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Apple fritters.—Peel some apples and ent
them in slioes; pat a little sugar over them and
some lemon jnioe. Let the pieces soak a couple
of hoars; then dip each piece in pancake batter,
and have ready a frying pan, with two inches
• deep of lat. When hot, put the slioes of apple
in one at a time, tarn over with a slice as they
are doing, and serve with powdered loaf su
gar.
Pancakes. —Take three eggs, and stir them in
to a pint of milk; add a good pinch of salt and
enough prepared flour to make it into a thick,
smooth batter. Fry in boiling fat till nearly
done; roll over on the other side; drain, and
serve very hot with lemon and powdered loaf
sugar. The feat of tossing the pancake in the
pan requires dexterity, but is not difficult if the
batter is very light.
Faked tomatoes.—Take a deep pudding-dish
and batter the inside of it well; first put in
layer of breadcrumbs, then a layer of peeled
sliced tomatoes, then a small onion cut very
thin; dredge on a little flour, pepper, and salt
now begin with breadcrum bs again, tomatoes,
onion, and seasoning, till the dish is full; the
top layer must be breadcrumbs, with salt and
pepper, and a few small bits of butter over it;
put this in the oven; keep it covered with a tin
plate for an hour, then remove the plate and let
it brown. It does not require too hot an oven.
It will take at least two hours to bake. Those
who wish can add sugar to suit the taste. It is
better to send to table in the dish used for
baking.
Mince pies without meat.—One dozen fine
apples, peeled, cored, and chopped fine, with
one-lourth pound of batter, two cups of stoned
raisins, half cup French currants, half ounce of
citron shavings, one dozen crackers rolled fine,
hall cup of boiled cider, hall cup of Orleans
molasses, cup and half of sngar, cinnamon
eioves, and other spice to taste. Fake in shal
low nie-platts lined with rich pastry crust.
Stains from dresses—Stains from fabrics may
be removed by moistening the spot witn a solu
tion of Epsom salts in a few drops of hot water.
Hub it in well the first time, and then moisten
again. Next fill a tin vessel with boiling water,
and set it on the stained place for a lew minutes,
and afterwards wash out in soft water. It is ad
visable to have articles thus treated washed im
mediately.
Fruit stains will sometimes yield to cold
water; cherry stains for example. Others re
quire boiling water, end still others some bleach
ing agent. The most convenient material is
Javelle water, generally kept by druggists. To
make it, dissolve one pound of saWatns in a
pint of water; mix four ounces of fresh chlo
ride of lime with one pint cf water, stirring to
remove the lumps—it will not all dissolve. Pour
the two liquids together, stir or shake thorough
ly. set aside, and when the deposit has settled,
pcur off the perfectly clear liquid and bottle for
use. Glass or earthen vessels should be used
in preparing it. Wet the stains with this aud
rinse well, just before washing the articles, as
it would bleach colored ones.
There is a gieenness in onions and potatoes
that renders them hard to digest For health’s
sake put them in warm water for an hour be
fore cooking.
DRESSING TO SUIT HIGH ART.
An Interesting Hew Departure.
To bent ihe whites of eggs quickly, put in a
pinch of salt. The cooler the eggs the quicker
they will froth. Sait cools and also freshens
them.
over wash raisins that are to be { sed in sweet
disees. It will make the pudding '■reavy. To
Sitm i — „ A.v towel
To brown sugar for sauce or l'cr puddings, put
the sugar in a perfectly dry saucepan. If the
pan is the least bit wet, th9 sugar will burn ai d
you will spoil your saucepan.
Buttermilk rudding.—Two eggs, two cups of
sUi/ar, half a cup of butter, one teaspoonful of
soda, throe cups of buttermilk; stir the flour
in lightly and pour into a greased tin. Fake
one hour. It can be tamed out.
A decided novelty in crosses, frames lor small
Dictures and similar ornaments, and one that
strongly resembles carved jet, can be made by
pounding thick black glass into fragments, heat
ing tbem very hot in the fire to soften the sharp
edges, and then attaching them to the surface of
the article you wish to decorate, by means of
strong glue.
Blue, green, crimson, or other colored glasses
may be substituted for black in making orna
mental work, if the surface of the article first be
colored the same shade as the glass. A very
transparent glue must be used to fasten the par
ticles.
