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A BROOK SONG.
I'm liast ninp from the distant hill*
With swift and noisy flowing,
Nursed by a thousand tiny rills,
I’m ever onward going.
The willows cannot stay my conrro,
With ail their pliant wooing;
I sing and sing ’ill I am hoarse,
My prattiii 0 ' way pursuing.
I kins the pebbles as I pasß,
Ami hear them say they love mo,
1 imke obeisance to the grass
That kindly bends alove me.
So onwa and through the meads and dell*
I hasten, never knowing
secret motive that Impels,
Or whit hi r I am going.
A little child gomes often her©
To watch my quaint commotion,
As I go tumbling, swift and clear,
l>own to the distant ocean;
Arid as ? plays upon my brink,
So thoughtless and so merry,
Bo full ef noisy song, I think
The child is like me, very.
Tlirough all the years of youthful play,
With ne’er a thought of sorrow,
We, prattling, speed upon our way,
Unmindful of the morrow;
Ave, through those sunny meads and delli
We gambol, never knowing
The so t mn motive that impels,
Or whither we are going.
And men come here to say to me:
“L kc yon, with weird commotion,
Oh little singing brooklet, we
Are hastening to an ocean;
Down to a vast and inirfly deep.
With Heeling tears and laughter,
W go, nor ruff until wo sleep
In that profound Hereafter.
What tides may boar our souls along,
What n.i-lister rise appalling,
Whit distant shop s may hear our song
And answer to our calling.
Ah, who can say ! through meads and dell*
We wander, never knowing
The awful motive that impels,
Or whit In r we are going !”
—Jiugrue Fold in Spirit of the Time t.
jST <?x 1M y Heart.
It a hot afternoon in July, city
and country were alike baking and broil
ing beneath the direct raya of a blazing
cun. Hut in the Htiudl cottage of the
Harledeatis, on the lindson, all win
ouolucbh, greenery and aliudc. Vases of
flowers stood in tlie open windows, blos
soming vines wreathed over the veran
das, and the interior, with its inoss
oolcred carpets, its whi'o curtains, and
light chairs and sofas of bamboo and
cane, was a sight most refreshing to
eyes that had been wearied all day long
wi'h the dust of travel or the b inding
glare of city blocks and streets.
At bor dressing-table in a front upper
room, sat Lizz.i* Hnzledcnu the mistress
of the pretty cottage and wife of the
‘ rising young lawyer” of Hprimo street,
'‘Young lawyer” ho was culled by his
friemln at the same age, and by the
newspaper reporters who bad occasion
fo speak of him. Yet he was two and
forty years of age, and anooesg ha ! but
just begun to grow ac<]uiuu(ed with Ins
mime.
An i L azut—bright, gypayish, dark
eyed J< '/-/if —who had lieeti a beauty
ami a b I o in in r yniuiK day*—in her
youiij days I—ilhh ! he began to own to
heir-- II (long after other women had naid
it Of her, mind yon), that Vh wan grow
ing old. The young dava were lilt be
hind forever and L'zaie, though she
still li' |>! her bright cheeks, and spark
lug eyes and iiglle step, Lizzie was
forty years of age oil tills very day We
first behold lier.
Sin' sut at her glass, half-hiding her
face behind tier clasped hands. Bho
lul l no longer a desire to look at that too
faithful mirror. Only this afternoon it
had revealed a moat unwelcome truth fo
her. There on eaoli side of her rounded
temples, she had discovered a narrow
path of white among the jetty tresaes of
which she had so long been proud. A
gray lour here and there had not mat
tered heretofore. Bhe had pulled them
out half seri aisly, half laughingly, when
ever she had happened to see them. Hut
now, not “ton," but a hundred- nay, a
thousand seemed to “oome to their fu
neral.” In a'year or bo, at this rate, tiie
w hole, soft glossy mass would have lost
its brilliant black another year, at moat,
aud then she would be quite nu old wo
man, with hair as white as her own
grand mother's had been !
Bln -I iiuie llnzledenn —an “old
lady,' a gray no, a white-haired wo
man 1
Could il bo possible 1 Her heart was
you ( a- ever 1 When she played with
little 1. zzie on the lawn, at ball, or bat
tltyloor, and shuttlecock, it was hard to
gay which most enjoyed the game, she,
or the child of tlvo years. She oouhi
walk sr far and a fist as in her girlhood.
She could oversee her household affairs
as well ns ever, lint the white hair was
there la-fore her, ever repeating its ter
rible lesson—" Growing old, growing
old !"
It was nearly tea-time. She could
hear little Lizzie talking on the lawn, to
tier pot kitten and her doll about the
"time fi t papa to come, and what would
paps tiring them when he came."
1> wn-stairs in the kitchen, and in the
dimne room, below her ebamler, she
heard the ring and tinkle of glsss. and
silver, and china, and knew that the ser
vant w vs doing lier best to have every
t' "'c in order be'oro the master arrive:',.
V‘-t sl e sat still before her mirroi,
wining away a tear new and then, and
ole king back a sob. Of what ne wen
all the aria of the toilet now? Ho*
long won'd Walter love lier after she
was old and pray ?
Kn Idenly there was a wild err of de
light from the lawn, and Bridget l>egnr
toflvfoand fro iti her dominions more
swiftly than ever.
TTad W-i'ter come? Tt was fullv ball
an bous his usual time.
Terz-e anrangto the window, screened
heraetf from otwervation behind the cur
tain. and peeped out.
