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LETTERS OF EXPLANATION
BT IiIEUTRNANT *. W. STURDY.
They were brought about in this way.
There had been a regatta on the Schuyl
kill, at Philadelphia. Mr. Charlca Gray
flon, a resident, had boon prcaouted to
Mia* Thnrlow, a visitor. They talked
of boats and rivers, and thence drifted
to the ocean and steamers.
Said Miss Thurlow: "Sometimes I
fancy i should like to be a sailor—a real
professional sailor, I mean. I'd liko to
oommand an ocean steamer, to cross ami
recross tbo Atlantic a half-dozen times a
year."
Yes, Mr. Graydou had crossed the At
lantic several times, and generally ou
joyed his trips abroad thoroughly. He
had formed pleasant acquaintances on
steamers, which developed afterward
into close friendships. Hu hail been de
ceived, too, by outward appearances.
"I remember several years ago," he
said, "I was going over on the Canard
line. Thera was on tioard a young
clergyman whom everyone likod. We
lieoame very friendly, and spent many a
half honr walking the deck together.
Just before we reached Queenstown he
said to mo, ‘Graydon, I find myself a
little embarrassed. I haven't as much
money left as I need. Would yon lend
me fifty dollars till wo reach London ?
I’ll pay you there. I hate to ask you,
but lam roally in need of it.’ I natu
rally understood his delicacy, ami so
made light of the matter, replying
merely, 'Certainly, Waldron, I am only
too glad to bo of servioe to you,’ and i
handed him the sum he askod for. We
partod at Queenstown to meet in Lon
don; but, do you know, I have never
beard from my young clergyman sinoo.
He wore his cloak very well.”
A bright color was in Miss Thurlow's
cheeks as she asked, "Whut did you say
his namo was ?”
"Ho called himself Theodore Wal
dron, although I doubt whether that was
his real name.’’
Miss Thurlow’s brow contracted and
her eyes flashed, but she said, calmly :
"There must be some mistake. Barely
a clergyman oould not lx guilty of snob
an aot. Tell me, when did this liu|>-
pen?”
“In July, 1868. I have not I teen over
since.”
After leaving Miss Thurlow, Mr. Gray
don wondered why it was that she grow
so suddenly 000 l in her manner toward
him. "Bhe must boa clergyman’s
daughter,” thought he, and the matter
passed from his mind.
These are the lettora that ensued.
The first wus received by Mr. Graydon
some ten duys utter the regatta :
"Chioaqo, September 15, 1873.
"Mu. CaAitLza (Ibayhon, Phi la.:
"Hir:—My sister, Miss Thurlow, lms
related to me in detail her conversation
with you in Philadelphia on the occa
sion of meeting you at a regatta. Whilo
1 deplore her misfortune iu having pre
sented to her notice a man so unprin
cipled as you have Btiown yourself to bo
—a man who deserves no better name
than blackguard when he attempts to
cloud the unsullied reputation of another
—I am forced so far to rooogirizo you as
to demand a retraction ou your part of
the gross calumny you have uttered.
The Kev. Theodore Waldron is a life
long friend of mine and of my family.
Ho is not at present iu Chicago, but
even if ho wore here I should not hesi
tate to take this matter into my own
bauds. You cannot fail to understand
that I expect you to retract and apolo
gize.
Frank Thubbow.”
“Pim-AMt-PHiA, Sept. 19, 1873.
“Mb. Fit ink Thurlow, Chicago, 111.:
"Sir—Your very extraordinary letter
of the 15th inst. has been received. 1
am not ipule clear upon the subject, but
fancy yon must, have writtcu it from a
mad-house. You demand an apology, a
retraction—l dou’t quite know what. 1
am in the dark. Do 1 understand that
you expect me to confess to lying—that
you expect me to say that what 1 said of
Mr. Waldron is not true ? Why, sir,
the more 1 think of it the more am I ir
ritated. It is you that have insulted
me. It is you that will apologize. I
have spoken nothing but the truth; and
ns regards Mr. Waldron, your life-long
friend (and associate, I presume), 1 ro
iterate that he borrowed money from me
under false pretenses, and I mid now
that he deserves to lie branded publicly,
although iu justice to myself I must say
that the mention of Ida name was quite
accidental and unintentional on my part.
Miss Thurlow drow from me his name iu
full, and thus identified him. When
you have taken time to reflect you will
recognize your hastiness, and no doubt
tender me your full and ready apology.
"Chahi.es Graydon.”