Exceedingly unique and rustic looking mot
toes and other ornaments by fastening on to a
cat .Hoard foundation the dry greenish-gray moss
found on wood s bark as a background, and mak
ing the lettering, designs, ect., of light green
mess, that has been pressed for the purpose,and
tiny autumn leaves, and such pressed flowers
as retain their colors. Frame with cedar spray
or the slender branches of the pine-tree from
which the needles have been removed.
Moss frames.—Very pretty frames for small
photographs or engravings may be made of the
wood’s moss that is found on the bark of most
forest trees, and in profusion on that of apple-
trees.
To make these frames, make stiff cardboard
foundation, attach the moss with glne, com
mencing with the lightest shades of moss for the
icside edges of frames and the darkest for the
outer edges. Now go over the surface of the
moss with a brush that has been dipped in very
thin mucilage, and whilst yet damp sift over it
diamond dust or the fine glass that may be had
at any glass factory.
At The New York Police Court.
[From the New York Herald, July 4.]
‘•Your husband was arrested by an officer,
Mis. Powers,” said the justice in Essex Market
Court yesterday to a sad-faccd little woman, “on
a charge of cruelly beating you. I have sent for
you to make a complsint against him. ’
“Against my husband, sir?" she atieqd in a
low voice.
••Why, oi course. Your face is cut and swot
len. your arms black and blno and yonr lips
quivering now from the pain his brutality has
caused you. Your cries were pitiful to h«ar,
your neighbors say, and they add that your Hus
band is a drunkard and that you have to sup
port him.
•Oh! let him go,” said the little woman, cry
ing. “He didn't mean to do it. We’ve been
married just & year and a half. Our little boy is
home asleep. I would not have it said his fath
er .-ver had been arrested for beating his mother.
You'll let him go ; please do,” and the woman
wept afresh. ,
•‘And what do you say, Powers?” answered
the Court
■ Sav ! ’ answered the drunken brute. “Way
I say damn her! I’ll give it to her when I get
her again. I’ll stop her blubbering and her ba-
bv stories.”
‘ ••You will not if I have the power to prevent
y 0n . You are committed for six months in de
fault of $600 to keep the peace.”
The needle, that dainty little tool, is a wonder
ful brightener and consoler, our weapon of de
fease against slothfulness, sad though!*.
I had been away for some years on the contin
ent, and was only just home in London when
my consin invited me to go with him to the
house ot some friends to hear a young poet de
liver a lecture on a great French poet who lived,
wrote and died three hundred years ago. I was
feeling somewhat lonely, and gladly accepted
the invitation.
“Be sure to dress picturesquely,” said my
consin in departing ; “weare going to an mathetio
household.”
"An wsthetio household," I repeated, bewild
ered, Then, remembering that I had been away
fonr years, and that I was no longer au courant
of the interests and expressions of sooiety, I
added, humbly, "What does the word ’{esthetic’
mean ? ’
••.Esthetic !” replied my cousin ; and he paus
ed. “.Esthetic,” he resumed, with that shadow
of assertive pugnacity, in his tone whioh denotes
a vagueness of apprehension in the mind oi the
speaker; “resthetio means {esthetic, I suopcse.
It is to love and cultivate the beautiful. Every
body who is at all nice is {esthetic now-a-days ;
everything is reitheiic about them—furniture,’
dressing, relations between men aud women
(flirtations, I mean.) Even children ought to
be apathetically brought up.’’
“Dear me !' quoth I, feeling somewhat over
whelmed, and more than ever at sea as to the
meaning of the term. 1 then said, more cheeri
ly > feeling that I should be enlightened that even
ing as to the significance of tae big word, ‘I
shall be ready at eight.”
I confess I am fond ot dress. I have a femi
nine weakness for liking to look as pretty and
pleasant as I can, and the ambition to make the
best of my modest charms. I humbly admit
that, whatever small powers of conversation I
may possets, I never trot them out to better ad
vantage than when I know that my dress is be
coming, fitting perfectly, and of harmonious
coloring. I have, moreover, decided notions on
dress. I am not my dressmakers submissive
doll. I think a woman s dress, without any ec
centric divergence from the prevailing fashion,
ought yet to give a certain clew to her individu
al taste and character. Frivolous as it, may seem,
confess that I have lain awake at night dream
ing of the make and cut of a gown.
When my cousin left 1 bethought niy3ell with
some pride that I had a picturesque dress—it
might, alter ali, turn out to be an {esthetic dress.
