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A MESSAGE.
O’er the great gray breast of the restless sea
A breeze is sighing;
JJot the breeze should sigh, for the breeze is
free—
Free o'er the ocean flying.
’Tis I should sigh by the great gray sea
While the day’s a waning.
Will the breeze not carry a sigh for me
Soft as it goes complaining 0
If a breath crept close and then kissed your
face
As with tender greetutiR,
Would you guess and knowY rough the wide
fresh space
Whence came the voice entreating?
Wouia you bear over there by your great gray
sea
What the wind was saying,
Understand the tale in that whisp’ring plea,
Know what the prayer was praying?
Ah, the breeze comes back with the fair gray
dawn
O’er gray sea stealing,
And the sun greets sea with a fire new bora
Strong for my faint heart's healing.
And I know you said some word to the breeze,
Some word love-meaning,
’’or it kissed me a kiss from the cool soft seas
Sweet hx their tender sheening.
—Alice Corny ns Carr.
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WHAT CAME OF IT.
fcY DINAH STURGIS.
“A very foolish piece of business,” the
neighbors said it was, when it became
noised about that Belle Outhet w-as going
<o Boston.
The Outhets lived on what is known
the country round as the Back Road, but
which is entitled to be called North Kings-
ton. It lies along the foot of the North
untain, in the beautiful Annapolis val-
ley, a mile or so back of the post road
over which the coaches rumbled along
with their mail-bags and passengers be-
fore the day of railroads. Belle’s great-
grandfather was an English squire who
in his day owned half the country round
about, but much of thc land had never
been improved, and the estate had
dwindled in value, until, in Belle’s time
only the Outhet pride and a good-for-
little farm remained to the family.
At Acadia Seminary, where Belle was
-cut to school when she was old enough
'midst Jo go away from home, she was in the
of the poetic Evangeline enough land. It
wtrnld have seemed natural if she
had fallen to dreaming under the spirit of
quiet that pervades the place, or had taken
t<* versifying or to weaving stories out of
the legends with which the country teems.
But ’he did none of these. It was not,
however, until after graduation day, with
its showers of congratulations—showers
that never dampen the spirits of graduates
'<* guests—had come and gone and Belle
■ at home again, that the plans that she
had bee* brewing for the future came to
fiko fight. They were far from being dreara-
or legendary in character.
“I hear the squire’s daughter’s goiu’ to
Boston to study at th’ Instoot of Techno-
lagy, whatever that is,” said Farmer Har¬
ris to his wife, shortly afterward. This
was more than equivalent to putting it in
the Weekly Gosnjxr, because Mrs. Harris
made seven visits to the Gomper's one.
The gossips said: ‘It does beat all
■how people that lievn’t an extra sheep in
t heir fields kin spend so much on edjuca-
*ion, new don’t it?” Aud they confessed
■to each other that they “shud think Belle
O write fc ’A been to school long ’nough.”
The squire was perhaps no less aston¬
ished than some of the wives and maid¬
ens in the village when his daughter
made known her desire to go on study¬
ing, with a view to fitting herself to take
up some one of the sciences professional¬
ly. He was surely a good deal more per¬
plexed. At first there seemed nothing
but objections to the scheme. For one
thing, he did not see liis way clear to af¬
fording the cost of lessons and living in
a big city, and eveu if he could, what
good would scientific studies do Belle, he
reasoned. Perhaps good, old Doctor
Pierce, Belle's godfather, and the squire’s
counselor upon every occasion, talked
him over. At any rate, the doctor
thought Belle’s idea a brilliant one, and
said if she could make herself proficient
in sanitary science, for example, she
could revolutionize thc country. And
very likely the squire's naturally gener¬
ous heart prompted him to make an ex-
>ra effort ; at least, it was soon settled
that Belle was to go to Boston, to study
for something—nobody seemed to know
just wliat, but something wonderful, no
doubt, as she was going to that remark¬
able
The day came when she had to say
good-by to father and mother, to her
■brothers Ernest and Tremaine, who Avere
still mere children, to friends and to the
dear, old home, to the valley and to the
mountains. The good wishes of the
crowd, gathered about the ugly, wooden
box that did duty as a station, followed
her as the cal’s moved off, and Widow
.Mills nearly lost her bonnet through the
car window in saying: 1 ‘The Lord love
you. Miss Belle, and don’t you learn so
much you’ll forget your ole friends, now
will you, dearie?”
