred it seems a welcome
subject, and as we get more familiar,
they warm up, and will venture to tell
me of tlieir families and their business.
Strangers in a strange land are very
quick to appreciate civility. A man
may he offish and uncommunicative
when at home, hut when he gets away
off he looks longingly around for a
friend—somebody that knows some
body that he knows. At times I have
felt awfully lonesome in my wander
ings over here, and I would have re
joiced with unfeigned gladness to have
seen my little dog Fido. I could have
almost cried over the affectionate wag
of his little tail. This ever-constant
mingling of tlie people from all the
states is obliged to do good. We are
all assimilating; we are rubbing
against each other more and more ev
erv day, and we understand each oth
er and find that we are all just human
and are sailing in the same big boat
upon the sea of life. The north and
the south, the east and the west are
being fast drawn together, and not
even the politicians can much longer
keep us apart. Whether we are inde
pendent states or a nation makes no
difference now. We are all Americans
anil are proud of our country.
Dallas is a beautiful city of about
forty thousand inhabitants. Dallas is
rich. Her hanks have tivo millions of
paid up capital. Her merchants do a
large wholesale trade with the smaller
towns, in a large circuit of country
—a farming country that is rich and
fertile and in a higher state of im
provement than any that I have yet
seen. Dallas is speckled with old
Georgians and their descendants, and
I have had a continuous love feast
with them. The old gray-haired men
talk to me with glistening eyes and ask a
thousand questions about our Georgia
dead and their living children. What
reverence and affection they have for
Howell Cobb and Stephens, and
Toombs and Colquitt and Judge Un
derwood anil Major Cooper. An old
gentleman called on me this morning
and said his name was Lyon, and that
he had been living in Texas forty-nine
years. He is a hrother-in-la-w to Dr.
Powell and Colonel Stevenson, the
diamond man of Gainesville. He ask
ed affectionately about Judge Under
wood, and said, “Oh, how I used to
love his wife -when she was a school
girl, hut she didn’t love me, and so I
joined a company to avenge the death
of Famiin and Bowie and Crockett and
that settled me ‘in Texas.’”
I lectured here last night to a large
audience that did me more honor than
I deserved, and by ivav of reminis
cence I paid a tribute to the grand old
ftdiig party of the south, the party
that represented the wealth and cult
ure anil aristocracy of Georgia, and
after the lecture many of the old time
ivhigs in the audience gathered around
me and thanked me. What a bond
there was among the members of that
party. How they did love and honor
and idolize their leaders. They swore
by Henry Clav and Filmore and
Stephens and 'foombs and John Bell
and—the code of honor—and those
ivho are alive swear by them yet.
This bond was never more signally il
lustrated than when Dr. Felton ran
against Dabney and Lester, for al
though they were the nominees of the
democratic party the old line whigs
could not go back on the doctor, for
he was one of them, so he had the
support, open or covert, of Toombs,
and Stephens, and Dr. Miller and al
most every old whig in the district'.
But the bond is almost gone, for tlie
bondsmen are nearly all dead.
H oiv grieved was I to hear that old
Major Cooper was dead. That grand
old gentleman of the olden time. I
was proud to call him my friend.
What an influence for good he exer
cised all liis noble life, and that influ
ence, like a sweet odor, still lingers
with the generation that has come
after him. Thei;e is no telling the val
ue of such men to the human race. It
cannot he measured, hut it leaves its
mark and the conduct and destiny of
many a man has been shaped by
them. He ought to have a monument
where it could be seen and where the
fathers could say to children there lies
a man who was an ornament to hu-
maniry—a man who served his day
and generation as a man should serve.
He did not die rich, hut he died with
all the honors that become a man.
Would that 1 had been there to have
shed a tear at his funeral.
I dined yesterday with General Ca
bell, a noble Virginian, the mayor of
Dallas, and ivlio was the quarter-mas
ter general of the army of the Poto
mac. Of course we indulged in memo
ries of the war, and it was delightful
to hear him talk of those sad and glo
rious days. “How is my old friend
Major Ayer,” said he; the gallant
hero of tlie great battle of Drainsville;
the man ivho took 600 ivagons over in
to a valley to capture anil carry away
all the hay, and when the yankees got
after him he turned his 6 horse teams
in narrow cuts that -were only ten feet
wide, and fled with alacrity hack to
Centerville, and the roaring of his
wagons over the pike for twelve miles
was like the sound of many waters.