“Chicago, September 26, 1873.
"Mr. Chaiu.es Graydon, Phils. :
“I hardly know what to say to you,
sir. On my return to this oity yesterday
Mr. Thnrlow laid your letter before me,
and also a oopy of the one he had previ
ously written to you. Moreover, a full
statement of your malicious and cowardly
attack has been given me. Your motive
for such action is beyond all conjecture.
"Our acquaintance was but a limited
one in point of time; still iu our cou
stuut intercourse and mutual confidence
during those few days on board ship, I
felt that you were a gentleman. My
life has not been one to give me the ex
perience and judgment neoessary to
oombat with a man so wily and un
scrupulous as yon seem to be, and yet it
is strange that a man can be refined and
gentle in manner and a scoundrel at
heart Why did yon lend me the money
at all ? Did you even then intend to in
jure me, and look to the fact as a future
weapon with whioh to strike me ? How
could you have known that I was aixjut
to marry Miss Thurlow ? What have I
ever done that you should wish to come
between us now ? I can only look upon
this dastardly aot as something beyond
my comprehension.
“Fortunately, I remember the exaci
date of depositing the money to your
credit at Mann Brothers’. I was de
tained in Ireland, and on my arrival ia
London was unable to find yon. I there
fore did all I could wheu I jnud the sum
at the bank whero you mentioned hav
ing a letter of credit.
"I have written to Mann Brothers,
and tiy return steamer shall possess a
reoeipt showing that ou August 4, 1868,
the money was paid to your account. I
have now merely to say that your
scheme has utterly failed, and tliat I
leave you to the contemplation of your
self. Thzodobk Waldron.”
Mr. Graydon read this letter, turned
to his diary, and found tliat on August
3, 1808, lie had drawn his balance at
Mann Brothers’, and left Loudon. He
rushed out, and a half-hour afterward
this cable dispatch was flashing under
the Atlantic:
“Mann liBOTHCits, London:
“Have Ia balance at your bank ? If
so, how muoh, and when was it de
(KisitedV Charles Graydon.”
The next day he received this :
“Charles Graydon, Philadelphia:
“A balance to your credit of ten
pounds six shillings. Deposited August
4, 1868.
Mann Brothers.”
The last letter :
“I’IIILADELPIA, Sept. 29, 1873
"I!kv. Theodore Waldron,
Chicago, Illinois:
"My Dear Hir:— With feelings o)
loop shame and bitter regret I offer you
in apology. Since receiving your letter
I have telegraphed to Mann Brothers,
mat have learned by their reply that
your statement ia absolutely correct. It
is perhaps useless for me to say more.
Yet, feeling that I have never had a de
sire to injure you in any way, that I have
never harbored a wish to annoy you
even, I may 1)0 allowed to state that I
left London on August 3, 1868, on which
date I drew from the banking house of
Maun Brothers all the money due me. 1
wish also to assure you that although I
linvti often related the incident of our
brief acquaintance, I never Wore men
tioned your name. My inadvertence on
tids occasion would have probably
passed unnoticed under any other cir
cumstances. For this unfortunate affair
I am more than sorry: I am humiliated,
i beg Ibat you will convey to Miss Thur
low a separate apology for haviugso uu
oonsoiously wounded her.
“Yours very contritely,
"Charles Graydon.”
Among the presents displayed at tho
wedding of the Itev. Theodore Waldron
slid Miss Thurlow, was one wliioh at
tracted no little attention—an ingenious
Swiss clock, so constructed that, on
striking, a figure representing Charity
stepped forth snd drew a veil over the
hour that had jiassed. On a card lying
near it wns written, "With the best
wisboa of Mr. Charles Graydon,”
When lie Went Aloft
“When I was a lad, my greatest de
sire was to go to sea,” remarked a well
known citizen to n reporter tho other
day. “My father was a farmer, but till
ing the soil had no charms for mu. I
was discontented, and one day my
father, thinking it was the best way to
cure me, gave his consent to my becom
ing a sailor. I was never so lmppy in
my life, and all tho boy* iu the neigh
borhood euviod mo. Before a fortnight
passed I euviod them.
"That was in the days of merchant
men, and my father was acquainted
with a merchant in New York who en
gaged iu the China trade, and to him he
gave me a line asking him to put me on
one of his vessels. The captain was a
bluff, hearty old fellow, the very beau
ideal of a sea captain—wheu on shore
I was very much pleased with his ap
pearance, but subsequently be didn’t
look half so pretty to me. He was a
thorough sailor, thongh. I never saw
the night that ho didn’t oomo ou deck
two or three times to sins that all was as
it should be.