Through letters to the Woman's Ex¬
change, the squire had secured a home
for Belle, and a bachelor uncle in New
York had promised to meet her when
she got to Boston, to see her safely set-
tied, and to visit her from time to time,
But the best laid plans “gang aft ao-lev,”
in all truth. Illness kept Uncle Outhet
in New York and when Belle arrived at
her journey’s end there was no one to
*
meet her. To make matters worse the
steamer ^k»!l in bTeamSe, which the last “ part Tl in of g7t the
ting into the harbor, and when the pas-
sengers were set on shore it was after
dark, in a driving rain storm. The voy-
age had been a rough one. and sea-sick-
ness had reduced Belle to a state of utter
wretchedness, and to find herself friend-
less in a strange land was not calculated
to raise her spirits. But the mere act of
stepping off the tilting ship upon mother
earth was a jov in itself, and her natural
'
presence of mind stood her in good
stead now
In writing home about the experiences
of that conclusion^there first nj-rht. she said she came to
the was no need of being
nervous. for there were officials in uni-
form standing about on every hand with
apparently nothing to do in the world but
a0S wer questions for just such novices as
she was. She know where she wanted to
go, and thev could tell her how to get
The good-natured custom-house
officer examined her luggage in what he
called quick metre, and an obliging
policeman picked out a hackman, whom
he knew to be an honest fellow, for her.
-ind that was all. Belle said it was not
much of an emergency, after all, when
one had eves and ears and a tongue, and
knew enough not to ask questions of any-
body who did not wear some kind of a
a< ge to show who he was.
*?'. “et groaned in spirit . . when she
go . ais j letter, at the idea of girl driv-
a
ing ,i >out a strange city after dark, quite
unprotected, but the doctor said: “Trust
to Belle s common-sense, my dear Mrs.
u ic-t. A bright, level-headed girl like
S Tvf CaD ^ ke care herself. ’
he excitement of getting established
a lotne and at school occupied the first
ew daj*s, without leaving a loop-hole for
omesickness to creep in. Belle had
argued with herself that she could not
afford to indulge in it at any time, and if
it laid pretty desperate siege to her peace
of mind during the next winter.she never
confessed it in her letters home, though,
if the truth must be told, it sometimes
needed a deal of courage to keep from
capitulating.
Matters did not always go smoothly,
In what walk in life do they, pray? But
there was the pure delight "of study that
nothing could lessen. To offset minor
perplexities that one never gets wholly
away from, there were the agreeable
courtesies shown her by new friends,
To one particular circle of people Belle
always felt especially grateful. This was
a clnb of musicians who held fortnightly
“at homes,” to which they made a point
of inviting students who were strangers
or alone in the city. To these delightful
musical evenings Belle owed many agree¬
able hours and pleasant friendships.
With various long-goings and short¬
comings the school years wore away. The
first summer vacation Belle spent at home;
the second year she worked right on
through the summer, devoting the vaca¬
tion season to additional studies.
Commencement came at last, and, as
be surmised, when obstacles had
l}eeQ encountered as a matter of course
and had never been turned into bugbears,
Belle had 8 ood reason to be ha PPy over
her years _)f hard work - Tlie ink on her
thesis was ^vrely dry when a request from
thc col,e £ e at Halifax to the Institute of
Technology to recommend a teacher of
sanitar y science to them, was formally
P resented to Miss 0uth et.
Surcl y: steamer never sailed so slowly
as the one that bore her home, but then
^ was heavily freighted with hopes and
ambi tious. The chance to at once step
into useful and remunerative professional
work was held a P re cious secret until she
feachtid home. The pride she felt in it
was surel y of an honest, sort, for was it
not a P roof that s he had not been mis-
taken in thinking she could be of some
use in thc worId? But there was no com *
meudation of school and college that
compared in value with the pride in
Squire Outhet’s “to think of this being
my Belle?”