We saw the clou^feof dust that follow
ed their track and it was like the si
moon of the desert. Old Joe John
ston had tlie long roll beat, and the
universal cry was, to arms, to arms, ye
brave ; but before the boys got fairly
started, here come the wagons driving
like Jehu and the fat major was doing
his best to keep up, and as he dis
mounted he was covered all over with
dust and perspiration, and, saluting
the general with a solemn manner, ex
claimed : General, I have brought
your ivagons back hut I left the hay
anil Tom Taylor behind. How is
Major Ayer? He ivas a splendid offi
cer and could mount and ride a horse
with more ease anil grace than any fat
man I ever saw.” I shall dine to-day
with a nest of Georgians—for Geor
gians are clannish still and so are the
people from any other state. They
love to get together and talk of their
old homes anil the scenes of their
youth—and this is natural and it is
right; state pride and "state rights”
crop out everywhere. These Texans
are not at all pleased with the appoint
ment of Henry R. Jackson to the Mex
ican mission. They say that Texas
ivas certainly entitled to that appoint
ment for Mexico is her neighbor and
the Texans know her language and
her people better than anybody.
“Who is Jackson?” said a man to me.
“Is he a Spaniard or a traveler or
what is he? What is his peculiar fit
ness for that office that made Mr.
Cleveland ignore Texas? He has not
yet given Texas a durned thing, and
yet Dick Hubbard stumped all over
Indiana for him and helped elect him.”
Well, the trouble seems tj^j
TEMPERANCE IN IRELAND.
THE ARCHBISHOP OF CASHEL INTER
VIEWED ON THE TEMPERANCE QUES
TION.
[The folloiving interview doubtless
ivas first printed in an English paper-
hut Tlie Catholic Review finds it float
ing round uncredited in the Irish pa
persj:
"Would your Grace object to my
asking you a few questions regarding
the temperance movement?”
"Certainly not. It is a matter that
I have constantly before me in one
shape or other. But, before you
begin, let me tell you honestly I think
we in Ireland have been a deal too
ready to plead guilty to all our ene
mies say against us in this matter of
intemperance. I don’t see that we are
as intemperate as, for instance, the
English or Scotch people; and certain
ly I deny most emphatically that w
are more so than they are.”
"But, my Lord there must he some
foundation in fact for the charge laid
at the door of your Grace's country
men. They are not called the ‘drunk
en Irish, merely for spite.'’
‘Well, I believe spite has a great
deal to say to it. Their accusers &ink
a great deal more than the Irish do,
but they drink much more systemati
cally. The Englishmen, however, car
ries liis liquor better, and so does the
Scotchman. A drunken Englishmai
staggers home, sodden and stupid, and
falls asleep without minding any one
If drink brings out the stupidity of
the Saxon, it brings out the caution
of tlie Scot, ivho can get drunk, and
return home, ivithout any one being
bit the wiser of it.”
" And 1 suppose, poor Paddy, my
Lord, has neither stupidity nor cau
tion?”
“Not he, poor fellow. Drink makes
a fool of liim. He must talk to every
friend and fight with every foe. He
takes a glass or two in town, and the
whole parish knows it. He seems to
be just twice as drunk as he really is
anil where an English or Scotch drun
kard would pass muster, he, poor fel
low, shouts out his own guilt. And as
for that guilt, haff the time I firmly
believe that it is tlie big heart and the
empty stomach, rather than the big
drink’, that we must hold to be the
cause of his disgrace.’’
“You think, then, my Lord, that
ivere the Irish peasant better fed his
liquor would do him less harm?”
"I am certain of it. The truth is he
eats very little and drinks very seldom
Perhaps once a week the Irish country
man touches whiskey, or not as often
His head is not used to it, as I said,
his stomach is empty—and there’s the
whole of it.”
“But surely there is something to
he put down to tlie famous Irish
whiskey?”
“Famous! Infamous, I should say,
If the poor Irish got good whiskey
there would he a very different tale to
tell. It is the horrible poisonous stuff
that the Government allows to he
given out .anil sold to our poor people
as whiskey that does the harm. It is
not that it intoxicates—it maddens
them.”
“Do you think, then, my Lord, that
Government should legislate with
view to regulating the age and quality
of the whiskey sold by the publi
cans.”