Vi-s, there was herhnhand tossing hia
child in the air. looking cool and hand
some in his white linen suit and-lark
blue tie. while little Lizzie was hke a
fa-rv in her white mnahn drea* an t rose,
colored rilil -oi-s and the band of roew
fist fastened hock her long, dark cups.
Rut wtio was that l-eside them smil
ing st the excited child, and talking tc
\V -Iter in such low. sweet tones ?
A tall, elegant woman, slender, up
right and graceful, dal in the perfec
tion of a I’arisian walking toilet, with a
fluffy cloud of golden hair shadowing
her low, white forehead, beneath the
bonnet of lac,- and tulle.
Mrs* Hazledean gazed at the nnwel
come visiter in astoniahment aud horror,
as she recogniz 1 her at last.
Mildred r-n* x. of all women in the
world ! .Mildred Pontifex. the blonde
beauty of Philadelphia, the gTeat heir
ess. who, as Dame Humor had once
whispered would gladly, in her girl- j
hood, have thrown herself and her
of of dollars at the
feet of her cousin, Waiter Hazledean !
Oh, horror ! horror t And the house
just about to receive its second summer
cleaning—the guest ohamtier with its
carpet taken np and its enrtains taken
down, in preparation for the woman who
was to come on the morrow to scrub and
purify; the cold bread and fmit for tea,
according to Walter’s simple tastes; the
impossibility of adding anything mare
except mid meat and salad* which there
was scarcely time to prepare; her own
nnfinlshed toilet, when the kitchen and
pantry demanded her presence on the
instant, if the credit oflier tea-table was
to be saved; her eyes still red from tears,
and that hateful, hatefnl stripe of gray
hair on either side of her temples,
while blondo hair seldom changed
its bne—all these troubles massed
themselves in one vast heap in poor Mrs.
Bnzledean’, mind, driving her nearly
distracted, as her husband knocked at
her bed-room door.
“We have an unexpected gnest to tea,
darling,” he said in a low tone, for she
bad not unlocked the door. “On the
Ixiat I met Miss Pontifex—my cousin
Mildred, you know, my dear. Bbe is
going to Hyde Park on a visit, and fier
luggage is there oy this time. lint I
persuaded her to stop a few honrs with
us and take tea, and afterward yon and
I will see her to Hyde Park by the nine
o’clock train, if yon like, love.”
Mrs. Hazledean listened to this agree
able programme in silence, commanding
In rself at its end sufficiently to say;
“Very well, Walter. lam not quite
dressed. You must entertain your
cousin till tea is ready, and after tea wo
will consult together about yonr plan.”
“Ail right, love. Don’t lie long,” re
plied her husband gaily, as he went
down stairs.
Mrs. Hszledean gave herself no further
tune for thought. Dashing down into
the kitotien by the back stairs hlio oon
coetod a salad as speedily as possible,
cut thin slices of cold moat, and thicker
slices of fruit and sponge cake, sent the
pirl flying into the darkest recesses of
the store-room for choice preserves, and
with a last order or two to the bewil
dered girl hurried back to her toilet.
The waving, curling tresses wire
speedily brushed and fastened up in a
mass at the back of her head—a wliito
muslin dress, dotted wilh points, and
trimmed with pink ribbons under lace,
was quiekly assumed; and after bathing
hor eyes in rose-water till the traces of
team were entirely washed away, the
little wife tripjied into the eool parlor to
welcome her unwelcome guest.
A few moments afterward they were
seated around the tea-table, and in the
duties that devolved upon hor there,
Lizzie had ample excuse tor silence.
But her husband and his guest con
versed constantly, their talk going back
to the days of old, of winch she knew
nothing, to persons and places unknown
to her, but familiar to their earlier lives
us household words.
Who felt shut out from their very ex
istence, slid sat in her place, growing
paler and paler with every word that wim
exchanged between the two.
Ouoe or twice elio saw her husband
looking at her, with nu overcast and
tumbled face.
Then he w.nld turn onou more to the
beautiful guest, and Ins eyes and smile
would brighten again; his voice would
lake a livelier and gayer tone. Hho
could nol blnino him; and yet it cut her
to the very heart.
Tea over at last, and they ndjonrned
to the parlor. Unbidden, Mildred sat
down to the piano. Hbo touched ttio
keys witii a masterly skill, aud let her
rich full soprano voice float out upon the
evening air, in operatic love songs, oau
souets, ballads and old familiar melodies
known only to our eager days of youth.
Walter leaned over the piano like one
entranced. Mildred would say : “Do
you remember this?" “Have you for
golten that?" and then would oomo an
other old-time song, to which the lawyer
seemed to listen with all his heart and
soul.
“Hark I what was that ?” said he, at
length starting from the piano to
listen.
"The whiatle of the last city train, 1
fear,” said Mildred, glanoing at the toy
watch at her girdle, "My train will bo
hero in a very few minutes. What a
happy, happy evening tlna hoa boon,
and what a dear little home you have
hero, Cousin Walter. And a dear little
wife, too, if she will allow mo to say so
in her presence," added tho siren, ap
proaching the corner whore poor L zzie
had sat alone, believing horsolf quite
neglected and forgotten.
Lizzie rose aud received the compli
ment, and mode her ndien with rather
a ghastly smile.
No, she would not go with them in
the train to Hyde Park, if she would
excuse her. Blie had a bad headache—
it liud lieen coming on all day—and she
would be tiest in bed.
Bo the siren parted from Mrs. Ilozle
dean with a well expressed regret and a
light perfumery kiss, and Walter went
with her to the station aud thenoe to
Hyde Park, where he was to place her
safely ui tho care of e. poo taut friends.
.••*
Nearly an hour passed before he lifted
the latch of Ins garden gate again.