With a long summer vacation on her
hands, the active little woman cast about
for something to do that would be relax¬
ation from study and still keep her out of
mischief. There it was, acres of it,
spread out on every side, and Belle quite
took her father’s breath away by suggest¬
ing that they should go to work, he and
her, to improve the estate. No wonder
the squire was dumbfounded at the idea
of a yoUng woman attempting to do what
generations of men had undone, but
Belle was very much in earnest, and turn
the matter over as he would, he could see
no good reason for refusing to let her
try the experiment.
Before long the neighbors were greatly
exercised over the spectacle of the squire
and his daughter “trampin’ up an’ down
the mountain, across back lots an’ low
lands, a surveyin’ an’ goin’ on a great
rate.”
The women said they “sud think she’d
better be a spinnin’ or doin’ somethin’
useful,” hut thc men said: “Let her
alone an’ see what she kin do* There’s
no better place in th’ country than th’
squire’s, if ’twnz only looked after, but
he don’t know anything about farmin’;
wuz always in politics, same’s all his fam-
ily when he wuz younger, An’ now he
won’t sell a foot of his land; won’t do
nothin’ with’t himself, ner let any one liev
Soon after this fences began to go up
on the Outhet place, and then it was re¬
ported through the village that the squire
had “actually got a stumpin’ machine.”
This, in face of his prejudice against
“new fangled notions,” was certainly re¬
markable. But the new machine was
nothing more nor less than a home made
contrivance, the product of circum¬
stances—and a little wood and iron. The
men on the place had said they could “do
nothin* with them fields west o’ th’ old
orchard s’long’s ther’s nothin’ to root out
th’ stumps with,” and Belle had said:
“Well, we will have something to root
them out with.” Simple laws of physics
furnished the plan; Belle explained the
principles to Jim and Dana—men who
had grown up in the squire's family and
knew less about managing affairs on an
estate than the squire himself, “which
was needless,” as the gossip were fond
of saying—and in the end, the stump
problem was soh’ed. Belle soou found
out that the dilapidated state of affaire
was due to the habit of letting eA-erythiug
drift from au indifferent state to bad,
from bad to Avorse. Merely locating the
trouble helped to rout it. It was not
long before the squire could see that
science was useful in other places than
schools. It did not stop with
making stump machines. It helped
to make dressing for the stumpless fields,
it shed light upon the economy of keep-
ing the live stock warmly housed and
dean through cold weather, it traced
Tremaine's illness to the old well be-
tween the stable and the house, closed it
up, and brought water to the house in
pipes from the living spring east of the
garden. Its al power, at least with so able
So exponent BeUe proved be seemed
limitless. It showed how easily they
might, have ice through the summer bv
utilizing the pond that hitherto had been
given to the ducKS and to the skaters by
turn, and a little ice-house on the north
*ide of the hollow went up almost by
magic. The squire s latent vigor began
to show itself. He wondered no one had
ever thought of turning the lowland be-
low the road into a cranberry bog until
Belle suggested it. and then he astonished
idmself deciding there was nothing to
prevent two young orchards being set
out.
The neighbors said they “never see the
beat uv it/’ and Belle was even a good
deal surprised herself to see what kuowl-
edge could do in the place of heedlessness
and ignorance. The spell of decay once
broken, its power was gone. The enl
work of years was not undone m a sum-
mer or in two. but it was effaced as
had grown, in time, that cures all ills.
Last summer Hester Pierce, a former
classmate, who has succeeded to her ,
uncle’s practice in Kingston and Upper :
Aylesford, asked me to visit her. While
I was there I had the pleasure of meeting i
the squire and Mrs. Outhet, and of going
all over the fine, old Outhet estate. )
The*; is nothing like it, it is said, h this
country, and it is not hard to believe that
this is so. Art and nature together have
combined to produce results that seemed
little short of marvelous in some places,
Hester had already told me some of the
story of the place, and the squire told me
much more that there is not time to set
down here. He pointed with especial
pride to the immense cranberry bog that
we could see just beyond the old French
burying ground, and told me it had paid
the expenses of both his boys through
college, and that his daughter had estab-
lished a cranbury fund, as she called it,
now, so the proceeds yearly shall go to
help some poor student. I was soiry not
to meet the accomplished daughter of the
good squire and his lady, as I-had hoped
to do, but she was away from home,
lecturing. Dr. Hester said it was
astonishing to see what improvements
sanitary science had brought about
through the dominion, and all primarily
due to the pioneer teaching and writing
an( l lecturing of Professor Outhet, as
Belle is called, The oldest son is
associated with his sister now, and the
second boy is proud to call himself a
scientific farmer.— todies' Home Cam-
panion.
