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TO-MORROW.
tli the downhill of life when I find I'm declin
ing /
May my lot no less fortunate be
Than a snug elbow-chair can afford for redlin
ing,
And a cot that o’erlooks the wide sea
With an ambling pad pony to pact o’er the
lawn,
While I carol away idle sorrow,
And blithe as the lark that eaok -day hails the
dawn,
Look forward with hope for to-morrow.
With a porch at my door txKh for shelter and
Shade, too,
Ae the sunshine or tain may prevail;
And a small spot of ground for the nse of the
spade, too,
With barn for the use of the flail;
A cow for my dairy, a dog for my game,
And a purse wbec & friend wants to borrow;
PU envy no nabob his riches or fame,
Nor what honors await him to-morrow.
Prom the bleak northern blast may say cot be
completely
Secured by a neighboring hill;
And at night snav repose steal npoa use mere
sweetly
By the sound of a murmuring rill;
And while peace am! plenty I find at asy beard,
With a beurt free from sickness and sorrow,
With my friends may I share what to-day may
afford,
And let them spread the table fo-sseirow.
And when I at last throw off this frail covering
Which I've worn for three-soon yean and
ten,
On the brink of the grave ITi not seek to keep
hovering,
Nor my thread wish to spin o'er again ;
But njy face in the glass I’ll serenely butvot,
And-with smiles count each wrinkle end fur
■row,
As this old worn out stuff, winch as threadbare
to-day,
H*y become everlasting to-morrow.
Wk. ■Gramms,
VICTIMS OF OPIUM,
A HOI I.IFB SENSATION FROM LONDON—
WHY A MARRIAGE WAS BROKEN OFF
ABRUPTLY.
London Life vouches for tbe truthful
ness in every liartieulsr of the following
narrative, the names alone being with
held :
Very recently arising young physician
in the West End of London was sum
moned to attend an urgent case. As the
carriage drew up at the door, he observed
that there was an awning and a car
pet extending from the portal to the
curb, anil on reaching the hall lie found
that the house was thronged with people
in evening dress. The messenger, speak
ing to a white-haired military-looking
gentleman who eat alone before the tire
place, said :
"Sir Hugh, this is Dr. Fielding,” and
withdrew.
The gentleman addressed rose from his
chair, and ns he etood in the blazing
light of the sea-coal fire he seemed a man
in whose splendid physical presence the
Doctor at once recognized the person of
a famous naval commander, whose deeds
of personal prowess in the Pacific and iu
the China Seas had won for him some
thing more than a national reputation.
“Be seated, Doctor,” he said, pointing
to a chair. “My daughter was to have
been married to-day. I have Bent for
you because I know your reputation for
the treatment of nervous -diseases is very
high.”
“My professional skill is at your ser
vice,” said the Doctor.
“Your answer is frank and to the
point,” returned the Baronet.,“Tbe mar
riage of my daughter has not taken place.
To-day she passed from a state of vivac
ity and happiness into one of stupor.
All our efforts to arouse her have proved
unavailing. In order that you may com
prehend the entire situation, I shall be
forced to detail some of any own and of
my family history. Her mother was a
native of the East Indies. I married her
after a brief courtship, when I was a
Flag Lieutenant in the East India squad
ron, many yean ago. She was the daugh
ter of a missionary who hod given over
his zealous ambition to -convert the hea
then of Bnrmah, and had gone into trade.
In a short time his fortune had reached
an incredible amount. There were vague
rumors that the greater part of it had
been gathered by transactions in opium.
The young lady herself was beautiful and
talented, and the sole heiress to her fa
ther’s enormous wealth. Among the
many suitors who came I was the suc
cessful one, and our wedding in many re
spects was n remarkable affair. Our only
child was bom some years later, and
shortly afterward I was ordered to an ar
duous service in the Corean waters. On
its completion I returned to England to
find luy wife broken in health, and the
victim of the most painful complication
of disorders. It was necessary to allay
her pain, and to do this morphia was re
sorte 1 to. She lingered on and died. Be
fore her death, she told me in a lucid mo
ment that she had learned the use of
opium in her childhood, and that while
she had never become a slave to it, she
had nevertheless taken it with regularity,
and she had no doubt that her illness re
sulted from the habit. In this view the
physician who attended her concurred.