"I felt a little bit liomesiok ns a little
tug tisik us down the bay, but 1 forgot
all about it when we got outside and
oommenoed making sail. There were
three of us boys on board, and we stood
huddled together ou the lower deck
watching the sailors as they ran out the
spars and let full the sails, and we fell
to wondering how long it would bo lit -
fore we would be required to go aloft
and lay out on a yard. One of us
thought it would l>e a month or two and
another thought it would bo six mouths.
Finally we concluded that wo would be
worked into it gradually; sent up a little
way one day, a little further tho next,
and so on until we could go all over tho
rigging. You ean imagine my surprise,
therefore, wheu, aftor all the ropes had
been coiled up, tho deck cleared and
everything made ship shape, the captain
turned to mo and Baid:
" ‘Here, youngster, do you see that
rope a-flying up there? Go up and
briug it down.’
"It was a bit of marline, about three
feet long, flying from the topmast cross
trees, and I suppose some sailor had
put it there on purpose. Gracious ! the
thought of going way tip there made my
hair stand ou end, uud I told the cap
tain 1 was afraid I couldn’t do it.
" ‘You are, eh ! Well, I can take all
that out of you !' and he started for a
rope's end.
"I didn't wait for him to get it, but
ran tip the rigging as well as I was able,
never expecting to got back alive. There
was quite a heavy sea, and the mast
swayed frightfully. If I oould have
been put back ou the farm at that mo
ment, no one would ever have heard me
say another word about goiug to sea.”
“Did you get the marline?"
“You bet I did. And wa’u't I proud
when I handed it to the onptaiu ! And
ciidu't I put on airs over the other boys :
I’d beeu aloft and they hadn’t.”
Mptton.—A London scientific paper
says that a shoulder of mutton contains
oue-third more bone than a leg, and
considerably more fat and connective
j tissue, and that, consequently, a shoul
j der at 20oents a pound is dearer than a
1 leg at 25 cent*.
NOTES IND COMMENTS.
Mb. Parnell's movements have boon
always wrapped in much mystery. He
is seldom in Ireland, and there are not
more than half a dozen to ■whom his
Loudon residence is known. His sud
den disappearance from thu scene in the
midst of more than one great crisis occa
sioned some reflection, and for some
while preceding his recent triumphant
appearance in Dublin his Cork constitu
ents oould not hear from him or ascer
tain his whereabouts.
It has ujibn said that lie cause cattle
sometimes prefer impure water to pure
drinking water, no puins should tie taken
to supply them with pure water. The
liritith Medical Journal explains to
agriculturists that tho reason for this
fact is that cattle when given tank water
are not property supplied with rock salt.
In their desire for saline food animals
will drink the most impure fluids, and
will even eat earth. Tho writer thinks
it both iujudiciiMis and cinel to deprive
cattle of salt, ami thus compel them to
leek it in rofuse.
At Leeds, lately, Mil Arthur
Nichols delivered a lecture on ".Snakes
and Hnake Charming” in whioh he gave
an instanoe of tho npg loarauea of the sea
serpent which occurned in bin own ex
perience. It turned out to tie the laxly
of a dead whale around which were col
lected thousands of gulls and albatrosses,
and which simulated the shape and form
of a monster with a mane and long tail.
It is a pfty that every master of a ves
sel from which the sea serpent is seen
has not courage enough t*> steer close to
it, so that its reul nature may be made
evident.
Tile secretary of one Western Board
of Trade bus mastered tbemlphabet of
business. "It nmy be trn**,” he writes
in euk-tnnoe, "that we lisac produced
100,000,000 bushels less than an average
wheat crop, and that Europe Vs* pro
duced 160,000,000 bushels leas than an
average erep of wheat and 7ye,” but the
trialing public, after losing two cents a
bushel per month for six mouths on the
strength of these stories, is getting tired
of lailieving them. It occurs to him that
enormous accumulations of grain, here
and abroad, tell a different Story. Ho did
the statistics, to those who d6d not prefer
to believe the storiea of uauirpnlators.
Baohifioed to itik FiWikrikh. —Sev
enteen vessels and 209 lives wore lost in
tho Gloucester fisheries during the past
year. Forty of the men are known to
have loft widows and a number of chil
dren, of whom there is a record of 68.