A clever little French drecs-maker had made it
under my direction ; in truth, I had copied the
design from a picture by Titian, and my deft
workwoman had subdued it sufficiently to make
it appear of the fashion cf the present day. Jn
Paris picturesque dressing is not sc much in
vogue as it is here ; but this dress of mine had
won the approbation oi a yrande dame, who had
pronounced it picturesque without being outre.
This ie the one absolute necessity for good dress
ing in their notion of taste, that there should ha
nothing outre in costume. I unpacked it glee
fully. There it was, a rich black silk, long and I
ample, of prinoesse make, with a dead-gold satin }
front let in, sleeves slashed with head-gold, a |
full high ruche around throat and wrists of,
somewhat yellow Mechlin lace. I put on mv
necklace of amber beads and an old-fashioned
chatelaine I had picked up in one of the dear
bric-a-brac shops on the qnais ; it has quaint and
artistic odds and ends dangling to it. 1 also
added a small bag of stamped buff-colored Ifalt
er for my handkerchief. My hair is fair ; I u ear
it low over my forehead. That evening I wannk!
a black and gpld eorjC .hrough it. I
* lift'd vX ruftiys_in_ atferiyetL-. ap d. get ....
pavement of Piccadilly I endeavored to es-on,
from him a clearer definition of the word {es
thetic, but in vain. We soon came to the house,
and were shown up into a large room, already
crowded. We were late, aud the lecture about
to begin. There was, necessarily, a little form
ality of greeting, but we were at once led to seats
by a youth who carried himself with a grao&ful
stoop.
The room was a medley of blue china, of Ja
panese fans and screens, scattered about in f;,is-
ceaux. I saw afterward that there were some
charming and artistic objects m it. Against
this background detached itself the strangest,
most melancholy, most original group cf man
and women it had ever beeu my luck to gaze on.
All the women looked wan, untidy, picturesque
—ali very like figures cf queer pre-Kaphaellte
pictures stepped out cf their frames. My first
confused notion was that they were all going to
a fancy ball after the lecture, where the mot
dordre waa to appear with unkempt hair and
puffed sleeves, and that'the news of some iearinl
disaster bad met them and turned away their
thoughts from this world’s frivolities. The at
titudes were also listless and limp, with a cer
tain grace of melanoholic intensity. Comiiig
straight from Paris, where there is, perhaps, too
little individuality in the style cf dress adopted
bv the women, and where the tone of society is
gay and brisk, the contrast here presented was
almost too forcible for my risible muscles. Af
ter a while I begin to perceive that there was a
distinct intention in the colors and arrangement
of some of these costumes. They struck me as
striving after emotional expre c sions. One lady
was in red ; red gloves covered her hands and
arms ; I could see that her stockings were red.
A serpent coiled round her neck ; red tulips
were in her h&ir. Her hair ! What a fuzz it was
—what a passionate tangle! It must have taken
paokets of hairpins and au agony of plats to
have produced this untidiness.
She wss the fateful, the terrible! Near her
were two sad-eyed maidens, whose golden locks
were also frizzed aud fuzzed till their pretty
heads looked as that ot sweet, mad Ophelia.
They wore lank garments of white muslin,
crumpled into a million creases—eminently sug
gestive of the clothes basket. Lilies were fasten
ed in their fair locks, ana each carried a long
stalk of the Annunciation lily in her hand,
adorned with leaves, bnds and blossoms. A
damsel in a clinging flesh-colored dress sat iu a
crouching posture. The line of the hips and
knees, every curve of her figure, coaid be dis
tinctly trreed. On her head was a wreath of
long pointed leaves. She looked like a broken
hearted Dryad parted trom her forest tree. My
eyts rested with amused curiosity on a plump,
rosy, small damsel, attired in what I have since
learned to call a symphony in green. Her shoes
and stockings were pale green, a gsriandof brib
liant green wreathed her yellow trts.ses; sage
green was her dress, with various shades of tne
color cunningly wrought through iu It was a
pretty costume and a becoming one. The little
maid might Lave been painted by Greuze, or sat
for the dearest of love-lorn shepherdesses. It
would have been delightful to have come across
the dainty figure singing blithely under a gieen-
wood tree, health on her cheeks and laughter on
her lips. Here she twisted her chubby face in
to a woebegone expression, and did everything
in her power to cultivate the intense melancho
ly that must properly belong to the handful of
lovei s of the beautiful in a Philistine world.