Glancing np at Lizzie’s bedroom win
dow he suw that it was dark.
"Poor child! 1 hope she is sound
asleep by this time,” he said, as he
halted in the porch to light his last
cigar.
"No—l am not asleep,” said a voice
out ot the darkness, so close to lum that
it made him start.
"Lizzie, my darling, is this you?
Why are yon not in bed, my dear ?”
"1 could not go.”
"But your head will bo worse for sit
ting tip like this. lam sure you must
have suffered agonies all through this
evening, my love. When I Raw yon turn
so pale at tho tea table I could have
gone aud kuocked my own head against
the wall.”
“But why?" asked Lizzie, surprised
at his toue.
“For being such a stupid brute as to
bring home company without knowing
whether you were ill or well,” was the
reply. • 'But you see, my darling, I met
her unexpectedly ou tho boat, and what
could I do? To tell the plain truth, my
dear, she invited herself here to tea, but
of course I couldn't explain that to you
at tho bed room door, while she was
standing in the hali below. Aud all
through the evening I was looking and
lougiug for the whistle of that city tram.
1 knew you must be suffering tortures
you were so pale aud still, and 1 enter
tained her, in your place, to the l>est of
my ability; but, bv George! it was
hard work. Poor Mildred, she used to
l>e nice, pretty, simple-hearted, inno
cent little girl, and I loved her as a sis
ter in our y u:g days. But now, be
tween her Parisian dress and Parisian
affectations, her paint and powder, and
patches and false' hair, she does not
seem l.ke the same person to me at all.
In fact, little wife, you are the best com
pany I can have in this world, and I
sometime* think I don't care if l never
have any other uil I die. How is the
poor little head new ? Leon it on my
shoaidci-rHSo. "
Ho drew Her nearer ana preasea ms
I lips fondly upon her forehead.
"I am so thankful, dear, that yon are
just what you are !’’ ho went on. “This
hiding the advance of years is a false
and terrible thing to me. Poor Mildred!
she was gray many a year ago, and yet
she fancies that she can cheat everyone
into believing her young again by the
arts of her toilet.”
“Paint—powder—false hair 1” mur
mured Lizzie, wonderingly. “Walter,
are you sure ?”
“Why, where are your eyes that you
could not see them?” said he, laughing.
“Hut I forget that you have not known
Mildred from her earliest years, as I
have. To me the change is plain
enough. Thank heaven! von will
never so degrade yonrself, my dear.”
"Then—you don’t object to—yon
don’t dislike gray hair, Walter?” asked
Lizzie, anxiously.
“What a question. Wait till yonr
hair turns white, my love, and you will
see that it is as dear to me as when it is
as black as now.”
“But, oh, it is white already,” said
poor Lizzie, almost hysterically. “And
she was so beautiful and graceful and
accomplished—so perfectly dressed, too
—and she sang so beautifully, and yon
listened, Walter, and you talked to her,
and 1 waH only a poor, pale, silent crea
ture, and, oh, dear, only look at this.”
She lifted the dark tresses aside,
showed him the gray locks upon her
temples, and burst into tears. It was
just one of those utterly absurd, hyster
ical, nonsensical outbreaks that a wo
man, now and then, must give way to or
die, and that a man oan never check in
a better or more kindly way, than
Walter Hazledean did, by a silent em
brace and kiss.
Gradually the wife grew calm. Ly
ing there upon his faithful heart, and
listening to his whispered words, she
said how unwarranted all her jealous
suspicion and suffering had been.
“You will bo wiser another time, my
love,” said her husband, as they turned
to enter the house together. “But, in
case yon should ever, through illness, or
from any other reason, distrust me
again, let mo have a talisman to carry
with me that will recall to yon all that
we have talked about to-night.”
Lilting the dark tresses aside, ho took
a small penknife front his ]>ockct and
severed a whitened lock.
“There, Lizzie, love, I’ll wear that
next my heart forever,” he said, raising
it to his lips.
Ho led her in, and the door of their
home closed between them and all the
folly and suffering of the outer world.
Randolph's Stormy Death.
Tho last days of John Rvndolpli, < f
Roanoke, are full of pathos. Ho thought
lie was dying for years before he did so,
and when be was asked how ho was he
would reply : “Dying! dying! dying I"
Tie was tyrannical and dictatorial to the
j lout, and lie fought with his doctor on
his death-bed over the pronunciation of
I certain words, ilia death occurred in a
Philadelphia hotel. A few minutes be
fore he died the doctor wanted to leave
him, hilt Randolph objected and lus
slave took the key, locked tho door aud
put the key in his pocket. With his
last words Riudolph declared that ho
wanted Ins slaves freed, and he kept the
doctor there ns n witness of bis dying
declaration. A sceptio through life, he
appreciated his condition when ou his
death-bed, and among his last words
was "remorse.” He was lying perfectly
quiet, with his eyes closed, when In-sud
denly roused np and screamed out in an
agitated voice: "Remorse! remorse!
remorse I” lie then oried out : “Let me
see tho word ! Get a dictionary ! Lot
me aoo the word!” There was no dic
tionary at hand, and ho was told so. He
exclaimed : “Write it, then ! Let mo
see the word 1” The doctor pickod up
onenf his cards labelled “Randolph, of
Roanoke.” “Bliall I write it on this?”
“Vos; nothing mi re proper,” was. Ran
dolph’s reply. The word remorse was
written on it in pencil and handed to
him. He looked at it a moment with
great intensity. “Write it on the back,”
ho exclaimed It was done and handed
him again. He looked at it with his
blazing eyes. “Remorse!” lie said,
"you can have no idea of it whatever; it
has brought me to my present situation
—but 1 have looked to Jesus Christ and
I hope to obtain pardon," He then
asked the doctor to dtaw a line under
Uie word and told him to keep tho
card.