Seventy-one men who were capsized
or went astray in dories reached tho
shore, or wore rescued by passing ves
sels, many of them after great exposure
and suffering. A summarized list, gives
tho following figures: Total tonnage of
tho 17 vessels, 1,120; value, $91,300; in
surance, $76,972. In 1882 12 vessels,
valued at $79,700, and 115 lives were
lost. The total losses in the New Eng
land fisheries, outside of Gloucester,
principally iu Maine, were 12 vessels, of
660 tons, and 17 lives.
Shortly after Miss Aloott'h "Lit
tle Women” was jaiblished a quiet-look
ing lady entered a Boston cirealating
library and asked the lady clerk to pick
her out "a good book that would rest
aud amuse her.” Naturally “Little
Women” was offered; and declined.
"It'H very nice; you'd like it," urged the
clerk. "I should not care to rend it,”
said the other. "But at least look at
it.” "No,” came the answer, firmly,
aud with an odd smile; "it is not a book
that I should care to read.” Then tho
clerk, pretty angry, walked away to the
chief librarian and cried : "There’s a
woman down there wants a book, aud if
you want her waited on someone else
must do it. I won’t.” "Why, why
not?” "Why, she sayß ‘Little Women’
isn't gixxi enough for her to read.” "Do
you know who that, lady is?" "No, and
I don’t care.” "Well, I’ll tell you.
That is Ismisa M. Aloolt. Now go and
get her a book.”
The imixirtant matter of irrigation
ia receiving much attention in Colorado.
Until recent years little was done iu this
regard beyond tlie digging of ditches or
flumes a few rods in length. In the last
few years, according to tfie Denver
Tribune, companies with large capital
have been organized, with the object of
bringing under cultivation the thousands
of acres of land, otherwise arid, but
which with proper irrigation prove as
arable and fertile as the most favored
farming sections in the rich West. This
new industry of irrigation not only pro
vides labor for hundreds of men and
teams, but adds to the wealth of Colo
rado by increasing the acreage of arable
lands aud swelling the aggregate volume
of natural products, notably cereals,
fruit aud vegetables. Two blades of
grass aro made to grow where one grew
before, and Colorado, from lxing de
pendent for home consumption upon
natural products imported from other
States, is fast becoming a source of sup
ply for Eastern markets.
A Mexican Hurricane.
A hurricane occurred on the Mexican
coast on November 4, which entirely de
stroyed tho town of Altata, at the port
of that name. Not a house remained
standing, aud vessels and launches at
anchor suffered severely. At Mazatlan
the wind blew with great violence, aud
the sen was excessively rough. Wheu
the gale commenced the Mexican steam
er Dewoerata and barks Carlos Paladin
snd Harmpdius were at anchor. The
Paladin out away her anchqjp, losing
her first mate in the operation, as he was
washed overboard and drowned. She
then commenced to drift, and finally,
after striking ou the rocks in front of
Olas Atlas, drifted on the beach at
Puerto Viejo, near the Cameron. Her
crew succeeded in reaching the shore,
with the exception of two, who were
■frowned. The Haimodius sent down
i her upper masts and yards, aud rode
i the gale out iu safety.
THE EDITOR’S CONSCIENCE.
A War Story Told by a Wr.lern Editor.
[From Peck’s Sun.)
To-day a letter came from the business
office to the editorial desk, and wheu the
editor opened it and saw the date-line
“Troy, Alabama," his heart smote him,
and he reached for his check-book, in
stinctively. Then he stopped and read
the letter, and breathed freer when he
found that it was only a letter from a
boy who wanted the editor's autograph.
What could have caused the editor’s
heart to jump up into his month when
he opened that letter from Troy ? What
made him reach for his clieek-book ?
Reader, young reader particularly, the
editor once stole a horse at Troy, Ala
bama. Do not hold up your hands in
horror, at the deed, and say you have
always mistrusted that the bald-headed
man, with the pleasant face, was a horse
thief in disguise, for you have never
thought any such thing. Besides, a
man was not considered a horse thief in
those days who took another man’s horse.