Now, sir, my child appears to me to have
been using some drug. I have no reason
tc believe that she is a slave to the habit
of taking opium, in any of its horrible
forms, but my heart is burdened with the
gravest apprehensions. Should you dis
cover that she is, the wedding ceremony
which is only postponed, sfroU never take
place. The bridegroom is the son of my
dearest friend, and I can never permit
that he shall have the prospect of a life
of misery, such as mine has been ; the
more so, fol the reason that there is no
way to ensure happiness for her.”
They passed out through the hall, up
the staircase, encountering the guests
who had lieen hidden to the marriage
feast taking their departure. Some of
them gave looks of curiosity, but all of
them had u word of sympathy or a pres
sure of the hand to bestow upon the
stricken father as he passed by.
On reaching the landing the Baronet
stopped for a moment to recover his self
possession, and then gently opening a
door, ushered the Doctor into the pa
tient’s chamber. The'sight that greeted
the Doctor’s eye embraced as its central
feature the form of a young lady ckal in
a dress of white satin, and lying on a
bed. A bridal vail of delicate lace trailed
its luxuriant length over the back of a
chair, on which also hung a wreath of
orange blossoms.
In a moment the man of science saw
that the father’s worst fears were justi
fied. A mere glance at the swollen eye
lids, whose unuatural yellow color was
heightened by the dark-blue veins that
traversed them, showed that the young
lady was not only the victim of ft larger
portion than she had been accustomed
to take, but that the custom itself was
a 4 old Standing.
“Weil, Doctor," asked the Baronet,
anxiously, “is it opium?”
“We must first save her life," replied
the Doctor, evasively.
’Proper remedies were administered so
successfully that in a few minutes the
victim was aroused from the Btate of
coma into which she had fallen, and
brought to her feet. Then begau the
heroic treatment. She was beaten with
hands, pricked with sharp points, and
subjected to repeated shocks from a gal
vanic battery, while her stomach was at
tacked with the most powerful emetics,
aud all the while she was kept walking
up and down the room, despite her
pleadings to be allowed to lie down and
cioee her eyes.
It took many hours before the im
mediate danger passed away. Then the
Doctor sought the Baronet in his librarv.
and said without preface:
■“Your daughter, sir, is a confirmed
opium-eater; not only has she used the
drug in that form, but she has taken it
sub-cutaneously. ”
“This is horrible news,” moaned the
father. “Cannot this frightful habit be
checked and finally stopped? If you
can stop it, or if you think you can, re
linquish your career to devote yourself
to the task, and I will give you my
whole fortune; nay, even my life.”
Dr. Fielding shook his head gloomily.
“ No,” he said, “science has not done
that. Even in Paradise appetite reigned
and ruined.”
That night the Doctor pored over his
books, and finally, as if possessed of
some new impulse, he hastened to his
laboratory, and selecting from its shelves
a bottle, carefully measured out a portion
of morphia. He was about to conduct
an experiment of which he himself was
to be the subject.
It does not require manv months for
opium to assert its sway. Within a year
the subject had become the ruler, and
the student was enthralled probably
beyond the power of escape. Meanwhile
he devoted himself to the case of the
Baronet’s daughter. He sacrificed his
own career, shunned his old associates,
gave up all practice, and either passed
his time by her side, or iu the retire
. ment ef his own rooms, dreaming in
blissful, /ateful sleep.
into the morbid brain of the Doctor
came visions of lands in whose glorious
confines a goddess dwelt and ruled. Into
his heart there came anew sensation of
pleasure aud paiu. And besotted by
the drug, or wrapped in the slumbers of
its creation, one thought alone pulsated
in his brain. He was in love with his
patient. And for a time Ins efforts were
crowned with encouraging results,
Devoting all his attention to her case, he
at last checked her craving for the drug,
and loosened the fetters of habit, though,
unfortunately, without being able to
break them. The father, noticing tho
first resnlts, was transported with joy,
but seeing that the improvement was not
permanent, became the prey of a renewed
anxiety. He questioned tho Doctor
closely. The answers gave him no satis
faction. Sad experience had given him
a keen insight. One dnv tho thought
flashed upon him that the Doctor himself
betrayed symptoms of being an opium
slave. Ho bluntly put the question.