A short time after th s his keeu eye
began to dull, bis powerful mind gave
way, und within two hours ho died.
Our Disappearing Forests.
The rookleiss improvidence with which
the forests of this country are being de
stroyed is likely to bring ita own punish
ment with it. Prof. Sargent's report
upon the present condition of cur for
ests has been published as a part of the
tenth census. From this it appears tho
loss from forest tires alone amounts to
upward of £20,000,000 annually; the
railways destroy upward of 80,000,000
fine young trees every year for ties; tho
frame houses, which form so characteris
tic a feature of an American landsca|ie,
nso up the lumber from millions of acres
annually. As yet no process of repara
tion has begun. We cut down, but we
do not replant. Tho consequence is
seen in the greater frequency of droughts
and floods along our large rivers, the
impaired fertility of the denuded sod
and the increased cost of fuel and build
ing material. The report shows that it
is quite time to turn over anew leaf.
We should husband carefully what for
est we have left. It is the part of wis
dom for every owner of a timber tract to
cut uuderstundinglv aud with reference
to the luture. A good twenty-acre tim
ber lot can be made to last for ceinu
Til's, all the time furnishing its anuiial
cutting of fuel for tho owner. Chicago
New*.
Not a Pleasant Story.
A Washington dispatch says the
United States Senate, in its last execu
tive session, consummated one of the
grossest outrages upon West Point and
the army which it has perpetrated at the
present session. A cadet who was about
to l>e found deticient a short time siuoe,
resigned to escape the disgrace. He at
once, through social influences exerted
there, secured a nomination from the
President as Second Lieutenant. The
Senate had full knowledge of the case,
ami still confirmed him. Asa result tho
young man, wbo could not maintain
himself as a cadet, takes rank in the
army two years ahead of those cadet*
whom he left in his own class to strug
gle through their course.
A iaiNST Grain CossrißACiits.—State
Senator I boron has introduced into the
Minnesota Leg s attire a hill under the
pmv.aions of which any person, persona
or corporation conspiring or in any way
cm Ur, mg to affect the price of wheat,
oat, corn, or other grain, shall be
liable to a fine of not less than SI,OOO
UT more than SIO,OOO.
DOCTORS FCRIOFS.
Shall a Physician Tell ihe 'JVnth or
Mufi A Nice Point in Ethics*
A flenelble Health Official.
Baltimore, Mil— A decided stir lias been
caused here over the question as to the right
of a physician to a rtiry to the merits of a
remedy not in the modern pharmacopoeia.
Dr. James A. Steuart, one of the most emi
nent physician* in the South, and Health
Commissioner of this city, had analyzed a
newly-discovered article, and c -rtifid offi
cially not only to its efficacy but to the fact
that'ii replaced old-time preparations of a
similar character which, analyses had proved,
wi re adulterated and poisonous. Ihe medi
cal and chirurgical faculty, of which he is a
member, held that he had violated the code
of medical ethics, and much public interest
was aroused becaua : of the confidence
felt lioth in his professional stand
ing and official integrity.
It was argued that to thus price n limita
tion on the arts of a physician and especially
of a h -altii officer, was opposed to the soil it
of the age; that such reasoning might have
been logical enough when it was to the inter
est of rulers or societies to invest themselves
with a supernatural halo, but now when
thought should be free and untrainmeled, su h
things savored of barbarism. It was the duty
of a physician, csjiecialJy of a health officer,
to condemn publicly any remedy which be
knew to 1 >fi injurious, but it was not right to
say that he should l*e debarred from testify
ing to the merits of anything which he knew
to lie good. If this were so. the world would
not receive the benefit of half the discoveries
made in art or science. Thus the people ar
gued, while the fu u ty threatened expulsion
and tulked of time-honored customs, ethics,
prob asioual courtesy and traditions.
Hut the matter soon assumed an w and
surprising phase. A few days afterward u
certificate appeared in the daily papers bear
ing the autograph signatmet of Governor
McLaii'*, Attorney-General Roberts, Mayor
I>atrobe, city postmaster Adicon, chiefs of
Mate and muni ipal and partments, judges and
clerks o courts. Federal offit ials and Con
gressmen, emphatically endorsing the action
of the health comm ssioner, and < on un ing
in his opinion ns to the efficacy of the remedy,
assorting that they did so from p< r*onal ex
js'idence wit hit an 1 practical tests and obscr
cation*.
There could l>e no gainsaying such evidence
as this, but, as if to can the climax, shortly after
word there appeared another < ertdk ate with
autograph signatures of leading practicing
1 hysicians from all parts of the Suite, includ
ing the physicians of all the leading hospitals,
the physician to the city lire department, the
j>ort physician,vaccine physician and resident
physicians of infirmaries aJI endorsing the
discovery and stating that it had been tested
by them in hospitals and private practice for
weeks with wonderful curative effect,
anl that analyses had shown no trace of
opiates or poisons, prevalent in other
cough mixtures. They further stated that
they bad been induced to take this step in
view of the many hurtful preparations which
contained narcotics and poisons uiul of tiio
dangers consequent on then* use. r i he reme
dy in question is Red Star Cough Cure. Such
a conclusive answer as this to too narrow ar
guments of the. few, arrayed public sentiment
on the side of the Health Commissioner, and
it is significant that Dr. Steuart has since
l*>en appointed to office by the Mayor lor a
third term, aud has had his appointment
unanimously confirmed by the City Council.