It was in 1864, aud a cavalry regiment
to which the editor belonged made a raid
through that portion of Alabama, and
one afternoon stopped at the beautiful
little village of Troy. There was a thin,
pale, nervous, red-headed soldier in the
regiment who had been riding a hard
hearted, deceptive, diabolical, disgusting
mule for a week, a mule that didn't care
whether school kept or not, a mule that
would not keep up with the jirocessiou,
and tried hard to lag liehind so the
rebels would capture the red headed sol
dier. To keep up with the regiment it
was necessary to wear out a pair of
spurs, a olaplxiard, two fence rails and
the rider, every blessed day, on the
mule, and much of the hatred of mules
which the present editor has was bom of
that experience. That evening tho sol
dier gave of his rations to a little oolored
boy who looked smart, and told him to
always be a good boy, aud learn to read,
and tie kind to his old master, and he
would lie all right, wheu tho colored lxjy
told where there was a line horse in a
pasture a few miles away, a "turrer
bred” he said. There is no person ex
cept one who has ridden a mule a week
who can appreciate a story alxmt a flue
horse belonging to tho enemy. The
mule was saddled, and soon the soldier
and tho colored boy, and another soldier
and another colored boy, were trying to
catch that horse. O, ho was a beauty.
As ho galloped across tho pasture and
noighed and snorted and put on scallops
he looked liko a picture.
It. wus not long before the red-headed
soldier's saddle was on the fine horse
aud tho procession rode up by tho plant
er's house. All, there was tho mb. The
old mother and father of the boy who
owned the fine horse, who was in tho
confederate army, sat on the veramla.
They had seen tho soldiers go through
tho granary, the smoke house, and
everything where they oould get any
thing to eat, and the old jx-ople hail not
murmured. They sat there smoking
cora-oob pipes, acting as though in war
times they must submit to war measures.
But when the red-headed soldier rode by
on tho beautiful horse, his canteen aud
sabre rattling, aud the horse looking so
proud, as though he had beeu left out of
the war, aud was now goiug in fresh to
put a stop to it, tho old folks saw the
animal, the old lady said, "Oh, pa, tho
Yankees have fouud Hub’s horse,” and
then they both buret out crying.
"Bub,” tho bravo young confederate,
was away with his regiment, and jxior
old pa and ma lmd to sit there and see
hiß horse go off with tho Yankees. Tho
slim soldier had a heart conoeuled alxmt
Ins person even then, and he thought of
his old father and mother in Wisconsin,
and lie lmd half a mind to take the horse
back, notwithstanding the fact that an
other soldier would take him iu a holy
minute, but just then tho bugle sounded
fertile "assembly," the soldiers yelled
and spurred their horses toward camp,
and the new horse liegun to prance and
wanted to go along so bad, that the slim
soldier “let him went,” and a beautiful
race it was. For nearly two years after
that horse was the constant companion
of tho slim soldier, who rodo him alxmt
ten thousand miles more or less, but
there was hardly a day of all those
long marches that he did not think of
the poor old fattier aud mother of the
soldier boy who owned the horse, aud of
their tears when they saw the noble ani
mal go dow-u the lane carrying a Yan
kee, when they would have beeu so de
lighted to have seen their owu gray
coated soldier ou liis back. And so it
was, when we opened the letter from the
boy who wanted our autograph, who was
probably unborn when tho horse was
taken, wo oiuno so near put ting tho auto
graph on a cheek and sending it to the
old people who smoked the cob pipes
nineteen years ago and wept over the
horse.
A Novel Plot.
Philadelphia furnishes a capital plot
for a novelist. A lady named Hardy
married James Black, a wealthy trades
man. Iu her own right she inherited
considerable property, which involved
her in a long and tedious lawsuit. She
entored into a written contract with
Joseph F. Farrar, an insurance agent to
give him a largo share of the estate if he
would collect the necessary evidence and
establish her identity. This agreement
was lodged with a lawyer for safe keep
ing. The case was a long time in the
courts, and a decision in Mrs. Black's
favor was finally reached only a short
time since. Meantime Mr. Farrar had
died. He had for years been estranged
from his wife and all trace of his only
heir, a daughter, named Frances Joseph
ine, was missing. Under a provision in
the father's will and at the desire of
Mrs. Black, the lawyer with whom the
agreement was placed entered upon an
active search for the child, aud after
much difficulty succeeded last week in
finding her.
It is said that the Chinese giam
speaks eight languages. He’s not a tab
ui.oraut.
A LIVE AMERICAN f.IIU, ABROAD.
A Marveloua Dream.
Last summer I was “doing Loudon" as
thoroughly as an American woman without
escort can, when one morning, after catching
prudent glimpses of what remains of the “St.
Giles," Immortalized by Hogarth or Douglas
Jerrold, and of the “Seven Dials," I turned
into New Oxford street (which Is top|>ed by
Tottenham court road iind ends at >1 mile's
Library;. Wulklng along towards Hoi born (
found myself In voluntarily snipping before
one of ihu prettiest fronts I hud yet seen.