Balloon Adventures in the Clouds.
To some extent rain retards upward
progress, but, says Professor S. A. King,
in the Nashville (Tenn.) American, I have
made a number of ascensions in the face
of storms, Snow T , however, is much
more of an obstacle, and in a short time
will accumulate upon the top of the
balloon sufficiently to drive it to the
earth.
The clouds are sometimes as much as
3000 feet from top to bottom when the
sky is entirely overcast. Often even above
such a body of cloud may be seen smallei
clouds with clear spaces in between.
When within one of these spaces the
sensation is that of being in a vault.
With the solid snowy clouds below you
and the smaller clouds around you being
by perspective brought close around, it
appears as if you were in a cavern.
I have been above the clouds during a
snowstorm, and the light of the moon
shining so brightly through the rarified
air produced au illumination rather super¬
natural. I have very frequently passed
through frozen clouds. This is where
vapor has fallen below the freezing point
and been congealed into a substance re¬
sembling Hour in appearance. This falls,
and in doing so reaches a higher tempera¬
ture, where the small particles are
aggregated into flakes of snow.
Some clouds, however, present very
much the appearance of a veil, and ob¬
jects on the earth can he distinctly dis¬
cerned from a position above them.
I have never known of an in-
stance in which a balloon was hit by
lightning. The thunder does not make
a perceptibly greater noise than when
you are on the ground. The sound pro¬
ceeds from the upper layers of clouds, as
does also the rain; and in many cases,
when the lower strata appear very violent,
perfect quiet there reigns except for such
motion as is produced by the rain falling
through from above. The upper currents
are most active, and a cyclone or a wild
storm is perhaps produced according as
those upper currents descend to or remain
above the earth.
Strangely Restored Faculties.
A most peculiar case is interesting the
people of the Holly neighborhood in
Webster County, W. Va. Abraham Mc-
Masters has long been a well-known
citizen of that section. His family con¬
sisted of five children, two girls and three
boys, all in perfect health except the
youngest, a boy of seventeen, whose mind
had been affected from birth. He was
what is in provincial sections known as
simple. With the greatest difficulty he
had been taught to read, and by years of
laborious application had learned what
most children of five years know. He
was harmless, good-natured aud in¬
dustrious. Early last fall the boy was
sent to mill. Not returning at the ex¬
pected hour, nor for some time later,
search was instituted and the imbecile
was found unconscious by the roadway.
Blood oozed from his nose and ears, and
his head appeared to have been struck by
some blunt instrument. A cheap watch
and some change the lad had were gone;
giving evidence that the boy had been
assaulted aud robbed. He was taken
home and remained unconscious for two
weeks. At the end of that time the boy
became as a new-born child. His eyes
rolled, and he had no control over his
limbs and was cared for just as an infant.
In time his teeth came out and he is now
cutting a new set just as a baby. He
first crawled, then began to walk.
Speech came gradually, as with all in¬
fants, though much earlier, if his age
can be measured from the time of his in¬
jury. He is now able to go about as a
four-year-old does, his mincl is clear, nnd
he is everything except stature of a boy
of four or five years. So far as can be
learned he has no recollection of his past
life, and scenes he knew well then are
now unfamiliar to him. He treats his
former playmates as strangers, and plays
with toys and wooden horses as do the
babies of the neighborhood. Physicians
say he will grow into au intelligent,
healthy man. — Chicago Tunes.
Tlie Cardiff Giant in Seclusion.
In a small garden attached to one of
the most frequented resorts in El Paso,
Texas, lies a stone image of heroic size,
which some twenty years ago created an
unbounded sensation, not only among
the public generally, but also among
scientists. It is the celebrated Cardiff
gta* After Bamum had done with i,
and the charm of novelty had worn off,
this noted fraud knocked about the coun-
try from post to pillar until finally, at El
Paso, it was attached and sold to uefray
a board bill and transportation expenses,
It is fast going to wreck, as the visitors
are in the habit of cuipping off pieces of
the giant for keepsakes. The breaking
of one of the massive legs has disclosed
the fact that the interior of the figure
was filled with a heavy frame of iron rods
holding it st :urely together. —Atlanta
Constitution.