Near her was the handsomest, saddest and un-
tidiest of all the wan, despondent wemen in the
room. Hollow oheeks, deepest, gay eyes a mass
of red-gold hair, a fine chin aud jaw (BUaped
somewhat like the keel of a boat) give her a sin
gular and impressive type of beauty. Sho was
dressed in a raiment of gold tissue ; in good
sooth, I know not how it was made or held. I
saw no vestige of a waist or of a band. The on
ly distinct form I could trace were the twa puffs
on the shoulders ; these puffs somehow gave the
impression of being dilated by an immense sigh.
The garment hung very loosely about her long
neok, and revealed traces of the petticoat bodice
beneath. Tiger lilies were in her hair, and
crimson gloves reaohed midway ap her arms.
Her attitude was one of ntter exhau stion. I have
seen since this poBe of languid grace, and this
pale and striking face, reproduced in pictures of
a master who has his ardent admirers.
Jnst behind her, in refreshing contrast to the
surrounding l^lessaess, was a wide-awake, di
minutive figr® arrayed in a quaintly cut blue
drees ; the ij'wbrushed tight to the head, end
firmly gatheahig^L a bundle the size of a potato.
The bright, ^juj[d, piquant faoe strnok mo as
out of plf ca bjM|, as might have done a pungent
bit of wild sv^Biriar that has gone astray in a
noRsgay of d| wping hothouse plants. A few
other womenSSRere were whose garments were
simply picturesque, and who would not have
attracted attention by the intense expression
and color of their get-up. A slim girl in white
dross and fichu, embroidered with flowers in
their natural hues, struck me as a charming il
lustration of a tasteful and sufficiently charact
erized style oftlressing. Another was in blue,
draped with ajbrrecian tunic of paler blue, edg
ed with a band of arabesque design ; the hair
very simple and quiet,
I had been 30 engaged watching the men and
women around me, that I had scarcely listened
to the leeture. I heard enough to understand
that it was a passionate vindication of the doc
trine, “Art for art's sake, ” ignoring its tenden
cies, its influences, advocating merely perfection
inform. This anu.ier.CJ was evidently fond of
the horrible in idea, it it was partial to the love
ly in expression. After the discourse followed
a discussion. Three or four cf the youDg men
who spoke were pools ; each had gone through a
life tragealy, which he had embalmed in a vol
ume, where he told that the women he had lov
ed were a:i fink and baleful. Each heart had
cherished a a in the bnd, and ha a its own
peculiar light. One had adored a vam
pire who iUufished in the blood she nightly
sacked frop»f>his veiur. He was immensely
thought o.' .the present gathering; but the
lecturer o.'bby, evening excelled all others in
the place l?‘re id in its estimation. He had sur
passed ail el “ bjrivais, for he had published an
ode to a c ^ ,s *“ ? nd indited a sonnet to a dead
body. I hWcjfinee knov/u some ot these young
poets, and n d*cd them quiet and praiseworthy
members o^Aiiety.
I confess^#that evening, surrounded by this
limp orowtWh almost hated my picturesque
gown, and '«shed I had appeared there in an
uncompromising work-a-day costume, without
train or slashing, or in an inane attire, the result
oia fashionable dressmakers cogitations.
In the privacy of my chamber, however, I re
turned to batter thoughts, and iangued till ihe
teais ran down my cheeks as I calltd up again
those sad women in their deliberately-crumpled
garments and wild hair. No, said i, let’ my
dress be tidy and charming, made of good ma
terial, s.nd with a beautifal piotaresqueness, clis-
cret in its deviations trom the fashion ol’ the
day. By all means lot it carry traces of my own
individuality and taste, hut let me always re
member the good French maxim, that nothing
is acceptable that is outre, in a woman’s rlrAKK
front door. This was Mrs. Sarah E. Dorsey,
one of the most noted women of Louisiana, and
the benefactress of Mr. Davis. She is an antL-
oress of some note, having written Panola, a
novel, and I think a biography of one of Louis-
iana’s governors. She owned valuable river
plantations, and was at the time of my visit
deeply interested in the project of national
levees for the Mississippi. She waa a thorough
student—companionable with and devoted to
Mr. Davis. I remember that with an assured
air of protectorship she superintended any al
lusion that the ex-president made to public af
fairs—a kind censorship that he humored, if he
did not regard it
At her request, Mr. Davis bad made Beanvoir
his home during the time he was engaged on
his book. Accepting this invitation, he had
quietly dropped out of the world. I have never
seen a more delightful household than that
gathered at Beanvoir at this time. Besides Mr.