“ Do you take opium ?”
The Doctor’s pallid face, his trembling
nerves, his lustreless eyes, gave one an
swer but the honor of the man made
him pause before he opened his lips—
and lied. He had been devoting so much
labor and time to the study of this case,
he said, that his health had felt some ill
• fleets; hut he had now become even
more hopeful than ever, and lie felt that
the future was bright with almost as
sured hope. He sard it was clear that
the father himself had become the prey
of his unfortunately morbid surround
ings, and that he sorely needed change
of air. “In short, you shonld go on a
sea voyage, hope for the best for your
daughter, and wheu you return yon * will
receive good news. I assure you that
you will.”
Reassured by this confident tone aud
manner, the Baronet acted upon Dr.
Fielding's suggestion. He was away for
a considerable time, and being continu
ally advised of the rapidly progressing
recovery of his child, returned at last,
improved in health aDd full of joyous
anticipations. His arrival was quite un
expected. The butler admitted him, but
he pushed rapidly by and entered the
room where it was indicated he would
find bis child. There he encountered
the Doctor, who was just arousing him
self from an opium sleeps His daughter,
half awake, was reposing in an arm "hair,
her eyes half closed, the lines of her face
softening aud changing as her mind
swayed in the elysium of the opiate.
Horror-stricken, the father dashed to
ward the Doctor, with a look upon his
face that told of murder. But, at that
moment nature’s hand stayed him, his
heart ceased to beat, his eyes closed, his
form fettered aud be fell to the floor.
Ajioplexy, brought on in the moment
of wild excitement, had claimed a victim.
The Doctor made a feeble effort to restore
liiru, but his vacillating mind could not
grasp the necessary treatment. When
tiic servants came in, they found him by
the body, gibbering idiotically. They
carried him nway, leaving for the time,
the beautiful victim of an incurable
malady asleep in her chair.
On the Toboggan.
Toboggans, which arc used to such
an extent for amusement in Canada, are
birch planks, twice as thick as ordinary
blotting paper. They lie flat on the
■now and curl over in front They carry
from two to six persons. Cushions are
fastened on them when in use. It is
customary for a girl to sit foremost. A
Montreal girl can sit down on the
cushion, wrap her skirts about her ankles,
and then throw her feet under the curve
of the board with the grace of a dutches*
at a ball. Other women or men sit be
hind. Last of all is the eteerer. He
kneels on the toboggan and steer* with
his toe*. The hill is purposely coated
with ice and kept smooth ae the face of a
flatiron. There is a shout, and down
goes the board with the speed of a shot,
and followed by a fountain of ice dust and
■now. In Peel street, which was the
public toboggan hill set apart by the
Government dnriDg the Ice Carnival,
sawdust is sprinkled at the foot of the
slide; otherwise toboggan* and their
loads would never stop short of the
further bank of the broad St Lawrence.
These boards seem ae pliable as soft
leather. The irregularities in the roads
bend them like ribbon. Decently the
sleighs interfered. One. load of girls shot
under a horse on Slierbrook street. A
load of young men in anew toboggan,
going at a mile a minute, hit a cutter a
side blow. The cutter irons were bent,
the toboggan was wrecked and the men
went into the snow bank. Two girls in
snow-shoe dress were whizzing down
fifty feet behind. Their steerer struck
his too deep down, and the toboggan
turned to the five-foot high snow bank
and went over it as a steeplechaser might
clear a fence. The young people tumbled
off, but escaped unhurt. Then the police
forbade the sport, except on the club
■hde along the mountain.
“We haven’t any army to speak of,’
save the Florida Times. * but we can
heat the world on a pension list.''