“Certainly. Why not? There are
laws regulating the sale of other poi
sons;, why should this poison be
excepted?' I am sure a home govern
rnent would have long ago passed
such a laiv. We are robbed of the
liberties ive ask for, and are given the
liberty that is ruining us. But it is
useless to talk of Englishmen taking
the trouble to grapple with this ques
tion.”
“And what does your Grace say to
the total abstainers?"
‘I say, and from my heart, God
bless them! Let them stand by their
pledges, and not abuse sober non
abstainers, and they have my best
wishes. They are already a power in
the country. ' I have close on a thou
sand total abstainers in the parish of
Thurles alone; and many of my priests
through the archdiocese are cold-
w&ter men. Even here the words and
example of your oivn great Cardinal
have their effect. I think the Irish
people should never forget the debt of
gratitude they owe Cardinal Manning
for all he has done for them in this
matter of temperance, and in many
graver matter. He has been a true
friend in all our needs. His League of
the Cross is one of the leagues that we
Irish look on with thankfulness and
hope. May God prosper it.”
A Great Problem.
—Take all the Kidney and Liver
Medicines,
—Take all the Blood purifiers,
—Take all the Rheumatic remedies,
—Take all the Dyspepsia and indi
gestion cures,
—Take all the Ague, Fever and bil-
lious specifics,
—Take all the Brain andNerve force
revivers,
—Take all the Great health restorers.
—In short, take all the best quali
ties of all these, and the —best
—(Qualities of all the best medicines
in the world, and vou will find that
—Hop
-Bitters have tlie best curative
qualities and powers of all
—concentrated
—In them, and that they will cure
when auv or all of these, singly or
—combined
—Fail. A thorough trial will give
positive proof of this.
Hardened Liver.
Five years ago I broke down with
kidney and liver complaint and rheu
matism.
Since then I have been unable to be
about at all. My liver became hard
like wood ; my limbs were puffed up
and filled with water.
All the best physicians agreed that
nothing could cure me. I resolved to
try Hop Bitters: I have used seven
bottles; the hardness has all gone from
mv liver, the swelling from my limbs,
and it has ivorked a miracle in my
ease; otherwise I would have been
now in my grave. J. W. Morey.
Buffalo; Oct. 1, 1881.
Poverty and Suffering.
“I was dragged down with debt,
poverty and suffering for years, caus
ed by a sick family and large bills for
doctoring.
I was completely discouraged, until
one vear ago, by the advice of my pas
tor, 1 commenced using Hop Bitters,
and in one month we were all well,
and none of us have seen a sick day
since, and I want to say to all poor
men, you can keep your families well
a year with Hop Bitters for less than
one doctor's visit will cost, I know it.”
—A Workingman.
W.\one genuine without a bunch of green
Hops ou the white label. Shun all the vile pois
onous stuff with -Hop” or “Hops” in their
name.
There were 28,000.000 silver dollars
made in 1884, and but 300 in 1839. The
most ancient date is 1794. From then
until 1804 they were coined continu
ously. Then a skip of thirty-two
years occurred. Tlie trade dollar is
the only thing that has marred the is
sue since 1836, with the exception of
1836, when none ivere coined. The
silver dollar of 1804 is the rarest Amer
ican coin. But two genuine ones are
believed to exist, and their owners
have refused $1,000 each for them.
The 1794 dollar brings $40. Those be-
tween 1795 and 1863. $3 each ; 1846, $4;
1839, with flying eagle, $25 each ; 1851
and 1852, $35 and $40 respectively;
1858, $6. The trade dollars issued
from 1873 to 1878 are destined to be
come rare.
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The Two Ages.
Folks were happy as days were long
in the old Arcadian times ;
When life seemed only a dartre and a song
lu the sweetest of all aweet climes.
Our world grows bigger, and, stage by stage.
As the pitiless years have rolled.
We've quite forgotten the Golden Age,
And come to the Age of Gold.
Time went by m a sheepish wav
Upon Thessaly's plains of yore,
In the nineteenth century lambs at play
Mean mutton, and nothing more.
Our swains at present are far too sage
To live as one lived of old;
So they couple the crook of the Golden Age
With a hook in the Age of Gold.
From Corydori's reed the mountains round
Heatdnewsof the latest tlame;
And Tityrus made the woods resound
With echoes of Daphne's name.
They kindly left us a lasting gauge
Of their musical art, we're told;
And the Pandean pipe of the Golden Age
Brings mirth to the Age of Gold.