Ancient Roses.
Flinders Petrie discovered, rot long
ago in an ancient Egyptian tomb, remains
of a number of roses which had been
bound into a garland and buried with
the dead. Monsieur Crepin has examined
these roses, and recently read a paper..re-
lating to them before the Royal Society
of Belgium. The nine blossoms he had
secured we re all imperfect* but belonged
t
to tlie same species. So far as he could
judge, cultivatedin they resembled Abyssinia most to-day, closely which a
rose
is described under the name of josa
saneta, as it is grown in the vicinity of
temples .—Prairie Farmer. . _
OYER THE GLOBE.
CONDENSATION OF CURTOIJS ,
AND EXCITING EVENTS.
FBAXCE’s PKBJX—STRIKES—THF. WESTERN BOOM
—DEATHS Or EMINENT MEN—ACCIDENTS, FIBES
AND SUICIDES.
An enormous land slide has occurred
at Spiessback, Geimany, destroying the
villages, forests and cattle.
The strike of the weavers in the cot¬
ton factories at Trizy, France, is ended,
mutual concession having been male.
The Illinois House of Representatives
passed a bill appropriating $50,000 for a
monument to the late Gen. John A. Lo-
gan.
Mrs. Mary Lambrechf, a bride of hut
ten days, was run over Wednesday in
Chicago, III., and killed by one of
Yerkes' cable cars.
Many arrests were made Wednesday in
St. Petersburg and Moscow, Russia, in
connection with the discovery of a new
plot against the czar.
Two Germans were nearly lynched at
a socialist meeting in Zurich, Switzer¬
land. They were suspected of being
spies. They were arrested.
Coningby Disraeli, nephew of the late
Lord Beaconsficld, made his first public
speech at the bar in London, Wednes¬
day. He denounced home rule.
The country around Newnan, Ga.,
was visited Monday with an infant cy¬
clone, accompanied by hail and wind
and rain, bloftviDg down trees aud fences.
The strike at Dortmund, Germany is
spreading, strikers are assembling at the
pits and parading streets and menacing
employes at the water works which
supply the districts.
The president of the fruit exchange
of Vienna, Aus., announces that in conse¬
quence of the Jewish boycott, the street
market will not be held unless the gov¬
ernment intervenes.
The London Standard says, the Ulster
peers &nd unionist members of the
Mouse of Commons arc pressing the gov¬
ernment to abolish the office of lord
lieutenant of Ireland.
S. F. Anderson, aged fifty, of Nebras¬
ka City, Neb., married a widow', aged
fifty-nine, a few days ago, and during
the wedding night became violently in¬
sane. He tried to kill her and then
made several unsuccessful attempts to
commit suicide.
The east gable wall of an old high
stoop house, on Spring street in New
York city, which is being torn down to
make room for a big business building,
fell on Monday while some men were at
work under it. Two men were killed
outright; another was fatally huit.
The license courtof Philadelphia, Pa.,
on Tuesday, handed down its second in
stallment of decisions in cases of appli¬
cants for liquor licenses. Only 400 appli¬ li¬
censes were granted out of 1,390
cants. The licenses decreased 4,000
in a year.
Frank Ryan and Harry Sadler, two
young men arrested upon the charge of
attempting to wreck the New York and
Chicago limited vestibule train on the
Pittsburg, Fort Wayne & Chicago
Road recently, broke down and signed
a confession of guilt Monday, giving
the details of their crime.
An accident occurred at the Michigan
Car Works in Detroit, by which one man
lost his life outright and three more were
fatally hurt. A gang of laboreis were
unloading a brace carload of iron, when some
part of the holding the load broke
and several tons of iron fell on the men,
completely burying them.
A conspiracy has been discovered
among the military officers stationed in
St. Petersburg, Russia. A large number
of the conspirators have been arrested.
In theit possession were found papers
which proved that they intended to
make an attempt to assassinate the czar.
A number of bombs were also found.
A terrific storm Harrisonburg, passed Ya., over the
country around Sim-
dny. New s of damage is just coming in.
Lightning destroyed several barns arid
stables. Much stock w T as killed. Part
of the country was visited by a severe
hail storm, which literally destroyed the
w heat crop and fences and houses were
blown down.