THE HF.RO OF THE COMSTOCK.
A Great Krputtutau Ruinnt by Too Meet
teal.
[From the Carson Appeal.]
Years Ago, in the early days of the
Comstock excitement, Pat Holland, now
Postmaster and Coroner in a little town
in Cochise County, Arizona, was the
most respected man in the State. He
had the reputation of being a dead shot
with the pistol. Of course this accom
plishment made him feared by everybody,
and there was no man in Virginia so bold
as to cross him iu public. Pat acquired
his reputation by shooting on the stage,
and could knock an apple off’ his sou’s
head with an accuracy and carelessness
which combined to impress the public
far more than the manner in w hich the
painstaking William Tell performed the
feat, with an arrow. Finally Pat secured
a young lady who would allow an apple
to be shot off her flaxen roll, aud when
Pat executed the feat he would throw'
his keen eye at the girl and then roll his
orbs up into the gallery, and without
looking at his mark, send a bullet through
the fruit. This was put down on the
bills as “Pat Holland's psyeologiea] feat
of shooting from memory,” and drew
crowded houses. One night he adver
tised to slioot apples from twelve young
ladies’ bends in succession, and only hike
one look at the crowd. Piper’s Opera
House was packed with men at a dollar
a head, and when the curtain rose twelve
immaculate 1 Millet dancers were in line
along the wings, each with an apple on
her head. Pat stepped to the footlights
and bowed amid tremendous applause.
He had a six-shooter in eacli hand, and
the stage manager announced that he
would shoot the last six apples with his
left hand. Casting his eye along the
line, he took a long breath, a steady posi
tion, and then faced the audience. Lift
ing his revolver he began shooting in
rapid succession, and the apples began
to fly out of sight amid the breathless
silence of tlie audience. The curious
part of the performance, however, lay iu
the fact that by the time that Pat had
fired six shots all the appl( s had disap
peared, yet he kept right on hanging
away with his left hand, amid roars of
laughter and derision. To cap the climax,
two apples got tangled together and re
mained dangling from tho edge of a
scene in plain sight of the audience. The
trick was at once apparent. Each apple
had a fine thread attached, and at the
shot was jerked quickly out of sight. Tho
stipes behind the scenes got confused at
Fat’s rapid firing, and half tho apples
disappeared before the time. Two were
snatched off simultaneously, and tho
strings overlapping in tlio air brought
the apples together, where they hung to
the edge of the scene, the strings being
on each side. This ended Holland’s
career ns a public soloist with tho pistol,
aud the public gradually came to look
upon him as an ordinary mortal. Soon
after this he got into a street row in
Pioche, aud tired ten shots in a densely
populated portion of tho eity without
killing a man. But for attempting to do
too much at once, lie might have gone to
Congress from Arizona years ago.
Visiting the Claimant.
The London Daily Neivs says: An
interview with tho claimant took place at
Portsmouth Convict- Prison. It being
the anniversary of his birth, hls sons,
Roger aud James, were allowed to visit
him, by a special order of the Homo
Secretary. The boys were accompanied
by Mr. S. Pearsc, late Under Sheriff of
Southampton and only three visitors be
ing permitted at the interview, the re
mainder of the convict’s friends were
obliged to remain outside the prison
gates. The claimant looked (Veil, and
had no complaint to make as to his diet
or treatment. When interrogated on the
subject of the report lately current'of his
having been put in ironsj he said to his
son Roger, pointing to the good-conduct
badge he wore on his arm, “I could not
weai- this and irons, too.” Oil Mr. Pearse
wishing him many happy returns of the
day. aiid expressing a hope that its next
anniversary would lie passed in a differ
ent place, the eiaimant said, “Hsar,
hoar; I bo]ie so, too.” He was pleased
with the information that his eldest lon,
Roger, had gained the first prize at his
school at Romany, and his second son,
James, having been equally successful in
obtaining odc for good conduct. When
asked if he had any objections to liis sous
coming to see him, he said : “Two years
ago I told Mr. Guilford Onslow that I
should not like them to see me in the
prison dress, but then I thought I should
never live to serveont my se.ntence. Now
that I feel well again I have no such ob
jection.” He also said that lie approved
of liis son Roger writing to the Home
Secretary and asking for a remission of
liis sentence on the ground that ho and
his brothers and sisters were growing up
and ought to have a father’s anxious care
aud supervision. He rejoiced that the
Cloture bill had passed, as now Parlia
ment would have more time to give to
domestic legislation, and so might recon
sider liis ease. Toward the close of the
interview the claimant, who desired to be
remembered to all those friends who had
so kindly helped him in his trouble and
still stuck to him, told his sons to value
their consciences and immortal souls
more than wealth, and that although liis
imprisonment had come through hie
speaking the truth, he never regretted
having done so for a moment. He reit
erated that he had no fault to find with
the prison officials, who discharged a
disagreeable duty as kindly as they could.
