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BOSTON'S WORK-WOMEN.
SOME OF THEIR SUFFERING"’ \M>
THEIR FORTHTOE AS REVEALED
IN BOFFIN’S BOWER.
A Philanthropic Institution that Relieves
Some of tlieir Distress— Wlmt it Has
Done for the Working Women.
Boffin’s Bower is one of the many in¬
stitutions for the benefit of women,
particularly for working women, that tbe
are the just pride of Boston. From
fourteenth and latest report of Boffin’s
Bower, submitted by Miss Jennie Col
lins, its Vice-President and Secretary,
we learn that the obj-c: of the Bower is
mainly to furnish employment for wom¬
en. Some of the statements made in
the course of the report are interesting
and suggestive. For instance :
“It is averred that the city of Boston
holds §28 000,000 in trust for charitable
purposes, but tied up Id such a manner
that the very class who did tlieir part
toward its accumulation, if they become
poor by accident, are wholly excluded
from its benefits, because laws have
been made by another generation that
placa it beyond the reach of the very
people who contribute day by day to its
existence.”
In what institution or in what manner
that immense sum is invested so as to
afford no benefit to those who make or
contribute to the fund, and why it Miss can¬
not be reached for tlieir benefit,
Collins does not make very clear in her
report. She declares that “chronic pov¬
erty is willing to be exhibited, dis¬
cussed, arranged and disposed of for
the benefit of associations,” while “ac¬
cidental poverty suffers not only neglect,
but withering insults, because the par¬
ties are not traiued up as mendicants,
and the further they are removed from
the instincts of a pauper the more nn
fit they are to come in contact with
professional philanthropists.”
After relating a number of touching
cases of accidental poverty among work
ing women relieved by the Bower comes
the statement:
“In the city of Boston there are
twenty thousand one hundred and fif
teen (20,115) shop girls; and, owing to
the good sense and healthy state of pub
he opinion in regard to labor a vast
number of the twenty thousand one
hundred and fifteen are not obliged to
work. They come from hoine3 of com
fort, and in many cases of affluence
(Can this be true ?), bringing not only
physical strength and a high intelli
gence, but an ardent enthusiasm, to
whatever occupation they adopt for their
regular employment. That class are al
ways very desirable employees, as they
would naturally develop fine taste, great
skill and rapid execution. But it bears
heavily upon the multitude who are less
favored, as so many are compelled to
work under great disadvantage—poor
health—others depending on them for
support, deprived of rest when they
need it, and burdened with care of
parents, invalids, or children, till their
strength their of mind and body is taxed to
utmost tension.
“Piece work is generally the rule;
and, in order to fix the price, one of the
most 'nd accomplished jjft experts in swiftness
skill ' “
piece. She will, of course, c ,
to retain the high opinion of her em¬
ployer; and by the time it takes her to
accomplish a certain amount of work
the terms of the whole shop are estab¬
lished, Then comes the terrible ordeal
to keep up. be¬
“There are always a great number
hind in the race. They carry their work
home nights, and overtax themselves,
knowing that they won’t be allowed to
take up room in the shop unless they
can accomplish so much work, nor will
their names appear in the pay roll.
Many are obliged to live a great distance
from their place of employment, in or¬
der to save house rent. Frequently
they ride in the morning, and walk
home at night. But half of their priva¬
tions can never be told. They are voice¬
less. powerless and forgotten.
“But it is their industry, self-denial,
and close application that contribute a
vast portion of the one hundred aud fif¬
teen million dollars in weafh accumula¬
ted annually in this city. They are ex¬
cluded from the numerous benefit
societies established to aid men, al¬
though the assessments of tlieir male
relatives are frequently paid out of their
hard-earned money. Iu a political cam¬
paign they are called upon by tlieir
brothers to furnish funds to purchase
uniforms, torchlights and music. (What
a revelation !)
“From time to time, efforts have been
made to assist them by cheap lodgings
and board, but at the present are dis¬
continued, as no other person knows
how to economize for them as well as
they know how to economize for them¬
selves.
“In addition to the twenty thousand
one hundred and fifteen women (20,115)
employed in shops, there are fifteen
thousand nine hundred and sixtv-six
(15,968) in domestic service, including
boarding houses and restaurants. They
change from one occupation to the oth¬
er; in wiuter, shop work is prosperous; and
in summer, they go to the beaches
other resorts of’the season. Frequently
they are cheated out of their pay, and
then it is necessary for the Bower to
give them suitable clothing, and be re¬
sponsible for debts they contract in or¬
der to give them a new start.”
