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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. f 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¬ stead of aches and pains, wouldn’t you ratner feel fresh and strong? If you continue feeling miserable and good-for-nothing you have only yourself will surely to blame, for Brown s Iron Bitters cure you. It is a certain cure for dyspepsia, kidney, lung indigestion, and heart affections. malaria, weakness, Try it if you desire to be healthy, robust and strong, and experience its remarkable curative quali¬ ties. The anarchists of rhicago. Ill., are very active distribut.ng inflammatory placards. B. B. B. RAPID CURE OP CARBUNCLES. Sam M. 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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¬ itable in Atlanta. A Radical Core for Epileptic Rita. To the Editor—Please inform your readers 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¬ tues that I will send fiee a sample bottle and Valuable treatise to any sufferer who will give me his P O. and Express Pearl address. Resp’y, New York. H.G. ROOT, M. C , 183 St.. The man or woman who Is profitably em¬ ployed nappy it Is may generally be because happy. If have you not are found not you your proper work. We earnestly urge all such persons to write to B. F. Johnson & Co., 1009 Main St., Richmond, Va., and they can show you a work in which you can he happily and profitably employed. A Poser! Why win you suffer liver with and indigestion, Hick-headache, consti¬ pation, piles, few torpid Avill buy Lamburg Figs when a cents enough to relieve your distress ut once and ef¬ fect a cure in a few days ? 25 cents. Dose one 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¬ son’s Eve-water. Druggists sell at 26c. per bottle A A \Kfc The Chief Reason for the marvellous suc¬ cess of nood's Sarsaparilla is found in the fact that this medicine actually accomplishes all that is claimed for it. Its real merit has won sa merit ^ \a/■ Wins _ foi Hood’s Sarsaparilla a popularity and eala greater than that of any other blood purifier. It cures 8erofula, all Humor*, Dyspepsia, etc. Prepared only by C. I. Hood & Co , Lowed, Vast. '♦< V Mi v / & m I .V o [O] W Al » er \ V \ n2r © •o- r. 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 Medical Discovery has cured thousands of cases of this most fatal of maladies. 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¬ ma, Severe Coughs, aud kindred affections, it is an efficient remedy. 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 ^..v. PH: S7MPT0M3 - OF CATABSH.—Headache, P^^Si Into . throat, sometimes obstruction of nose, discharges falling uiueoiis, purulent, bloody profuse, and watery, and acrid, at others, thick, tenacious, difficulty of Clearing throat, putrid ; eyes weak, ringing in ears, dcnfncBS, 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 in tne grave. 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¬ tor to the Treasury. in there.” “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. SODEN MINERAL Sold by all druggist*. Information furnished. SODEN MINERAL SPRINGS CO. 'St: Sole Agents, 15 CEDAR ST., NEW WEEKLY! Ste^Ew and WANTED, sell on sight. Household necessity. No canvassing. Elite Mf C . Co., Pullman Bldg., Chicago. U 0 ME BEKsfflStsas SSfKSBft ®?1h.T38E £Y In 18831 contracted blood Poison MARK of bad type, and was treated with f. “ mercury, potash and sarsaparilla mixtures,growing 1 took worse S. ail t he t ime. 7 small bottles S. S. which cured me entirely, and no sign of the dreadful disease has returned. J. C. Nance, ’■-ft- Jan. 10, ’89. Ilobbyville, Ind. ily little niece had white ewelling : to such an extent that she was con¬ I fined to the bed for a long time. 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 Book on Blood Diseases sent free. a o v y l Swift Specipio Co. Drawer 8, Atlanta, Ga. I F YOU WIBH A Sm kmssoH^ GOOD RKVOI.VEE pnrehase one of the cele¬ brated SMITH A WESSON arms. The finest small arms ever manufactured and the first choice of all experts. Kgl Manufactured in calibre* 82, 38 and M-loo. Sin- gle or double action. Safety Hammerlesa and w 11 " Target models. Constructed entirely ot best qual¬ ity wrought and stock, steel, they carefully inspected for work¬ manship durability nnd are unriraled Donotbedeceiv tot finish, vedby cheap malleable accuracy. cast-iron imitations which are often sold for the genuine article anti are not onlv unreliable, but dangerous. The SMITH A WESSON Revolvers aTe «t« all all stamped stamped upon upon the the bar¬ bar- rels eis with firm’s name », address and dates of patent* pati nta and nd are are guaranteed ed perfect perfect in every detail. In¬ sist upon having the genuine article, and if your dealer cannot supply you an order sent to address below will receive prompt and careful attention. plicaton. Descrptive catalogue and price* furnished upon aj> SMITH & WESSON, PT”Mention this paper. Kpringfield, Slass. OTHERS’ FRIEM MAKES CHILD BIRTH easy IF USED BEFO RE CON FINEMENT. Book to “Mothers’’ MatlediFree. UR AD FIELD RE»! LATOK CD., ATLANTAJGA. Bold by all druggists. Road Carts IS! 10 per cent cheaper Buggies! than anybody. fcWi/on’t bur before j. tting our price* and c*t* tOiraM. THE GEO. W. NASUViLLE. STOCKK1.L CO., N*n»e th.B »M>er. TKNA SI60 SAW FARMERS MILL. EXCISES, Weod Pltotn. Also Heoe’s Im proved i i I l ircularSaw f Mill. i With Universal Log Beam liect linear Simulta¬ neous Set Work and Double Ec¬ centric Friction Feed. SalemYbonSyomo. ^Mannfao- Write for ^ ci rcular. Salem, N. a JONES II PAYS THE FREICHT. Iron 5 T, n Wagon Scales, Levers. .Stcei Bearing, I'rass Tare Beam and Beam Box for- 960. > Every size Scale. For free price I A mention this papf-r and address JONES OF BINGHAMTON, IHSCJliAMTO', N. Y. . 'German ASTHMA AfthmaCare C URED rtlirf the n ever/a a*to give tm- I media’.e in worst caaosAnaares comfort- able sleep; effects cares where a 1 other* fail A \ trial convince* th* mott skeptical. Price 50c. aid CONSUMPTION I positive the above th have a of remedy of for rliaease: br it. os* ousan ids eases the worst kind and of Ion* Btanillnv have ha been cared. So strong is mj faith In its •CBcacr trial I will «end two bott'ee free, together with a valuable treatise on this disease to any sufferer. Give Expren anf P. o, addrses. T. A. 8LOCUM. M. C„ m Paarl St, N. Y WASHINGTON 11 INFORMATION BUREAU, COLE Ac DKEHi.i;, Proprietors. 932 I Street N\ W., Washing:on, l>. V. Geoeral information furnished. Correspondence solicited. mmiisiifi-ssi 2LBa.tr, Headquarters. AV lclllt*, iiantSi. Orators j ! I for clear. say sumption Piso’s keeping 25cente. 13 Curt- THE the for BEST voice Con- mm S B;{U rlllSa Great Rheumatic English Remedy. Gout and Oval Box, 34; round 14 Pills. AP io £8 « ilny. Samp-Hs wortti &2.15 Frre. Lines not under harse’s w- PEERLESS DTES I prescribe and fully only en. doree Big (i as the Certain specific for the certfcia cure SEfbvarantwi ■eBR'i to t days, v ILINGRAHAM.5L D.. TH Btrtetore. cot O. Amsterdam, -> * caose • *3 xrd only by the We have sold Big G for ! Snfvix: Cheaial Co. Ohio. d.Tdycheaco Chicago, 111. •smu 'kartt*l.oo. Bold by Drnggiats. I a. x. c.....~ ......Twenty, ’89