As his sons were leaving him he told
Roger that a well known firm of solicitors
had offered to compromise the Tiehbome
case while it was on, but he bad refused
to be any party to a settlement for his
son Roger's sake, the estates being en
tailed.
. Beading Before Signing.
The London Teleyraph says: An
amusing anecdote reaches us from a vil
lage in the Inbre et Loire, where a quar
rel has been raging between the Mayor
and the local schoolmaster. The latter
was recently summoned to appear before
the Prefe<;t of the department, to whom
he complained of the Mayor's negli
gence.
In proof of this he showed an official
report, written by himself, and contain
ing the following passage : “I have no
case of hydrophobia or madness to re
port, unless it be that of the Mayor and
corporation, who are idiots and raving
madmen.” The Mayor signed and
stamped the document without reading
it, little dreaming that it would be used
as evidence again?/ himself with tho
Prefect
The Two Companies.—A Georgia pa
per says that at the outbreak of the war
two companies from that State, the Cobb
Infantry and the Gilmour Blues, started
out with the same number of men, and
had the same number killed, the same
number wounded, the same number dead
from natural causes and the same Dum
ber dead from wounds.
Fbanx Fkayne should go to Niagara
Falls and shoot the rapids.
A MODERN SAMPSON.
The Sirens Men ef Wu.bln.i.a County,
N. V.—What He CmM Oa.
In a Troy pajier recently appeared an
article giving a short history of the life
and doings of Abner Mcllrath, of Euclid,
Ohio, and in that article he was repre
sented as the strangest man in America
while living, with the exception of that
famous strang man of northern New
York, Joseph Call. The greatest feat
of strength claimed for Melkath was the
lifting of an iron shaft which weighed
1,700 pounds, and it is also stated that he
lifted it by grasping it with his hands,
which, it is claimed, would he equal to
lifting twice that weight in harness. It
would be useless to deny the fact that
Abner Mcllrath was a mighty man. But
I propose to give a short sketch of the
life of a man who wvis but little known
outside of the village of Granville Cor
ners in Washington County, where he
was bom aud spent the most of a long
life. It is known of him, and can be
proved, that lie has performed feats of
strength unsurpassed by any man that
has. lived in ancient or modern times,
excepting, of course, the Biblical Samp
son.
His name is or was Stearn Carpenter;
his occupation was that of a farmer.
Being naturally of a very quiet, peace
able disposition and a memlier of the
society of Friends, he never did anything
for display to attract attention, but the
feats of strength that he performed were
done more to satisfy himself and to see
how much he could iift than for anything
else. All of liis lifting was done by main
strength, without harness of any kind.
One of his greatest feats was ring a
box filled with iron which weighed 1,900
pounds, which is equal to lifting 3,800
pounds in a harness. He lifted it with
ease with his hands by graspiug a rope
or chain which was bound around the
box to seciU'e it-. He did not know the
weight of the box of iron at tiie time,
and was afterward hoard to say that had
he known it weighed so near a ton he
would have put on the other hundred
pounds and lifted the whole. At another
time he lifted a cannon that weighed
1,400 pounds aud shouldered it. At
Comstock’s Landing, on the Champlain
Canal, near Whitehall, one day while
waiting for a load of merchandise, he
lifted a barrel of white lead with ease.