Davis and Mrs. Dorsey, there was young Jeff, a
most agreeable and earnest young fellow ; a boy
relative of Mrs. Davis from the North, who, with
Jeff, Jr., was reading law under the ex-preaident,
a smart and courteous youngster, and Mr. Davis’
old colored body-servant, who is passionately
attached to him. This mads np the family, and j
there was a friendly interest and easy eloquence I
in ali the intercourse, whether it ascended to the
tremendous affairs in which the leader had been
involved or dropped to the affairs about the
farm
ALTANTA FEMALE IN
Session ot INTO and
T HE FALL TEAIS Of this School will i
Monday, September l»t. with a fail co
tent teachers. Music and French receive <
tion. Tile Music Department is under th
Prof. John ICoerber, graduate of the Koval C
of Music, Munich, Bavaria, and formerly of
Female Institute, Staunton, Va.
Fi r oirculars, apply u> the Principal.
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the conversation, but at onco a charming abau-• an-iffi-M
don and decorum, whether it was sitting in a i £.
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There was no stiffness or artificiality in ! .^sjy tin 1
group on the piazza watching the gulf, while t_
strong salt breezes blowing from spice-land fan
ned our faces—or walking through the orange
grove with Mr. Davis and the boys—or singly
ensconced with Mr. Davis in his study. I re
member how devotedly Mr. Davis was attached
to his son, and how, fondly he became interest
ed in all that the bright, frank young fellow
turned his baud to. He was engaged with the
help of the body-servant, m building a boar,
and the president halted us for & half-hour in
discussing with his son the prospects of the ven
ture. The boy was studious, well-strung, robust
having the features of his mother, but many
of his father's characteristics—altogether an ad
mirable boy. He died of yellow fever last year
and with aim died the last of his kingly ii a =. ’
Mr. Davis could not have selected"* better
place in which to perform the great work upon
which he is engaged. The house at Beauvoir is
an immense roomy mansion, built in the ch’-
fashioned Southern style. The hall is wide-
than an ordinary room, and covers more space
than the whole floor of a tenement house. " r t
was laid with light matting, and in the
was a large circular damask sofa, the e
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MRS. DORSEYS BEQUEST.
The House uf Beauvior, and How Jefferson Davis
/ Passed his Time There.
[We take Ihe following from the Atlanta Con-
Rtunticn. mas from the facile a,nd ever graoe-
gulf-side hlme of the lady wao has since be
queathed hi* her valuable estate.]
Making mt way unguardedly into a pair of
railings thetlopened like a funnel at tno depot,
and then narrowed into a plank ;ane tn&t led
inevitably ;b an oid-tashioned, cool-looking
hotel, I stepped up to the register aaa asKed it
Mr. Davis jwas in Mississippi Oily or its neigh
borhood. Mina host replied that he had not
seen Mr. Davis, bat ha had heard that ne was
“slopping at Mrs. Dorsey’s." Ha further in-
ooiitre
. . • tre-piece
rising above tne seats and holding <. iarue trav
of flowers. The rooms aro very large, and the
piazza probably thirty feet wide, and runs all
around the house. The parlors, dinintf-rooms j
etc., are furnished as they are usuaiiy furnished |
by persons of culture and wealth ; 'oat there was !
a better assortment of large chairs than J ever
saw before.
On the right hand of the house is a small two-
room house, built for Mr. Davis’ especial us;.
This in his workshop. Ons room is his library!
This is filled to the ceiiing with books, a ste-jl
ladder being necessary to reach the’ higher
shelves. The books are histories, records e'e ■
mostly bearing on the late war. In the middle j
ot the room is a large table on which are various I
books and sheets of paper. A large engravino i
of a sacred character surmounts the mantel I
The next room is intended for resting in case j
-dr. Davis should desire to lie down. itr. D»vis
says that probably he has aa nnequallad Horary !
of reference for the great subject in which he is |
intprestfed. Ficvsavs that he has nefft er» ,j a -;-d '
work?" -■vi'At.her ail the si>h ritti he j
On the left-hand side of the house is d similar j
building which was Mrs. Dorsey’s study. This i
was most tastefully furnished, and contained a j
iiiij miscellaneous library, with an immensely !
full collection of works of {Southern autnore. j
Mrs. Dorsey spent the most oi her time in this j
cozy little retreat.