The ferry boat Peerless, plying be¬
tween Philadelphia, Pa., and Gloucester,
N. J., collided with the Philadelphia &
Reading Railroad ferry boat J. S.
Schultze, Wednesday, in Delaware river,
badly injuring five yoting women passen¬
gers on the Schultze, and carrying away
a portion of the latter’s ladies’ cabin
Two of the injured girls will probably
die.
Tcli brigands were hanged in Wed¬ the
courtyard of the prison at Sofia, on
nesday. They were led separately to
the scaffold. Eight were hangid in
succession. Each man was enveloped in
a bag parsed overhead and reaching io
the Avaist. Their struggles mob were broke pro¬
longed several minutes. A
through the cordon, surrounding the
jail, and the gendarmes had great diffi¬
culty in keeping them away from the
scalfohl.
A BAPTIST CONVENTION
PA93 STRONG RESOLUTIONS ABOUT SUN¬
DAY OB8EUYANCE AND PROHIBITION.
There was only one session of the
Southern Baptist Convention at Mem-
phis, and Tenn., which concluded its labors
adjourned on Tuesday. Dr. T\. E.
Hatcher, of Georgia, introduced the fol-
Sabba Vunion islabormg to secure sueh
ional fS legislation SSoSl as will government allow ern-
D one
day in seven ag a ,j. lv of regt . therefore,
Resolved. That we fully sympathize J ^ with
thig important object th American
Sabbath Union, and request our brethren
j 0 promote its work, as far as mar be
practicable.” The following resolutions
offered by Dr. J. R. Scanfill, of Texas,
were also unanimously adopted: “Where-
as, The liquor traffic is a most powerful
hindrance to the Gospel of Christ and an
aggressive enemy to social order; and,
whereas, this traffic is steadily encroach-
ms upon all that Christian men revere
aad the .^ man hea rt h °,
reas, it seeks , to , destroy . the Umst-
e
. ptwic '; con^c“u«:‘ anaf ’ whe'reTlll ^
cbt , ; iM sh I(i k ont D0
uncer!ain tones on this Question- ’ there-
fore V Reiolved bv the Southern Baptist
Con ent i on assembled, that we favor the
gpee<jy and entire prohibition of the
liquor traffic; that we oupose license for
tb ; s traffic in any and all of its forms
through which men buy the right to de-
blight 6troy human human hope souls and happiness and
public as an offense against
morals, and.a sin against God.”
SOMETHING YOU SHOULD KNOW.
is Many Bright’s of our readers have often asked “What
Disrase o* the Kidneys, about which
we hear have so much?" To answer "their question
we secured the following explanatory arti¬
cle, written by a competent authority:
One of the wor=d physical scourges of the
world to-dav—notably and in England, Germany,
America Au-tralia—is Kidney Disease. An
alarmingly of the large proportion of the population
countries named is afS.eted with it, in
one form or another.
The symptoms of Bright’s Disease (which is
but an advanced form of Kidney Disease) differ
in different individual but generally the pa¬
tient presents a flabby, bloodless look, is drow¬
sy and easi.y fatigued, has pain in the back,
tomiting and febrile disturbance. Dropsy, va¬
rying in degree from slight puffiness of the
face to an accumulation of the fluid sufficient
to distend the whole body and to occasion se¬
rious embarrassment to respiration, is a very
common accompaniment. The ur.ne is reduced
color, in quantity, is often of dark, smoky or bloody
and exhibts to chemical reaction the
presence of a large amount of albumen, while
under the microscope blood corpuscles and casts
are found. Very often dimness of vsion, due
to a morbid condition of the retina of the eye,
and a so hypertrophy of the liea t, leading to
fatal apoplexy, are accompaniments of the dis¬
ease.
'i here are several forms of the malady, but
their common prominent characteristic "is the
presence - of albumen in the urine, and fre¬
quently at-sociated also the co-existence of dropsy. These
symptoms, in connection with Kidney
Itiehard Disease, were first described in 1827 by Dr.
investigated Bright, an English physician, who first
them. Som times there is a de¬
generation of the tissues of the kidney into fat,
thus impairing the excreting powers of the or¬
gan so that the urea is not sufficiently sepa¬
rated from the blood. The flow of the blood,
when charged with this urea, is retarded
through the miuute vessels, congestion ensues,
and exudation of albumen and fibrin is the re-
8U t. The disease is often accompanied by
eruptions on the skin, with as boils, enlargement etc., and is fre¬
quently associate! of the
heart.