The writer of this article was an eye
witness to this feat-, besides a number of
others.
His neighbors when killing hogs,
if Steam happened to he around, would
ask him to guess the weight of a hog
just killed. If it happened to be a big
one of 400 or 500 pounds, he would stoop
down and twist his lingers into tho
bristles, and in that manner lift the
carcass clear from the ground aud guess
on its weight. He performed oue of the
greatest- feats of strength on record after
lie had reached tho age of seventy-five
years. He lifted two 24-foot iron rails
by grasping one in each hand, and
walked oft' with them. Tlio rails were
resting on wooden horses, so he did not
stoop down to lift them; One day in
haying-time he was going from the field
with his men to the house for dinner.
They were walking. along the road to
gether, when ono of his men, for mis
chief, came up behind him and by a
skillful trip threw Carpenter down. He
gathered himself up and said nothing
about it. He walked t a the house, and
after dinner, on returning to the field
with his men, they came along to tho
place where the man gave him the fall.
He suddenly tinned upon the man,
and grasping him by the shoulder and
the seat, of the trousers, lifted him and
hurled him over a scum-rail {.*ice, by
the side of which they happened to bo
walking. The man came down in the
meadow a rod or more from the fence,
considerably shaken up but not badly
hurt. Mr. Carpenter was not a gigantic
man in size. He was aland six feet tall,
and appeared much less than that owing
to his massive build. There was no
superfluous flesh njsin him, but the
muscles of his arms, shoulder and neck
seemed to lie piled upon him, so gieat
-was their size. This gave him a stoop
ing appcarauce. In a crowd, a casual
observer would not. be liable to pick him
out for one of the strongest men that
ever lived. His strength would equal if
not surpass that- of the great Roman
gladiator Milo. Mr. Carpenter is living
at the present time at Granville Corners,
Washington County, N. Y., Iris old
home, or was living there the last I
heal’d of him. He must he over eighty
years of age.
The Ostrich as a Speculation.
The New York Times editor has gone
into the ostrieli business and gives his
experience as follows:—Let us suppose
that a man with a wife aud three children
undertakes to raise ostriches, and to that
end borrows S4OO and buys a pair of
birds. If he uses one egg per day- for
the table lie can give liis family all the
animal food they need. 1 f lie fries tho
yolk of the egg for breakfast he can
cook tlio white for dinner. Ho can sell
$l5O worth of L athers at Iho end of his
first year of ostrich-raising, and if there
are any hotels or boarding-houses in the
neighborhood, he can make from S2O to
S3O by selling the thick ends of the
ostrich quills—which are usually six
inches long and half an inch in
diameter—to be used for stuffing feather
beds. Meanwhile, the original ostriches
■will be hatching out broods of yonng
ostriches. Even if they produce only
twelve voiing ostriches'per annum, the
young birds will be worth, as soon as
they are fully grown, S2OO each.
Thus we see that an original investment
of S4OO for a pair of ostriches will return
within one year $3,000, more or less;
and as the young ostriches grow to
maturity aDd begin to lay their own
eggs the yield will be proportionately
greater.
Ostrich keeping in this country is at
• tended w ith one advantage. The ostrich
keeper is able to keep bis ostriches. To
enter an ostrich-house and carry off an
ostrich without alarming its owner would
I* an impossibility. Not only is the
bird far too big anil heavy to lie carried
by less than three or four stout men, but
on being rudely awakened in the middle
of the night he is sure to kick with tre
mendous force.'
When ostriches have become too old
to lay they make admirable substitutes
for the spring chicken of railway restau
rants. Not only is one ostrich eqnal in
size to dozens of chickens, but it is prac
tically indestructible, and in cold weather
it can be served up for many successive
days, and to thousands of successive pas
sengers, It is quite possible that after
having served for a time as spring chicken
the aged ostrich could be worked up into
water-proof boots. At any rate experi
ments with that end in view are now in
progress in Victoria, and it is very prob
able that they will be erowned with suc
cess.