Owing to the high professional reputation
of the gentlemen who endorsed his action, as
well us to tlm enviable standing of the owners
of the remedy, The Charles A. Vogeler Com
pany, of this city, wide-spread interest has
already been created in the subject, not only
here, but in Philadelphia, Washington and
other neighboring cities. The feeling is
generally expressed by professional men that
Rod Star Cough Cure, on account of its free
dom from narcotics and poisons, inaugurates
h most desirable new departure in medicine.
This is the pronounced opinion of authorities
like Dr. Fawcett, who hns been for
thirty-throe years resident physician of the
Union Protestant Infirmary, in this city, and
Professor John J. Caldwell, M. D.. member
of iimv 1l al societies of B iltiuiore, New York
and Brooklyn, ami with a long experience in
ivil and military hospitals. Both of these
gentlemen, together with no less than fifty
oilier practicing physicians of Maryland,
have publicly put themselves on record n to
the evil of narcotic medicines, and the conse
quent value and inqwrtance or the new discov
ery referred to. It is conceded that public
opinion lias completely vindicated Dr. Steuart
in his action, and that in his whole course lie
was actuated simply by an earnest desire to
benefit the cowinulftty at large.
They Didn’t Shoot Him.
Years ago, when but a few white men
had seen the liocky Mountains, aud
only a very few of the Western savages
knew the use of fire-arm", a man named
Fitzpatrick was one day separated from
liis companions while pursuing game iu
the wilderness, aud was chaseij by a
war-party of Indians. There was not
the Rmallest chance of escape for him;
but the young hunter made a feint of
turning away, iu order, if possible, to
gam time. He happened to know that
the savages, who as yet were little ac
quainted with the use of fire-arms, had
several times, when they ha 1 taken white
prisoners, put the muzzles of their rifles
close to their breasts aud fired them, by
way of experiment, to see what would
come of it. He therefore thought it
prudent to extraot the bnllot from his,
and then continued his flight The In
dians followed, and very soon overtook
him. They disarmed him, and tied him
to a tree. One of the savages, who, it
appeared, understood how to pall a trig
ger, then seized the rifle, placed him
self a few paces in front of the owner
of it, took aim at his breast and fired;
but when the Indians looked eagerly
through the smoke toward where Fitz
patrick stood, they saw that lie was safe
aud sound in his place. Quietly tho
bu ter took out of his pocket tho bul
let, which he had previously placed
there, and tossed it to kis enemies, who
were all amazement. They declared
that ho hud arrested the hnllet iu its
flight, and was a wonder-working con
jurer; and, wliat was more, that a me
great misfortune would most likely be
fall (he tribe if they did not set him free.
They therefore cut his bonds and made
off as fast as possible, leaving Fitz
Patrick to go where he pleased.
What the Sexton Said.
Mr. Lewis Edwards, Sexton of Mt.
Vernon Place Church. Washington, D.
certifies that for several mouths past
he had been suffering with a severe cough
which distressed him day and night. He
was very much debilitated, with con
stant pains iu hjs chest. After trying
various remedies he u-ed the Red Star
Cough Cure, which gave him entire relief.
The Havoc In Spain.
The havoc wrought by the Malaga
aud Granada earthquakes must have
shaken the confidence of the inhabitants
of Madrid in their “throned city,”
which, planted on a rocky plateau 1,800
feet above the sea, might well appear
beyond the reach of any such calamity.
So firm were the men of Madrid in this
belief that when the rival capital, L : sben,
was laid iu ruins by the fearful earth
quake of Nov. 1, 1755, a famous Madrid
preacher took for his text, in allnsion
to the fancied security of the city: “It
fell not, for it was founded upon a rock.”
Indeed, the very circumstances of the
Lisbon catastrophe seemed to justify
this confidence, for, whereas the quarter
beside the Tagus was literally dashed
to pieces, and the great quay swallowed
np bodily with the 20,(KM fugitives who
had taken refuge upon it, the upper
town, standing upon a range of rockv
heights, escaped with comparativelv
slight injury. But when such firmfv
planted cities as Alhama and Granada
are shaken to their foundations the
citizens of the Spanish capital may well
call to mind the ancient prophecy that
"Madrid should stand till the" cArth
itself become her escaj,”
rails Dynamite Revelation*.
WHAT A NEWSPAPER HAB TO TELL ABOUT
THE LONDON EXPLOSIONS.
The Gil Bias, of Paris, makes some
sensational statements about the London
explosions. It dec'ares positively that
the authors of the explosions are the
same men who made the dynamite at
attack on London Bridge and at the
Gower Street Railway Station. The
chief organizers of both plots, the Gil
Bias asserts, have been for a long time
past and are now employed in an Eng
lish printing office in Paris, and, unril a
recent date, lodged in the St. Denis
quarter in Paris, where they manufac
tured the infernal machines used in their
diabolical work. When everything was
in readiness for the perpetration of the
contemplated atrocities, continues the
Oil Bias , the picked men who were to
lodge and set the machines departed
separately and by different routes for
London, each carrying with him one or
more of the machines. This was six
weeks ago. The Gil Bias says that no
one of these conspirators speaks French,
tad that no member of the entire band
v**r attended anarchist meetings in
Paris.
Moved Sixty Feet
The recent Spanish earthquakes have
not been without some of those accom
paniments which almost invariably at
tend earthquakes of any severity.