Dwellers in huts and in marble halls—
From sliepherdness up lo queen—
Cared little for bonnets, and less for shawls,
And nothing for crinoline.
But now simplicity is not. the rage.
And it's funny to think how cold
The dress they wore in the Golden Age
Vvould seem in the Age of Gold.
Electric telegraphs, printing, gas,
Tobacco, balloons and steam.
Are little events that have come to pass
Since the days of the old regime;
And spite of Lempriere's dazzling page.
I'd give—though it might seem bold—
A hundred jears nr the Golden Age
For a year of the Age of Gold.
—Henry S. Leigh.
THE NEW YEAH AND THE OLD.
[From the St. Louis Illus. Magazine.]
I.—THE OLD.
The stage was set gorgeously.
Every possible requirement of taste
had been studied and followed. The
scenery was bewilderingly beautiful;
the dresses expensive and elaborate
beyond description. Art had counter
feited nature so closely and so well,
that it ivas difficult to believe the flow
ers were not real and would not give
uerfume equal to their rosy coloring.
Never had more attention been be
stowed upon detail; so making every
portion perfection, and thus blending
all into one harmonious whole.
It was on the last evening of tlie
old year and lavish outlay would be
supplemented by an unusual sensation
and attraction. One of the fairest,
most petted and worshipped of the
theatrical daughters of Paris, ivas to
say fareivell to the scenes of her tri-
umps—was to be married—and the pa
trons determined the launching of the
bark matrimonial, should he ivafteil
from its moorings by the most fervent
breath of applause, anil at least start
upon the voyage of love-life upon a
sea of floivers.
With the legend ‘no standing room’
something more than a fable; with
every part of the house literally jam
med; with ease, of breathing at a
discount, the audience waited the ap
pearance of the one for ivhoni hail
been prepared the display, and to
whom they ivere anxious to show
their devotion and regret.
By some strange fatality,—if the
term is admissuble in comnection with
the selection of a play purposely
chosen to give the actress the greatest
opportunity to display her talents,
dresses and beauty, it was "The Lady
of Lyons; or, Love and Pride.” To
the feelings of one just upon the eve of
marriage the plot would seem to jar,
even though the ending, the tears
sweet and holy, might be considered a
sufficient recompense for all of trial
and separation.
But Lora Albert (nom de theatre)
gave no thought to this. French by
adoption, but Anglo-Saxon by birth,
she had acted tlie part of Pauline
numerous times, 'knew she filled it,
that she fitted it as it did her, and that
it was the best in her repertoire for
exhibiting her radiant blonde loveli
ness, her hair of pale golden tint, and
her well developed form—a sufficient
reason for any woman.
Dressed with more of care and taste
that ever before, for love of the heart
was added to that of admiration and
conquest, she stood ready for her en
tree—ready for the altar, all hut fleecy
veil and orange blossoms. The custo
mary ‘pink satin, neatly trimmed,
and train’ (of the published stage
directions) had blossomed into an
elaborate toilet, anil with diamonds
sparkling pendant from tiny ears and
rising and failing upon the billowy
bosom, while hair, skirt anil corsage
were looped or garnished with the
rarest blossoms.
I have no need to ask ‘who can it
be that sends me, every day, these
beautiful flowers,’ ” she said with thi
sweetest of welcoming smiles to a man
who at the moment stepped to her
side, “though I might truthfully
assert ‘you spoil your Pauline.’ ”
“You are looking bravely beautiful,”
he answered as he received and warm
ly pressed the white, jeweled fingers,
extended to him, “and ivill captivate
every heart, Lora.
“Jealous?” she questioned archly,
‘and if so now what may I not fear
after our marriage?”
Fear nothing, darling. But to
qdote, as you have done, life for me Is
‘made torture by the vulgar eyes and
tongues that are as death to Love,’
and it will he for me an hour of
supreme happiness when you have
said farewell to the stage forever."
“And play Pauline to your Claude
alone?”
“Even so,” he answered far more
gravely than she thought the occasion
required, “and to consent to your
going on even this once to he clasped
in the arms of another, is like tearing
the strings of my heart asunder.”
She looked at him in a half startled,
half astonished manner from beneath
long, curved lashes before she replied,
and the color swept as curdling waves
of crimson from bosom to cheek as
she did so.
“You cannot doubt me, Ray?”
“No, Lora, but—?”