“ Yocr husband is a staid man now, is
he not ?” asked a. former schoolmate of
her friend, who had married a man rath
er noted for his fast habits. “I think
so,” was the reply, “he staid out all last
night,”
Treserted Potatoes.
The great drawback in the past in the
way of an extended export trade of po
tatoes from this ejuutry has lain in the
fact- that in ocean voyages the vegetable
is susceptible to sweat and rot. and on
arrival the losses fcom this cause are
often found to counterbalance the profit
made on the iDtact Dart of the cargo.
This inconvenience seems to be over
come by the recent invention of a ma
chine for pressing and preserving pota
toes in such a manner that they may be
dried and kept lor a number of years in
iny climate;
Ladies A children’s boots 4k shoes can’t ran
over if Lyon’s Pst. Heel stiflensis are used
When the papers, speak of the infant
industries of the country they don’t
mean sticking the toes in the mouth or
biting upon rubber rattles, although
those are the principal industries of the
infants.
The hygiene of quackery has done more to
aggravate dyspepsia by self-inflicted starva
tion than gluttony ever did. Gastbine cures
the worst forms of dyspepsia.
A Kentucky exchange asks: “Whal
is the great lever that shoves the news
paper forward?” Well, in the case of
most country journals, it is two dollars a
year in advance.
Tli* Might of the Pell.
Oh. the orator’s voice is a mighty power,
As it echoes along the green.
But tho fesrlew pen ha- more swayo’ermea,
To sound the praises of Carboline.
A New York man is trying to eat
thirty braco of quail in thirty days.
Why don’t lie make it real exciting by
undertaking to eat fifteen polecats in
fifteen days. People could then forgive
him if he failed.
“Dr. Benson’s Celery and Chamomile Pills
for the cure of Neuralgia are a snocess.”—
Dr. G. P. Holman, Christianburg, Va. 61
els. n druggists.
Severe.— An old law in Holland con
demned criminals to be wholly deprived
of salt as the severest punishment in that
moist country. The effect was that they
were a prey to internal parasites.
“Pm happy to say Dr. Benson's Slcin Cure
has enrctl my Eczema of the scalp, of four
years' ntandinq.”— Jno. A. Andrews, Att’y at
haw, Ashton, 111. sl. Indorsed by physicians.
—One of the gold-mining companies
operating in Fulton County, New York,
has cleaned np about two hundred tons
of gravel, the amalgam yielding $750 in
gold, resembling the Australian produot.
A Splendid Remedy for Lung Disease.
Dr. Robert Newton, late President of the Eclectic
Col’ige of the City of Few York, and formerly of
Cincinnati, Ohio, used Br. Wm. Hall’s balsam
vorv extensively in His practice, as many of Mi
patients, now living, and restored to health, cat
amply testify. Ha always said that so good a rein
edy ought not to be considered merely as a patent
medicine, but that ltonghl to bs preacrlbed free'.r
by every physician at a sovereign remedy in all
cm aof Luna Disease, ft la a sure cure for Con
sumption, and has no (qua) for all pectoral cotn
plslnts
Kellinger’it I.luinirnt-
Applied to the head It, relieves headache, and
prevents the hair from falling out.
He who has fair words only is like one
who feeds the sick with an empty spoon
uid talks about gruel.
tfEXSMAN’s peptonized beef tonic, Die on
ly preparation of beef containing its entire
nutritious properties. It contains blood-ma
king, foroe-generating and life-sustaining
properties; invaluable for indigestion, dys
pepsia, nervous prostration, and all forms
of general debility; also, in all enfeebled
conditions, whether the result of exhaustion
nervous prostration, over-work or aente
disease, particularly if resulting from pul.
monary complaints. Caswell, Hazird A Cos.
proprietors, New Yotk. Bold by all drug
gist*
“No, sir,” said the passenger to the
ship’s doctor, “I’m not sea-sick, but I’m
dncedlv disgusted with the motion of the
vessel.’
Childhood' Manhood find llonry Age Kx
t’liim ia I nlson t "HfhoM the (Conqueror.”