Serious landslips are often the sequel of
6uch shocks; streams disappear, springs
cease flowing, rivers are dried up,
and their course is so obstructed that
they form lakes. One village in Gran
ada has been moved bodily same sixty
feet in a northward direction, a deep
semi-circular crevasse, appearing on it*
former site. The course of the little
river near which the village stood has
been blocked up and a lake is being
formed. Many of the sulphur springs
with which the region abounds suddenly
ceased flowing, but reappeared a day ox
two after in a state of unusual heat, in
dicative, no doubt, of the character ol
the force at work below. At Periana, a
landslip on a mountain in the neighbor
hood destroyed a church and 750 houses,
—London Times. ,
“Throw Physic to the Docs”
when it is the old-fashioned blue mass, blue pill
soi t, and insist on using Dr. Bierce’s “Pleas
ant Purgative Pellets,” a modern medical
luxury, being small, sugar coated granules,
containing the active principles of certain
roots and herbs, and which will be found to
contain as much cathartic power as any of
the old-fashioned, larger pills, without the
latter’s violent, drastic effects. The pellets
operate thoroughly hut harmlessly, estab
lishing a permanently healthy action of the
stomach and bowels, and as an anti-bilious
remedy are unequaled. __
<4 orah sausages” which aro declared by
Ajaoius of old, to be “delicate and tempting,
arc revived.
"Rongh on Congh*.”
Afk for “Rough on Coughs, for Coughs,
Colds, Sore Throat, Hoarseness, Troche*, 15c.
Liquid 25c.
Over 20,000 person* in India died of snake
hi tea laet year.
I Was Troubled
with Chronic Catarrh and gathering in my
head, was very deaf at times, had discharges
from my ears, and was unable to breathe
through my nose. Before the second bottle of
Ely’s Cream Balm was exhausted 1 was cured,
and to-day enjoy sound health.—C. J. Corbin,
1123 Chestnut st., Field Manager Philadelphia
Pub. House, Pa. Bee advertiaemout.
A Dakota lake thirteen feet deep has frozen
solid clear to the bottom, and they aro cutting
the fish out with the ax.
* * * * Piles, fistulas and rupture rad
ically cured. Book of particulars two letter
stamps. World’s Dispensary Medical Asso
ciation, Buffalo.* £L_Y*. - - ~
Mexico hns decided to excel at the New Or
leans exposition. She has contributed $200,000
for the purpose.
"Itougli on Pnln” Planter;
Porous and strengthening, improved, the best
for backache, pains in chest or side, rhyuma
tiam, Neuralgia. 25c. Druggists or mail.
Small and steady gains give competency with
tranquility of mind.
"A little fire is quickly trodden out V _
Which,being suffered, rivers cannot quench.”
Procrastination may rob you of tima, but
hv increased diligence you can make up the
loss; but if it rob you of life the loss is irre
mediable. If your health is delicate, your
appetite O kie, your sleep broken, your mind
depressed, your whole being out of sorts, de
pend ou it you aro seriously diseased. In all
such cases Dr. Pierce’s "Golden Medical Dis
covery” will speedily effect a genuine, radi
cal cure—make anew man of you and
save you from the tortures of lingering dis
ease.
Nurture your mind with great thoughts. To
believe in the heroic makes heroes.
A Beautiful Ilend ofllnir*
long, silken in texture, rich chestnut brown,
reaching to the ground; such are the effects of
the justly celebrated and widely known Car
boline, the prince of all Hair Uestoren*
Out of a sehool population of 16,000.000 there
are not more than 10,000,000 who are now re
ceiving an education.
C'ntarrh of the Bladder.
Fringing, irritation, inflammation, all Kidney
and Urinary Complaints, cured by “Buchu-
Faiba.” $L
Always speak the truth. Make few promises
live up to your engagements.
No lady of refinement likes to resort to super
ficial devices to supply a becoming semblance
of her former beauty. It is health alone that
lights the countenance and brings hack fresh
tints to the failed cheek. If anything on earth
will do this, it is Mrs. Lydia E. Pinkham's Veg
etable Compound, which has already brought
health to multitudes with whom all other means
had failed.
When you retire to bed, think over what you
have been doing through the day.
Mensman’s Pyttontzed b tw.t toxtc, the only
preparation ofbeef containingits entire yiutri
tu>us properties. It contains blood-making
force generating and life-sustaining properties;
invaluable for indigestion, dyspepsia, nervous
prostration, and all forms of geueral debility;
also, in all enfeebled conditions, whether the
result of exhaustion, nervous prostration, over
work or acute disease, particularly if resulting
from pulmonary complaints. Caswell, Hazard *
Cos., Proprietors, New York. Sold by druggist*
If any one speaks evil of you, let your life be
so that no one will believe him.
The Hope of the Nation.
Children, slow in development, puny, scrawny
and delicate, use ‘’Well's Health He newer.”
When you speak to a person, look him in the
face.
Important.
Wh*n yon visit or le*ve New York city. mw hajrrvr*.
xprmsae *nd camasto hire, ad stop st tho Grs ni
Union Hotel, opp- Grsud Central dep'X.
til e eracr rooms, fitted up at a coat of one million
dollars* iland upward p r day. European plan. Ele
vator. Restaurant supplied with the best. Horse cars,
irapee and e>vtea railroads to all depots. Famines
aa live better foe lees money at the Grand Union i
Hot*, than at any other tirst-class hotei in tbe city. !
THURSTON’S STOOTH POWDER
Keeping Teeth Perfect and Gnma Healthy.
1 foyiEHE O' ILFt/l. Mr- T q, EARNO.XM.
■1 10 West juh Subset. New rk. Cheapest place in ,
New York for DoconKwe Art Wh, -it-sale and
retaJ. Seed Sa\ for catalogue. Pease jauntier- paper.