The causes of tlis terrible malady arc, indul¬
gence in too much ice-water as a beverage,
strong drink, high living, indigestion, expo-
sttre to wet and cold, various kinds of fevers,
malaria, pregnancy, and other bo lily derange¬
ments, such as a complication of certain acute
diseases, like erysipelas, diphtheria, and espe¬
cially scarlet fever and (of which it is affects), one of dis¬ the
most frequent serious after
eases of bones and other scrofulous affections.
The kidneys being th; most important excre¬
tory organs of tlie body, their derangement may
speedily desiroy life.
Common-sense treatment of Kidney Disease
of the character referred to necessarily involves
reuio\ al of the causes, rectification of other
secretions aud increase in the number of blooJ-
red corpuscles, by the administration specific of the War¬ ad¬
ner’s Safe Cure. It is a even in
vanced stages, restoring when the blood has poisoned of healthy the
nerve centres, the secretion
fluids and relieving the congestion of the brain.
It speedily arrests the inflammatory action,
which is marked by an increased amount of
urine. The album n gradua.ly disappears, There the
dropsy subsides and the pit tent recovers.
is no standstill in advanced Kidney Disease;
1 hose who are afflicted with it are either con¬
stants growing better or worse. How import¬
ant, therefore, that this terrible disease betaken
in hand in t.me and treated with a known spe¬
cific.
In a new-born child the pulse beats
150 in a minute; at one year old, 110;
at two 75; from seven to fourteen, 85;
in the adult, man 72; and in a woman,
80. Frequency of the pulse-beat is in¬
creased by drinking hot water or tea,
diminishing by drinking these cold.
Adding a warm covering to the clothing
of the body increases the pulse by about
ten beats a minute. Metal activity dimin¬
ishes it m< re or less.
Instead of feeling tired and worn out, In¬
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The anarchists of rhicago. Ill., are very
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Sam M. Leeman, May 7, 1888, writes: “I had
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bottle of B. B. B. caused them all to disappear,
and I have not been bothtred since.”
INFLAMATION OF THE EYES.
O. P. Shell, Warrenton, N. C., April 17,
1888, writes: “In the morning my eyes would
sling and burn, and if rubbed would inflame
ahd swell up. Two botllts of B. B. B. made a
firm cure.”
A QUICK HE 1LTH RENE WEB.
William It. Talley, Neals’ Landing, Eia.,
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the broken out places on my limbs, aud my
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A HEALTH PRESERVER.
P. A. Shepherd, Norfolk, Va., August 10,
1888, writes : “I depend on B. B. B. for the
preservation family of my health. I have had it in my
now nearly two years, and in all that
time have not had to have a doctor.”
HE BECAME BALD.
L. Johnson, Belmont Station, Miss., writes :
“B. B. B. has worked on me like a charm. My
head and body was covered with sores, and my
hair came out, but B. B. B. healed me quickly.”
A bogus corpse is used to deceH'e the char¬
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A Radical Core for Epileptic Rita.
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thA I have a positive remedy for the above the
named disease which I warrant to cure
woret cases. So strong is my faith in its vir¬
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when a cents
enough to relieve your distress ut once and ef¬
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Fig. Mack Drug Co., N. Y.
the Nothing so completely robs confinement of
pain and suffering attending it as the use
of The Mother’s Friend. Sold by druggists.
Best, easiest to use, and cheapest. Piso’s
Remedy for Catarrh. By Dr ggists, 50c.
If afflicted with sore eyes use Dr. Isaac Thomp¬
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a popularity and eala
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ASLEEP ON THE RAILROAD TRACK.
A little child, tired of play, had pillowed his head on a rail cud fnffen
and asleep. The train was almost upon him when a passing stranger rushed forward
saved him from a horrible death. Perhaps you are asleep on the track, too.