Naturally I looked up and saw above the
number 6 an n sthetic looking sign against
the front (for projecting signs are lnaduilsii*
blc In the great metropolis', on which I read
“Dr. Pierce’s Medicines.” At once I gave a
little ojaculatlon of Joy, and fulrly rushed
Into the shop. Why! 1 hud been during two
w hole duys lamenting the awkwardness of a
railway porter, who, in my transit from
Southampton, after landing, had so carelessly
handled my “box" (trunk Is also inadmissible
In England) as to break not only my supply of
Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery, that I
had brought from New York, but all of his
Purgative Pellets iso advisable to ladles In
traveling; excepting u bottle 1 had In my
reticule. The clerk appeared to notice my
satisfaction us I looked around and saw a
portrait of Dr. Piero , whose no juaintunce I
had first made at a ball In the White Houro,
when he was Congressman from tho fine city
of liuffalo, and saw pictures of Its World's
Dispensary building and of its Invalids*
Hotel, In which 1 had been a guest patient (as
well, let me add, as a patient guest) during a
course of treatment with World's Dlsj>©uary
medicines, which had changed mo from a
nervous, dyspeptic, fretful woman into tho
cheerful and healthful traveler 1 now found
myself to be. The clerk wus vastly polite as
I told him what a surprise It w as to me to find
that the boons of my life time had found a
home In Loudon. “Why,” ho interrupted,
with a smile, “the medicines of which this is
the European entrepot have won thousands
of grateful patients as enthusiastic as you
Seem to be.” Of course in a short time the
mishap with the railway porter was forgot
ten, and, after giving an order for anew as
sortment of the “Golden Discovery" and
“Pellets” sent to my lod/ingi in B *rnal
street, I was again threading my way through
tho London crowds. Fatigued with the day’s
exercise and enjoyment I retired early to
bed, and with the pleasant Incident of Oxford
street well to the fore in my mind as I fell
asleep. What wonder that I dreamed, or that
my fancies traveled across tin* /tl mtic to
Buffalo and to the Invalid-t’ Hotel, which hod
to ino tho same graceful memories us tho
church of her marriage has to the happy
wlfo.
I seemed to be In a palace car between Al
bany aud Buffalo, and the newsboy had
brought mo a copy of the marvelous book
sold freely on alt the tra-in, “The People's
Common Sense Medl al Adviser," by Dr.
Pierce, ex Senator uud exh ongressman. I
wa* again reading its pages, expressed, as all
medical books for the people shoti'd bo ex
pressed, in ‘ plain English.'' and which is
full of everything relating to tho ills which
flesh Is heir to, so that the book may bo
well called the Tuva’lds' Bible and the Testa
ment for the already strong, who would keep
themselves always strong. The book, which
take* the child in the cradle through all tho
Ills of nutrition und dentition th * mother in
her agonies; the husband In bis depressions;
the father in his sinterings fTorn overwork;
and shows each and ail >und even the practic
ing physician, who thinks he knows so much
and yet has always new things to learn) how
the brain is weakened in functions, the lung
poisoned, the bio wl contaminated, the liver
made torpid, the heart disarranged, the
muscles mode rigid, ti c nerves shattered, and
the tissues and absorbents infected with tho
subtle poisons of excesses and malaria And
finally, the precious volume —the verleat
gospel of health iu this world - turns tho
reader’s attention to the Golden Medical Dis
covery, that, whether it is urod upon tho
poroaof the body or sent Into the channels
of tho body through the processes of
assimilation and digestion immediately “cools
the brow and tampers the brain, and niAkcth
the faint one strong again." In my dream 1
had arrived at Buffalo, given my book to an
interesting ia valid of u > irl who sat noar mo,
and whoso modestly tilled purse seemed to
forbid her the boon of the book albeit it was
so unusually cheap—six pages of the profuse
ly Illustrated book tor each cent of Its dollar
and a half cost! And I had been repaid by
her looks o' gratitude. Then in my dream
the onoo familiar sound of “ Dr. Pierce's
World's Diaponuary and Invalids' Hotel" was
hoard from the healthy and attentive porters
awaiting the arrival of patients. Then 1 was
driven to the old place with Its revlvi&cut’ous
of architecture and t orator *.