The prompter’s bell put a sudden
ending to the conversation and the
sentence was never finished. But it
was with heart beating far more
fitfully and uneasily than the ovation
she received would account for, that
Lora Albert repeated the opening
lines of the play. Soon, however, all
of the nervousness caused by the brief
interview with her lover was forgotten,
and when, in changed dress of white,
and looking bride-like she appeared,
there was not a trace of feeling other
than pleasure and trust upon her
radiant and speaking face.
The play continued to the fifth act,
she winning new triumphs and regret
becoming voiced that one so lovely
and gifted, should have decided to, in
the hereafter, deprive the public of
the privilege of seeing her. Thus far
she had trod as upon roses. The
stage had been carpeted with them,
she had received more than she could
carry, and as she sat alone and resting
before the final scene when love
would be tried even to ‘the loathsome
irostituticn of a hand without
leart,’ a little fairy of a child came
dancing into her dressing-room, with
eyes as blue and hair as golden as her
own. With the inherent passion of
woman and motherhood she raised it
into her lap, smoothed the tangled
curls, and hugging it to her bosom
kissed it warmly, even passionately
again and again.
It was an impressive, a beautiful
tableau, that lovely woman with all of
tenderness, and affection shining in
her face, and speaking in her caressing
touch and softly whispered darling.
But it was rudely broken. A sudden
sound caused her to look up, and
standing framed in the doorway she
saw the man to whom she hail pledg
ed hand and heart until death did
^Witiuhasty strides he came to her
side and in a’ voice hoarse with anger
demftfioie chilli is xnau
Instantly all the pride and modesty
iW ”" d : Tl “
“Mine!”
“Yours? And you have dared to
deceive me thus? Your child? And I
was to be—”
He rushed from her presence and
from the theatre. The audience saw
that night no happy ending to the
troubled love of Pauline, and deeply
mourned for one stricken down in the
hour of her greatest pride, and—so
the tale was told—suddenly insane.
IX.—THE NEW.
It was the New Year in the New
World. Th'e snow lay heavily upon
the hilltops, was drifted deeply in the
valleys and the streams were strongly
ice-bridged. Christmas had been a
‘green one,’ with peaceful skies and
almost Southern warmth, hut the
death of the old year ivas marked by
fierce gales and intense coldness. Even
the salty waters of the ocean had
vieldeil to the congealing power, and
ice was thickly piled along the shores.
The rigging of vessels was fringed anil
festooned with it, and it hung in pen
dent prisms from the roofs. _ For the
poor the weather was terrible, and
for the rich it afforded sufficient ex
cuse to remain at home over the glow
ing anthracite.
But regardless of weather, places
of amusement bloomed with the most
festive blossoms, and ‘Society’ braved
all the rigors of winter to fill their
walls. With the closing of the day
they became the attractions, and lit
tle would one have believed the beg
gar ivailed upon the sidewalk for tho
price of a crust, or the babe died in
the attic for ivarmth, to have heard
the rustles of silks, and bail his or her
eyes dazzled by the flashing of dia
monds.
But sickness comes there as well as
to the hovel, and the old, repulsive pic
ture of a skeleton rising from the
heart of a rose is no myth. All the
pomp and glory of the theatre is no
bar to the subtle coming of disease,
and audiences unreasonble as they
ever are at disappointment, have to
hear as )>est they may when a favorite
is overpowered by tne ills of the ma
terial body, and forced to play a very
different part from that named in the
bills.
The first night of the jocund New
Year is no exception to the rule—as
Doctor Elliot had personal proof of
when hastening home after seeing the
last of his patients. The bright gas
light in front of ‘The Minerva' reveal
ed his identity to a policeman, who in
stantly summoned him to attend a
lady suddenly taken with some dan
gerous illness.
Without questioning he followed
and ivas led to the hack entrance of
the theatre. For an instant he paus
ed upon the threshold and shuddered
as with col'* * .en walked calmly for-
ivaril anil ft $ ushered into that ideal
ized realm o. beauty to the uninitia
ted, that gt.. rally barren spot to
those ivliose nighty home is behind
the scenes—the Green Room.
Upon one of the couelies, with many
anxious faces around her, lay a woman
still young and hearing the traces of
great beauty, but with the once soft
lines about the mouth grown hard,
anil the form wanting in roundness
and pristine perfection.