The number of women for whom em¬
ployment was found by the Bower dur¬
ing the year ending May 30, 1884, was
1,360. The number of free dinners
given to poor women and girls was 2,600,
and there was food also given to others
to cook at home.
In conclusion Mass Collins says :
“The great problem to be solved is
this : One hundred and fifty million
dollars (150,000,000) are annually accu¬
mulated in Boston. This is the result
of hand and brain in developing the re¬
sources within human power. Of course,
there must be a vast amount of waste
somewhere, or it could not be possible
to find women compelled to work hard
for the small pittance of two dollars and
a half (82.50) and three dollars (S3) per
week, to board and clothe themselves
with.
“Why should indifferent, the pulpit and press re¬
main so when both wield
such mighty influence ? The press could
take this Commonwealth bv the four
corners, and shake it up in the centre,
and spread it out again. ’
Have not the press and the pulpit of
New York city and State a similar duty
to perform for the working women of
this great Commonweath aud metrop¬
olis? Who will look into the condition
of our New York working women as
coolly, aud asserts their rights as brave¬
ly and as intelligently as Miss Jennie
Collins of Boifiu’s Bower? E. Y. B.
AY ECCEYTKIC (>EI> FARMER.
Announcing Iris Own Funeral and Iben
Hilling Himself in an Oven.
John S. Satrnn»no, the eccentric oin
farmer who, on Thanksgiving Day, had
a paralytic fit ami, falling upon his red
hot stove, was found alone and inseusi
bie with iiis face aud head burned to a
crisp, aud who now lies in a critical con¬
dition, is known all over Orange county,
N. Y. He lives in the town of Crawford,
and a Sun correspondent tells this story
about him:
Years ago he provided himself with a
complete burial outfit. He also pur¬
chased coffins for the burial of his dogs
and cats, his only companions. He
bought his own coffin and set the day
for his own funeral. His arrangements
were complete for the burial service.
Even the shroud was arranged and the
undertaker engaged to officiate at the
ceremony. He also bought a dozen
pairs of black gloves for the pall bearers
and it is said a clergyman was engaged.
The entire population of the surround¬
ing country became excited over the
event, and when the time arrived for the
ceremony plows were stopped, farmers
donned their Sunday clothes and house¬
wives let their churns stand still in
order to attend it. Hundreds congre¬
gated at the old man's house, and hard¬
ly a farm house within fifteen miles was
unrepresented. A great many believed
in the vagaries of the old man, and at
tended, not with the hope of seeing him
dead and laid out in the coffin attire that
he had provided for himself, but with a
desire, if he really was dead, to pay him
a tribute of respect,
Some 400 congregated for the funeral,
The roads were lined with wagons
bound for his little old farm house, and
every tree, hitching post aud fence bai
was utilized for the horses. The crowd
soon grew entirely too large to be ac¬
com modated within tlie walls of the two -
story house, and as the visitors roamed
about the place it was discovered that
even a stone tomb had been built among
the rocks by the hands of the old
farmer. He had prepared the tomb
both for himself and for his dogs and
cats. As his friends aud neighbors en
tered the house they naturally looked
for the coffin. They found the coffin
and the pall bearers wearing the black
gloves he had furnished, but the corpse
was missing. Everybody was mystified,
and a search was made. Every nook
and corner iu the old farm house from
cellar to garret was ransacked. No one
had seen him leave the place, and all
were sure that it had been impossible to
spirit away his body, either dead or
alive. At last the dingy old kitchen was
overhauled. Closets were thrown open,
boxes uncovered and drawers pulled out,
but no trace of the missing man could
be found.
“(Look, in the oven," suggi, ted an ol 1
• who had taken an inti « in , the
j might 1/ave crawled
in tnere. ''
The door of the huge oven soon
swung open, and the eccentric old
farmer was discovered in his hiding
place. It was the last place iu the
house to look for a person, either dead
or alive, and but for tho forethought of
the old lady would probably have been
passed by. The old man was pulled out
by his heels aud found to be iu good
health. Then the 400 friends and neigh¬
bors silently returned to their plows
and churns, vowing to let John Sam¬
mons bury himself when be did die. But
this feeling has since died out, and now
the news of the serious accident to tbe
old man has been received with much
regret among all his acquaintances.
IVby the Organ was Locked.