You are, if you are neglecting the hacking cough, the hectic flush, the loss of
appetite and growing weakness and lassitude, which have unconsciously crept
upon you. Wake up, or the train will be upon you ! Consumption, which thus
insiduously approach, fastens its hold upon its victims while they are unconscious of its
must be taken in time, if it is to be overcome. Dr. Pierce's Golden
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If taken in time, and given a fair trial, it will cure, or all money paid for
it will be promptly reniudei
For Weak Lungs, Spitting of Blood, Shortness of Breath, Bronchitis, Asth¬
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Copyright, 1888, by World’s Dispensary Medical Association, Proprietors.
I &€>00 MaMnMnDanMBMaa proprietors of DR. SAGE’S for Catarrh CATARRH an Incurable in the REMEDY. Head case by the of
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offensive; smell and taste impaired, expectoration and of offensive matter; breath
♦tiw-ji these symptoms likely to be genera! debility. Only a few of
consumption, and end in present at once. Thousands of cases result
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By the its . mild, soothing, anti-septic, cleansing, and healing properties. Dr. Sage’s Remedy
cures worst cases. Only 51) cents. Sold by druggists everywhere.
Growth of the Postal Service.
It is estimated at the Post Office De¬
partment that the deficiency in the rev¬
enues of the postal service of the fiscal
year just closed will be about £4,000,-
000. Last year the deficiency was some¬
thing over $5,500,009. Owing |o the
cheap rates of postage, especially for.
newspapers, the bulk of mail matter has
increased at such a rate that the cost of
the servico has grown immensely. The
force of employees, especially in the
large offices, is taxed to handle the
quantity in. of matter In that daily comes
pouring some instances the
newspapers are not sent to the post
office at all, but are weighed and stamp¬
ed at the-office of publication by some
one authorized to do tlie work, and the
bags are sent this directly to tlie railroad
depots. that If were not done, it is
stated some of the large post offices
would be overwhelmed, and that it
would be impossible to handle the mat¬
ter with by any the dispatch or accuracy, It is
thought for post office officials that
the statistics the year just ended will
show a large increase in the number of
letters mailed. At present England is
the greatest let ter-writing nation in the
world. The annual ratio of increase in
this class of mail matter is much greater
in this country than in England, and if
the present rate continues, in a few
years the United States will stand at the
head as writing more letters per capita
than any other nation. The bulk of
mail matter, or the number of pieces
handled by the United States Postal
Service is now greater than any other
country, but this is mainly due to the
extensive circulation of the newspapers.
—Washington Star.
Couldn’t Get Away With Much.
“United States Sub-Treasurer Sut¬
ton, suppose a thief should get into
your big vault some night?” said a visi¬
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“No thief can get
“Bet suppose he could?”
“It is impossible.” clever fellon
“But say that some
did get in, how much could he carry
away in gold?”
“Not more than $25,000. We put
that much in double eagles in a single
bag, the weight of which is 100 pounds.
That is a good deal of weight in a mighty
small bundle, making it hard to carry.
A tliief would have hard Avork to run
with one of those bags, aud ho couldn’t
manage to lug two to save save his life.
You have no idea how hard it is to cany
a 100-pound bag of gold. The weight all
is so concentrated. But after no
thief can get in here. The safes are ab¬
solutely proof against burglars. ”
Colors Front Coal-Tar.
Coal-tar, formerly a troub’esome waste
of the gas industry, affords us ab >ut
sixteen distinct yellow colors, about
twelve oranges, more thin tliiny reds,
about sixteen blues, seven greea«, nine
violets, and a number of browns and
blacks, besides mixtures of several com¬
pounds, number producing shades an almost infinite
of and tones of color.
Governor Francis, of Missouri, has
signed the grain option bill, which be¬
comes its a law. The bill virtually prohib¬
all dealing in grain options, unless
thn parties dealing in such options ac¬
tually own the grain. It is causing
greit dissatisfaction among "rain dealers.
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In 18831 contracted blood Poison
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mixtures,growing 1 took worse S. ail t he t ime.
7 small bottles S. S. which
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the dreadful disease has returned.
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: to such an extent that she was con¬
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More than 20 pieces of bone carao
amputation out of her leg, and the the only doctors remedy said
was to
save and her her life. I refused S.S.S. and the operation is
LO put on she now
upc nd active nnd In as good health as
any child. Miss Annie Gkeslino,
Feb. 11, ’89. Columbus, Ga
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