That the actress had fallen in a dead
faint he quicjdy learned. He gave to
the ashy face a quick, comprehensive
glance, anil turning sternly away
asked her name. One unfamiliar to
him was given ; he asked how long she
had been engaged at the theatre, and
ivas told hut a few months ; he inquir
ed as to her residence, and decided that
she must he taken there with the least
possible delay.
His orders were obeyed. A carriage
was sent for, her servant procured
wraps, anil she was carried from the
glare and the glitter, the illusions and
the fascinations, never to set foot
among them again.
The drive was a short one, hut the
physician, as is the wont of his profes
sion learned as mucli as possible of
her history, her manner of living anil
that she was unmarried, Then, upon
their arrival, as if impressed by what
he had heard, he lifted her tenderly
and transported her into the house,
and instantly gave attention to her
necessities.
“Heart disease,” ivas the answer he
gave to the anxious maid servant, and
then with his lips trembling as if he
with difficulty restrained them from
breaking asunder in smiles or scoffs,
he added: “and there are countless
phases of it the world knows nothing
of. But I do not consider this attack
fatal.”
He gave directions for her disrobing
and being placed in bed, and retired to
another room. But ivhile ivcaiting to
he recalled, he uneasily walked the
floor and grumbled at the delay.
His fair patient had not recovered
from the severe attack of syncope.
The action of the heart, of respiration,
of the brain, were still interrupted anil
neither sensation, or volition, had re
turned. Gently forcing restoratives
between the rigid lips anil rubbing the
slender hands, he anxiously watched
for good results.
“Has your mistress ever before been
taken thus?” he asked of the Abigail.
“Yes, sir,” was answered, “several
times.”
“When playing the same part?’’
“Always, sir.”
“Humph!” and he turned away anil
looked long and ahsorhedly out of the
window.
The incoherent mutterings of the
sufferer aroused him, and takin g liis
place again by the bedside, but out of
view, he watched the painfully twich-
ing muscles, the tortured features and
the half-parted lips as she, deeming
herself still upon the stage, rehearsed
portions of the text.
Even one less familiar with the mat
ter would have seen that her mind was
wandering, that she did not realize
what had happened or where she was.
But the physician gave no sign of his
presence. He knew how very much
might depend upon rest, and also upon
a sudden shock to the nervous system
already strained as a bow string unto
breaking.
By degrees he saw animation return ;
saiv a faint flush creep hack to the
cheeks and lips anil the trembling
cease. Then the eyes opened and see
ing familiar objects and the face of her
servant bending over her, she faintly
asked ;
“Margaret why am I here? What
has happened? - ’
“Nothing, my lady, only you were
taken very ill at the theatre, fainted,
and had to be brought home.”
“You did not do it alone?”
“No, my lady. A doctor came with
me.”
“Wnat did he say was the matter?”
“Heart disease, my lady.”
“And he was right, but none of his
profession can ever give the ‘sweet ob
livious antidote’ that would perfect a
■cure.” _ .
She closed her eyes again as if the
light was hateful, and sighed as if me
was a heavy buiden she would gladly
lay down. The physician watchaa
her critically for a few moments, then
beckoned to the maid and h er Jd .-
go and procure some ice. I nei^mr
stole noiselessly to the bedside ana
bending over the feu- face, exclamaed
in a voice broken and thrdhng with
C1 “Look up! Look up, Pauline! for
I can bear thine eyes. ;
“Oh Heaven! Ray. ...
Again she fainted, but it was in his
anus and it was his kisses—the most
magical of medicine—that recalled her
to hfe. And sweet beyond all she had
ever dreamed of, were the words of
explanation and love breathed into
her ears, and with a new and holy
meaning she repeated: “the night is
past; joy cometh with the morrowJ’
It was the beginning of a New Year
and a new life to them. Her wrongs
had indeed made her sacred in his eyes
and heart, and nevermore would the
lesson of false and frantic jealousy be
forgotten. And as ‘the snow that falls
but never melts’ rested upon their hair,
Love brought a wanner benediction
and he thanked heaven for so h-ich a
blessing’, and ever endeavored the
better to deserve it by making the
lives of others as his own, and giving
to each and all “A Happy New Year.”
William H. Bushnell.
Such Works at the Near Approach
of Spring.
some more.
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iinou Pushed her cheeks
? IfV *’ith an iev flow to her
* passionate impulse took the
, , tkot reason; all that was antago
nistic within her was aroused by his
evidently insane jealousy, and with-
c ^ i,J ^ for the consequences she
<i«*antly answered:
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