As I drove up I seemed to see tho hotel In
a blaze of light, and heard mu-de and the
sounds of happy voices and of lightly moving
feet. More surprised than ever before I u; s
taken in hand by a female attendant —as
bright looking as these ever are in dream
land, and in n moment, as it seemed, w as clad
In full evening costume, and soon, escorted
by an usher, was entering the great dining
room, transformed into a salon of reception.
At one cud in huge electric letter* 1 saw the
i words, “Welcome, restored old patients,"—at
the other end, “Dr. Pierce, the Hotel Ko md
cr,” —in the center of one long side. “Ooiden
Medical Discovery,” and along the ceiling,
also iu electric letters, “Purgative Pellets.'
As soon us this wonderful spectacle of
dreamland had become sufflciently natural
ized to my dazed senses l looked around and
saw such happy congratulatory groups as
made tno think i was indeed in a phase of
Paradise. With words of whispered assur
ance, the ush r led me to the highest por
tion of the room, where sat a Cleopatra-like
woman of rare l> *auty and condescendirrg
carriage. “Permit in**, oh, Queen of Hea th,
to present to you another of your subjects—
she who only a year ago was, without her
will, excluded from, blit has now re entored,
your dominions.” She placed her cool hand
In mine, the which as I kissed a thrill of new
delight ran over my veins, and with a sceptro
headed with a charmingly cut bottle of silver
bearing in monogram the letters “G. M. D.,“
she touched both my eyes which seemed to
anew drink In ih<* gorgeous sight around me.
•SVndnow," said the Queen of Health, “let me
present you to my Prime Minister. ’ Timed
with her gesture to the right, l turned my eyes
ami there saw, in evening costume, a robust
gentleman of moliutn stature, who was
in physi | ue tho very ideal type of
American manhood. He scorned the
very embodiment of healthful vigorous
vitality, and on his full lofty brow
1 saw great indications of comprehensive
mental power, sweet benevolence, unvary
ing courtesy, tender sympathy, and business
sagacity. Ho smiled and extended his hand.
When l recognised him In the instant, and
rushing impetuously towards him seemed in
my dream to say, “Oh, Queen, this niy pre
server, my ever to be remembered physician.
Dr. Pierce.” He greeted mo as warmly as 1
greeted him. At this the mude struck up
congratulatory chords in unison Ith the
beating of my heart, and he whispered in my
car. “My l>est delight (and to it I have given
my life, ev en at the sacrifice of a public
carer and promised honors) Is to benefit
those whom illn 'ss and disease afflict."
A fresh procession of guests arriving at the
foot of the throne ot the Queen of Health,
and demanding her attention, as it seemed to
me Iu my exhilarating dream, as well as the
attention of her Prime Minister Pierce, I re
ceded with my escort, and was soon mingling
with th<‘ happy groups, the members of which
seemed bout upon enthusiastically exchang
ing with each other me nories of their happy
experience under the advice, whether hero or
at their homes, ot Dr. Pierce, through his
books and through hit* medicine* now con
trolled by a s, ndiou • of capitalists, under
the title o' tho ■ World's Dispensary Medical
Association." “I was a sickly schoolgirl,"
said ono, “ignorant of the very rudiments of
physiology, aud n victim Internally to my ir
norance. but the * Med cal A ivisor’ recom
mended the ‘Favorite Proscription’an lit soon
restored tue to bellehood, and here I am, full
of health and gratitude." Her escort was
a Harvard student, who told me that a short
time previous he had been worn by indiscreet
alternations of Boston pleasure-seeking and
Cambridge study, a very martyr to poisoned
blood and dyspepsia,but “Medical Discovery,"
he joyously added “not onh made me what
1 am, but. by its coustant use. keeps me what
1 am." As he moved away with the young
lady, his affianced wife, I could not but regret
the small numbers in good society of as hand
some healthy young fcliuW* as he. “I.” ro*
marked a plump mattpon iu black velvet and
diamonds, “had all tub world oould give me ex
cept health. Weexhauste I the baths of Europe
and spent what to some would tea fortune
on ‘eminent’ physicians of Paris, until I re
turned h< to die. But chance more
chance, I am now ashamed to say —throw
I>r. Pierce's ‘Favorite Prescription’ in
my way, and all my weaknesses vanished
as the dew before the rising mid summer
sun. Iu two month* I was a well woman.”