BIG HE A s s5S Si it
A4ir.ie, J. V. Tr.mMelL Aabaa. Aji.
Red Star
17 TRADE MARK:
SOUGH SURE
Free from Opiates, Emetics and Poisons.
A PROMPT, SAFE, SURE CURE
For Couchs korr Throat. Homaes Infloen***
Cold*. Bronchitis, Croup. Wheoplng Cough,
Asthma. Quinsy, Pain* In Chest, and other
affection* of u* Throat and Lung*.
Price 50 Okhts a Bottl*. At Dbcgoiktb and Dealkß*,
THE CHARLES A. TOGELEU COMPANY,
Baltimor*, Marx land, U. S. A*
BEST TRUSS EVER USED.
Improved Elastic Truss.
" " ra night and day. Pos*
Sent bv mail every w h*re.
bg ii- D „Vr. H Write for full descriptive
Iv U S S circulars to the
New York Elastic
744 B dway, New York
cre>m Y bhmG&IAMH
Cleanses tlio Head.
Allays I rill animat i o n .
r=~.
stores tlie Senses of J
Taste, Smell, Hearing,
A POSITIVE CLUE. Wf /
Cream
hiu< gained an enviable rer*n-
tation wh*-r*vr known, <jim- V/ <3° USA-I
I lacing all other prepara- — : *
toons. A particle is applied II llf
ssa&ys?' i “ HAY-FEYER
Price 60c. by mail or at druggist. Bend for oironlar.
ELY BROTHERS, Druggist?, Owego, N. Y.
A WONDERFUL DISCOVERY
•MIAU STONES,”
The most only certain and sure care for all Poison
ous Bites, as Knakes, Sniders, Mad Dogs, all Stints,
etc. Prices from SSO to SSOO, but to quickly introduce
to Agents we will sen! sample “Stone,” No. 5 size.
Directions, Hand Book of Cures Made, etc., for a 81
bill, or in stamps by registered mail ;only one to a iamily.
For sale now only by me, “the discoverer.” This will
not appear again, so send now and get terms to sell to
your friends. Address, It, T. JAIUES, Veruon
Hill P. 0., Halifax County. Va.
THEjfHIFAT^HKIN
prepared from the pre
scription of a celebrated physician, and is warranted to
contain no lead.
SMITH, DOOLITTLE A SMITH.
Gen. Agents, Boston, Miss.
LAMAR, RANKIN A LAMAR.
Southern Agents, Atlanta, Ga.
/qgh, R.U.AWARE
Licrillard’s Climax Plug
xfl-Ujy bearing a red tin tan; that Lortllard’s
Rose Lenf fine cut; that Lorillard’s
Navy Clippings, and that LorilLard’s Snuffs, arc
tlie best ana cheapest, quality considered ?
CONSUMPTION.
I have a positive remedy for the above disease; by Its
aso thoussn sof cases ol the worst kind and of long
■ tanding have been cured. 1 ndecd, t-ostrongls niy faith
In its efficacy,that I will send TWO BOTTLES FREE,
together with a VALUABLE TREATISE on this disease
to any sufTorer. Givo express and P O. add res.
DR. T. A. SLOCUM, lsi IVarlSt., New York.
Made only by the N. Y. A
VCi 11 I Oa Havana Cigar Oil. 67 Broad-
Potitively the Beet. way. N. Y. ASK FOR IT.
IHtUM-HABIT
EAHII.Y CURED. ADVICE FREE.
Dr. J.C. HOFFMAN, Jefferson, Wls.
Ql-' r:il_ Great English Gout and
DICKI Sril'Si Rheumatic Remedy.
Oval llox,&l.l>0; round, 50 cite.
TKLIX.KAFHY
Railroad Agents’ Businee*
tanght at MOORE’S BUSINESS UNIVER
HITY. Atlanta. Ha. Send for Circulars.
SENSATIONAL BOOKS •ea talogne. Address,
(•KEEN A CO., Drawer 732, New Orleans. Ca.
HH||IBH9 Morphine Habit Cared ItTlO
IlPleijlra to JrtilavM. No pay till cured.
Ul BUIWI Dp \ Stephens. Lebanon. Ohie.
]| OW to l>e Beautiful.—Remove freckles, pimples,
1 blemishes. Instructions, toilet recipes free Sena
stamp tor pamphlet. I>r Fleming, 280 W. 86th st.,N.Y.
(t) a f’XfX Gold mounted Engraved K*volver.
<!)N*svU Union Arms t 0., Norwich, Conn.
Pr i \ GHROMO CARDS. Yonr name for lO Cents.
QUAddress, 11. IUCIITEK, Cullman, Ala.
Nervous Debility S£s.i c JSw. B
si IS /or injure the teeth. \>y the best. Try It. |§g
B/ A SURE APPETIZER. BEST TONIC KNoWn\l|
H A W Will cure quickly and completely Dyspepsia, Weakness,
M-I.ri., Impur, Blood, Chill, and to ”, —I
6 FOR LADIES AND FOR ALL Iff I
PERBONS WHO LEAD A SEDENTARY LIFE. ItB
VRELIEY^^6ESTION /^fX7>^ : OURES DYSPEPSIA* *
I It Is a sure remedy fo/ 1 It strengthens the f
I Ikl lor diseases of [ 2 ( Jt lj muscles.tones wsaSh
BiN the Liver and Vo\PURITv/^/ Invigorates the/'
H Kidneys. \>V system. K|
Brown’s Iron Bitters com- T Brown’s Iron Bitters is the
bines Iron with pure vegetable tonics. H Best Liver Regulator — ro
ll is compounded on thoroughly sci- ££ moves bile, clears the skin,
entific and medicinal principles, and _ digests tho food, CURES
cannot intoxicate. " Belching-, Heartburn, Heat
All other preparations of Iron cause t in the Stomaeb, etc.
headache, and produce constipation. S j, ; s best-known remedy for
Brown's Iron Bitters is the T female infirmities.