During; o brief visit to the ancient town or Warwick,
R. !., recently, our agent extended bis trip to tho
southeastern extremity of the town, to look sbont
among the wonderful Improvement* which havs been
matfe in the appearance of Warwick Neck during a
comparatively brief period, end while conversing on this
sublet with Gel. Benjamin 8. Hscard, the popular
proprietor of the Warwick Neck Hotel, he learned that
(be greater part of the band some summer residences
bad been erected inside of a dozen rests; and he eleo
learned that Col. Hazard bad been a great sifferor from
A rhi onic disease of the kidneys end bladder over fifteen
.rears, the most painful hum of it being a stoppage or
retention of 1 he urine, which was so very severe at t race
sb to dieehle him for his accustomed work, end even
routine hnn to the lied, when a surgeon’s assistance
would barequired to relieve him. Ho was being doc
bred a large part of the time, hut could get no perma
nent relief. At times his sufferings were terrible from
sharp, cutting pains through the kidneys and bladder;
and he had euffereti kng and so severely that be hud
become discouraged of gelting well again, especially so
the dot tor stated tbs’- it wan doubtful if a man of hie
ago, with such a ccinplkated disease of longstanding,
could bo Mired. But lofit simmer, when be wab.suffer
ing lutenooly from one of these attacks, a gentleman
ydio was boaid ng at bis hotel urged and persuaded him
to try a bottle of Hunt's Hriuedy. eshehad known of
come wonderful currs effoctod by it. Mr. Hrta'd sflys
be had no fiiith in it, but consented reluctantly it;
and alter taking it only two days the intense poim- aud
aches disappeared, and ho commenced to gain
Strength rapidly, and in locs than a week was s(tending
to his accustomed work, and has never had r return of
thepsins. Mr. Hazard is over seventy years of age, and
o/ the 2dth of November, 18®, when our agent met him,
although it- was a very cold and blustering day, he was In
with bis team c.t urb pulling and fowling tur
nips, ts baie ancl T.earty a man as yon could wish for,
wheieas last August he was unable to stand up to over
tee (be work then going ou in this same field. Hunt’s
Remedy bad given Idm health and strength again, and
he recommends it to h ; e relatives and friends, sova al of
whom are now taking if, as he eontddors it a excel,
lent remedy for all diseases of kidneys orbladder.
w febrile medicine Um
failed to word off
jgJSBh. Jw Um complaint, when
iMkWkWt ■ token thiJy a a pro
toettou against pi*
lmria. Bwttiretfft of
stelaas have
abandoned all (bo
m’wkiß officinal ejv. flics. and
JfSSk noWSfOuAM-- now preserliw <bU
JkSgt&iSjUßF f: harraTrws vr-eri.-ibi*
tonic for < l.t'h cud
fever, ** w-n r -* dye
pr-pila
affection*. Jlrsfct*
ter’o Bitten In tho
K. specific you need.
BlltEPsSS 1^
— -m m xa unfailing:ana ram*
“mb. AND^iffcc'f'ajjsr
KSejJKt chants^
dies and all whose so--
deDtar \r cmpioy p ent
ofthe blood, stomach!
Mcttkfl BAitlnrulant, Bumarlua
wOfc Q If IN FNervlnt lilotbliulili.
W f Thousands procUlm II
w the most wonderful In
vlgorant that vo sustained tho si DU I ngivstem. For
brio bj all Druggists. THE DR. 8. A. RICHMOND
milllCA-L QO_ Sola Proprletora, St. Joseph, Mo.
Alex. H. Stephens.
Tlic I<ifo of this Illustrioii't Patriot
and Statesman, written by Prauk Jtl. JNorton,
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HOW TO WIN AT CAKDH, IlH®, A©
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• Koanokc Cotton PrM|
Tbe heft unit OheoyHit Hw
mode. ixmts Km than ihMir
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AND
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I / drape cotum seed,,
corn. pees,etc..t iuy
—KBBSBy dlstsuce in any mop
... bet. Covers at sane
Urns Price. (IdtCCL
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