The grounds about the place are very hand- j
some. There are an orange grove, a flue vine- i
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yard, crcaards, in was, and some superb groves,
formed ms thafcjMts. Dorsey was a sort of liter-1 -be climate is almost tropical and mere is a
ary woman-thatshe was rich, .nd that her re- ; profusion of bright and fragrant flowers. I was
sidenee was known »s “Beanvoir,” and spelled i *»trsc*. wlth a'drove oi peacucko, that maue las
as “Bcevwab,” and that for a consideration ! woods gay witn their fme ieatn-rs. These wore
could secure transportation to the same. In a ‘dr. Davis special pets, and it was a pretty sight
to see him feed
twice a day.
:hem, which he did regularly
half hour I was on the way.
I never had a more melancholy ride than that
which followed. The road led. through heavy . Those Useful Conduits,
pil’.c forests. The tall, brown trees rose S-^aight j £-i(j u ay S ami bladder, sometimes become torpid aad
and monotonous from drifts of wnite-powderea weak from unascertainable causes. When this occurs,
sand—the moan of the wind through th6ir tuft- | their discharging lunctiou ia of necessity very imper
ed heads mingling strangely with tne swishing
sound of the waves of the yellow gulf as they
rolled ceaselessly on the beach. At almost ev
ery turn of toe road we came upon old houses
of imposing ^izo, character, and surroundings,
but thoroughly dismantled and desolate. Worm
eaten and decayed piers ran out into tbe water
—roofless boat and bathing-houses were scatter
ed along the shore ; broken-down fences of fine
pattern bare'y hinted the snape of former in-
closures. There were mansions, dead-looking,
deserted, with grass growing on their roofs ;
there were stables and carriage-houses, and . B
Dieeon-cotf’8 all disnsbd and teaantless ; hand- I many people have erroneously considered it as au evi-
, ,i„ nr, with wo.da and cand l deuce of health, and any agent that reduces fat is there-
sorne grounds choked up with weeds ana sa^a foreutonce BUi(je cted of being injurious. Starting to
drifts. Occasionally tnere was sure to be seen | reaBon f r0 m the falBe position that fat is an evidence of
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fectly performed, aud certain debris, which is the result
of natural bodily waste aud decay, does not escape as it
should, bat remains to corrupt the b ood aud develop
poisonous humors and dangerous as well as painful dis
ease*. it is one of the beneficent effects ot Hostetter’s
Stomach hitters to gently stimulate the urinary organs,
and prevent them from lapsing into a state ofinactivity,
always provocative of their inflammatory degeneration
and decay. How much better, thou, is it to adopt this
mild diuretic as a means of inciting them to action, than
to incur the danger of this destruction. To expel from
the system waste matter through the bowels and kid
neys, aud to regulate nud aionse the stomach and liver,
are among the chief uses of this valuable remedy.
A Word to the Corpulent.
Instead of regarding obesity as an abnormal condition,
soma faint attempt at reclamation that only set
off the general desolation more vividly. I was
travelling through a strip of country formerlj
one of the most fashionable and celebrated. It
was her6 in the old days that the millionaires
of New Orleans brought their friends and fami
lies for the summer, haring establishments here
that in splendor and luxurious appointments
equaled anything to be found in this then pro
digal land.” With the gulf rolling at their feet;
with strong saline breizes driving the heat
waves back ; with the best of snrf bathing, yacht
ing, fishing and hunting and with a society
brilliant, well-assured and knit together by the
memory of half-a-dozen generations, they had
all that they desired. 1 learn that in the past
few years this gulf shore has regained much of
its lost glory, and that songs and laughter once
more fill these desolate Louses, and yachts and
sailing boats once more speck the yellow waste
of waters.
Ai length a house of noble proportions, situat
ed on the crest of a matchless bit ot beaoh, ap
proached by handsome and well-kept grounds,
confronted me. My driver stopped and notified
me that this was where Mrs. Dorsey lived. A
gentleman was sitting on the piazza, with a large
table, covered with papers, by his side. A
largo dog wai coming down the walk, and I re
turned to look at the waves that curled up the
beaoh. The barking of the dog at the fence de
termined me to remain in abstracted meditation
on the gulf, until the gentleman, who my driv
er confidentially informed the back of my head
had started to meet me, could reach the gate.
“Did you wish to see any one, sir?”
A kind but grave voice, a tall, slender man,
with brown hair and whiskers tipping out grey,
clear eyes, calm brow, ereot carriage, and inde
scribable air of dignity and sadness. There
was tne first and last president of the Confede
rate Stales of America!