OXLV Iron medicine that y Thegenuine has above trade mark
is not injurious— -its use does not • crossed red lines on
even olackcn the teeth. w . , ■*■ , * *
, . , , m Take no other. Made only by
It not only cures the worst cases of■
Dyspepsia, but insures a hearty ap- I Brown Chemical Cos.,
*>etite and rood dizestim. Q Baltimore, Md.
Men Think
they know all about Mustang Lin
iment. Few do. Not to know is
not to have.
YTDIA E. PlSßnii’S
Teietalle Coqomi
** 13 A PCSITIT2 Crߣ
For Female Complaints and
■Weaknesses so common to
our best female population.
It will cure entirely the worst form of Female Com
plaints, all Ovarian troubles, Inflammation and Ulcera
tion, Falling and Displacements, and the consequent
Spinal Weakness, ana is particularly adapted to the
Change of Life.
It will dissolve and expel ftimors from the uterus ia an
early stage of development. The tendency to cancerous
humors there is checked very speedily by ita use.
It removes faintness, flatulency, destroys all craving
or stimulants, and relieves weakness or the stomach,
-t cures Bloating, Headaches, Nervous Prostration.
General Debility, Sleeplessness, Depression and Indiges
tion. That feeling of bearing down, causingpain, weight
and backache, is always permanently cured by its use.
It will at all times arid under all circumstances act ia
harmony with the laws that govern the Female system.
For the cure of Kidney Complaints of either sex, this
Compound is unsurpassed. Price 51.00. Six bottles f .r $5.00.
Kr family should be without LYDIA E. PINKUA3PB
LTV EH FILLS. They cure constipation, biliousness and
torpidity of the liver. 25 cents a box at all druggists.
' PLOWS. ,
Bnd for lllntratFl Flow Catalogue, ahowtrg our fall !!n
of “Steel,” L.,n”n<l “Cut Lou” 1 ui, made ta
ault all aolla, a<U) ted for ail k!u.ia
Ti'xaa orders front our Dai la* h uze. J&Fl lw
ADDRESS, have no Agents. }
The Edmiston & Waddell Cos., 351 & 353 First Streep
BROOKLYN, E. D., N. Y.
IMMEDIATE RELIEF.
fTTHJRNISH your own bottles and
A stve thi-fourths the cost.
jUordon’H King of Pain it
furnished in powder and sent by
mad, witti full diiactions for mix
ing and usmg, also labels for bot
ties, circulars, etc. It relieve*
pain as if bv magic and is a bouso
bold remedy wherever known for
Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Head
ache.Toothache.Burns and Scalds
Sprains and Bruises. Sore Throat
Ulcers, Flesh Wounds, etc. The
remedy is put up in 50c., $1 and
$5 packages. The 50c. package,
when reduced to liiiu and form, will
fill 24 two-oz. bottles- You can
easily figure the saving. Agents
can coin money in selling it. Or
dern package and you will be *
regular customer hereafter.
CATARRH.—Gordon’s O*.
tarrh Remedy positively cures. Fifty cents by mail.
Satisfaction guaranteed. Stamps taken.
E. G. RICHARDS, Sole Proprietor, Toledo, Ohio,
Paynes’ Automatic Engines and Saw-Hill
MtADEH,
We offer an B*o 10 H. P. mounted Engine with Mill,
60-in aolid Saw, 60 ft. belting, cant-hooks, rig complete
for operation, on cars, $l,lOO. Engine on skids slo*
less. Send for circular (B). B. W. PAYNE dc
SONS, Manufacturers of all styles Aiitomntlc En-
Sinee, from 2 toH. P. • also Pulleys, Hangers and
haftng, Elmira. N, Y. feox 1850.
TO introduce and sell the trade tho well-klK'Wn and
celebrated Cigar*of the NEW YORK A HAVANA
CIGAR COMPANY. Liberal arrangements. Salary
or Commission paid to the right man. For further
particulars and terms address, at once,
The New York A Havana Cigar Ce.*
37 Broadway, New York.
f -i |W. L. DOUGLAS
I / SHOES,
iT. va lANIi/r/ for gentlemen,are the best fino
■0 Vy T[ < a t Glove, Calf Top Sewed
v X I I Slices InAmer.ca for the price:
f Zf x B I BMFleln Buttop, Congress and
I Lace, Medium London Toe,
\ 1 very stylish and durable. Pay
y \ \ X l yotr can get ns
1 V good a shoe for $3. Sent by,
mail, lOiUge free. Measure foot as directed- Statdi
size you usually wear, and wauted. I gnarantee'
a fit and perfect satisfaction. W\ Jj. Douglas,
Brockton, lHaaa. Betall dealers wanted.
■ Lying Agents cant SELL and ted
the truth about Jottes. Put roar
$60.5 TON
WAGON SCALES.
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Paid. Frcr Price List Every Size,
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tty Send for Circulars, Specimen Plate. Extra Terms, ete., k
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A HANDSOME LADY
or h mely lady can make m uny soiling ‘.‘Treasury of
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Many a Lady
is beautiful, all but her skin;
and nobody has ever told
her how easy it is to put
beauty on the skin. Beauty
on the skin is Magnolia
Balm.