The powerful voice of a bar.tone,
pressed into the service of a song-still in my
dream—at one of the grand pianos of the In
valids’ hotel, aroused my wonder, and fom
the possessor of tho voice whs exciting our
marvel bv the narration of how he owed it,
after a total destruction of voice by bron
chitis, to an entire reoxv gar-nation of lun s
anti threat, through “Golden Discovery,"
which wa now hts constant cou pinion,
urucofully danciutf iu tho ensuing quadrille,
1 saw a gciiUcLuttU whom I wus assured had
not long ago been crippled with rheumatism
beyond even the palliation of the Hot Springs
of ArkanftAA, yet who, tinder “Golden Dis
covery," had roomed to renew his strength,
like the fa vert'd of the Psalmist’s song. A*
1 moved about from group to group, 1 hoard
but one strain told in inuny ways—and
that how marvelously, in its one great
mission of purifying the blood
(which wait the fountain of health
or disease) the Golden Med cal lKs .mvcry
had come to their homes—iu some instances
after year* of suffering and tiroless expendi
tures—to renovate, and to make the names of
I>r. Pleroeand the World’* Dispensary Medical
Association household words of cheer. Borao
hud been cured by h© Discovery of great
eating ulcers, that had gnawed away at their
flesh for years despite all the usual remedies.
Others had been restored to the full vigor of
health after one lung had been wasted by
consumption (which is scrofula of the lungs),
and after night-sweat*, spitting of blood, and
kindred symptoms, had manifested them
selves. Various forms of scrofulous diseases,
as fever-sore*, white swellings, and hip-joint
disease, had been conquered with tiro world
famed blood-purifier Golden Medical Dis
oovery.
Presently a bugle from the orchestra gavo
the summons to supper and all the guests be
gan to pair. Little N'ubiun boys in scarlet
uniforms (bright as everything bright is in
dreamlund; then glided in bearing little silken
peunons, each exposing the words “Hope
In G. M. D.,“ which they distributed In lino
or inarch, and which each guest Joyfully bore
aloft. Another bugle call for attention, and
1 saw two venerable, sweet faced men of
Greo au features approaching the Queen of
Health, holding in their hands two wreaths of
ever/ieen—the veritable laurel from tho
Athenian groves. She stepped from her
throne, as complaisant monarch* do, aud
raised them to her dais. Another bugle for
silence and she spoke: “My guests, before we
sup an interesting ceremony remains. He
ou my right is Hippocrates from the Spirit
Land. Ho on my left is /Esculuplu*. They
come to crown our Dr. Piero© with the great
laurels of his noble profess on—they the great
Past Grand Masters of the Healing Art, who
best know who is conqueror of disease." In
a moment Dr. Pierce was alout bending his
knee in respectful obeisance to these ancient
Professors when a gesture from both ar
rested him. as with daintv but dignified mo
tions they p need upon his head tho laurel
leaves—each saving In u unison of musical
monotone, “Thou urt our legitimate suc
cessor,” while a burst of orchestral acclaim
and a chorusof thank* riving huzzas from the
guests arose. I ram l and ately at ove this royal
and supornatur.dlf'looklng tableau I saw in
pillars of rosy light these gn at words, the
motto of tli''crowned Dr. Pierce, and which
reveals the se ret of his almost divino suc
cess, “Thk Hi.ooo is tii*; Life."
And with that I awoke, in rny quaint little
lodging*, to find <un unusual thing for Lon
don at early morning any day) cheery sun
light streaming into the room, as there upon
my toilet table were my restored adjunct* to
continued life and happiness—the Oxford
street supply of Go den Medical Discovery,
the guarantee of iny continuing health.
Dfiir re id *r, although the foregoing is only
the narration of n dream, yet it but truthfully
reflect* the marvelous cures wrought by those
world-famed medicines that have, from their
Intrinsic merit*, become standard remedies
in all civilized countr e* for the commoner
ills of mankind.
Resolved.
The Secretary of the Lime-Kiln Clnb
announced au official communication
from the Commissioner of Agriculture
setting forth the fact that he had suc
ceeded in making sorghum at a cost of
only $1.02 cents a pound, and asking the
Club to assist him in circulating the
glorious news among the laboring men
of the country.
Nelson Blabs thereupon ottered the
following resolution;
“fiemleed, I)at de tlmnks of dis Club
an’ de 5,000,000 people it represents am
extended to de Commissioner fur his
patient an* successful efforts to bring de
pi ice of shugar widift de reach of ebery
poo’ family in America.”
Judge Congo removed his coat, vest,
collar and neck-tie to prepare himself
for a speech iu opposition, but he was
cut down and the resolution put to a
vote. The result stood: Ayes, 121;
noes, 14. —Detroit Free PreMs,
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