Upon presenting my credentials, Mr. Davis
wolccmed me warmly, and shaking my hand
gravely, l6d the way to the house. Aa we walk
ed up the high, broad steps of the piazaa, a
health, it is uot surprising tnat they should, very natu
rally, fall into the error of supposing that an agent pos
sessing properties capable of reducing corpulency would
prove injurious to the health Reasoning, however, from
the rational basis, that an undue deposition of fat, con
stituting obesity, is not a healthy but a morbid condi
tion. it is quite as natural for us to arrive at the opposite
conclusion, which is sustained by experience and obser
vation, i. e , that the reduction ol' fat in cases of corpu
lency is invariably followed by an improvement of
strength, spirits, aud physical comforts. Allan’s Anti-
Fat will reduce a fat person from 2 to 5 pounds a week.
Sold by druggists.
\ ijne A evgurml Fair.
The gr at market of the Eastern world has been held
at this junction of the Volga aud Olga rivers in Russia,
every summer for hundreds of years. Here the nations
of Europe and Asia meet with their products for trade.
Cossack, Chinese, Turs and Persian meet the Germ an
and the Greek with every variety of merchandise that
mankind enploys, from sapphires to grindstones, tea,
opium, fur, food, tools and fabrics, aud last bat not least,
medicines. J. C. Ayer & Co.'s celebrated remedies from
America were displayed in an elegant Bazaar, where the
Doc or himself might sometimes be Been. They are
known and taken 04 steppes of Asia as well as the prai
ries of the West, and are au effectual antidote for the dis
eases lhat prevail iu the yaourts of the North as well as
the huts aud cabins of the Western continent. — Lincoln
(III.) Jimcs.
llciu Aducrtiscmcnts.
tjHWSI
Tin- Wise Mon of the Lund, the Divine, the
Physician, the Judge, use daily in their homes, and re
commend to all invalids and sufferers from Dyspepsia,
Sick Headache, Sour Stomach, Costiveness, Heartburn,’
Indigestion Piles, Bi lious ttacks. Liver Complaints
Gout and Rheumatic Affections, Nature’s own great and
good Remedy.
Tn
sm.ll kdy, wfi U..K h*, in. Mk. H,y* I iST^^STSSS?
the people for tbe above class of diseases.
wears hers, and looking remarkably like Mrs.
Mary E. Bryan, the anchoress, came oat of the
SOLD BY ALL DRUGGLSTS.
Is a compound of the virtues of sarsaparilla,
st.illiugia, mandrake, yellow dock, with the
iodide of potash aud iron, all powerful blood-
making, blood-cleansing, and life-sustaining
elements. It is the purest, safest, and in
every way the most effectual alterative medi
cine known or available to the public. The
sciences of medicine and chemistry have
never produced so valuable a remedy, nor
one so potent to cure all diseases resulting
from impure blood. It cures Scrofula, and
all scrofulous diseases, Erysipelas, Rose,
or St. Anthony’s Fire, Pimples and
Face-grubs, Pustules, Blotches, Boils,
Tumors, Tetter, Humors, Salt Rheum,
Seal(l-head, Ringworm, Ulcers, Sores,
Rheumatism, Mercurial Disease, Neu
ralgia, Female Weaknesses and Irregu
larities, Jaundice, Affeetious of the
Liver, Dyspepsia, Emaciation, and
General Debility.
By its searclung and cleansing qualities
it purges out the foul corruptions which
contaminate the blood, and cause derange
ment and decay. It stimulates aud enlivens
the vital functions. It promotes energy and
strength. It restores and preserves health.
It infuses new life and vigor throughout the
whole system. No sufferer from any disease
which arises from impurity of the blood need
despair, who will give Ayer’s Sarsaparilla
a fair trial. Remember, the earlier the
trial, the speedier the cure.
Its recipe has been furnished to physicians
everywhere; and they, recognizing its supe
rior qualities, administer it iu their practice.
For nearly forty years Ayer’s Sarsapa
rilla has boon widely used, and it now pos
sesses the confidence of millions of people
who have experienced l>enetits from its inax-
velluus curative virtues.
Prepared by Dr. J. C. Ayer & Co.,
Practical and Analytical Chemists,
Lowell, Mass.
. ,®° LD ffr all druggists everywhere.
T-i-lw
asii itilfll Hi Painless Cure. A
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