The other day a Rockland household
was made proud and happy by the in¬
troduction of a cabinet organ. The
mother could play a little, and as there
was a “popular collection of music”
included in the purchase, she lost no
time iu getting every note and stop iuto
practice. The organ groaned aud
wheezed and complained with the most
astonishing of music, night and day,
day and night, for a week. Then one
morning there was a knock at the door,
and a little girl from the next house
shrilly said:
“Please, marm, mother wants to
know if you won’t lend her your music
book ?”
This was a surprising request, inas¬
much as the woman next door was
known to bo organless. After gasping
once or twico the amateur organist
asked ?”
“What does she wan’t of it.”
The child hadn’t been loaded for this
question, so she straightforwardly re¬
plied : don’t I
“ I know, ’m sure, only heard
mother tell father that if she had hold
of the book for a day or two mebbe
somebody could get a rest.”
The woman softly shut the door in
the little girl’s face, and went and care¬
fully locked the cabinet organ with the
brass key. ft
Fattening Food for Steers.
The most economical way of fattening
an animal is the quickest way—that is,
by liberal feeding of the most fattening
food up to the point when no more food
cay be digested. When indigestion
occurs then the food is wasted, and
more than that, the food already turned
into flesh is also wasted because the
flesh is lost by the disorder of the
animal Care is to be taken, therefore,
not to overfeed, but to gradually firing
the feeding up to the safe point where
most good is done. One-thousand-two
hundred-pound steers may be fed : Forty
pounds of turnips or mangels daily, with
ten pounds of hay and 12 pounds of
corn, or mixed cornmeal, bran, and
cottonseed meal in equal parts; as much
straw may be given as the animal will
consume, the waste will serve as litter.
Comfortable bedding and warm stables
should be provided. A gain of 3 pounds
a day is the least increase that may be
expected. The manure from cattle so
fed will be quite rich.
THE SILVER MINE.
a STOitr told «v \ coxi>rrTou on
A NEW MEXICAN K. K.
Just Near Enough to an $800)000 I.end to
Miss It.
“Eight or nine years ago.” said a eonj.
ductor on the Atchison & Santa Fe Rj
R., “when this road was opened we people. usetfl
to meet a good many queer thjn
There are queer ones going over thorp
line now. but there wore more of
then. The second or third train I rah
out of Pueblo for the East had an coi]- oik
fellow A aboard VV who took me iuto Ins *•
litititict?. , Ho wero his i • iuur i • long » ****** 3 *
beard was gray and shaggy. When/1
went offered through the train the first time iji©
me his ticket, a through one. ; 1
punched „„ , j the , ticket. 4 - 1 , liu. liy
suaded me to sit down by hi» side. \/Vo
had a long run ahead without stops, afcid
time was hanging rather heavy on any
hands.
“ ‘I made up my mind years ago.Hi, e
said, ‘that I would never go back East
uutil I could go in a chariot, and now
I’m a going, just as a white man ought
to go. I’ve been out iiere twenty yefors
with the Indians, chasing thorn park of
the time and part of the lime they chas¬
ing me. I’ve mined it from one end of
the divide to the I’ve other, found just niore'n skimming
over the surface. fifty
prospects where a man with a little gOlSii> dust
can get rich in a year. I’ve
pocket full of specimens and I’m going
down to my old homo in York Slate to
see if I can’t raise enough funds to com
out here and work some of these.
There’s old man Chadwick—he’s rich;
and Jim Gillett's two boys probal mutt! t be
growed up by this time, a. id y
got the farm; and then there’s my old
man’s relatives over at the corners and
any number of others. I’m just going
to open their eyes to something Why, i|_ this
chariot don’t breRk down. I've
been waiting for this train of cars four or
five years, and it can’t go any too fast to
unit'me. Here’s a piece of silver that I
took from a prospect down in Arizona.
What do you think of it ? Well, strang¬
er, you can hew that, out of the ground
where I got that by the pailfull, and
there’s more of it covered up than tl re
is on the surface.’ ^ .
interested. _
“I began to be I had
heard big stories of silver discoveries off
south and hero was evidence, if the chap
wasn't lying, that ho had discovered the
location of a deposit of fabulous value. I
told him that I had some money myself
—I did have about $4,000 in thoge days,
though l haven’t got it now—and that if
that would do any good, and I could get
a share in the stake, he could have it all.
He seemed greatly pleased. yet,’
“ ‘I’ll not go home just says te,
‘I'll wait awhile. I’ll go down riel r’n
old Chadwick when I do go, and I’ll
sling silver bricks at ali the window iu
town. How far do you run ? I’ll g- t off
with you. ’
“J told him, and he agreed to say
nothing, but to leave the train whe the
new gang came on. Just as we got to
the end of the division I jumjvpd ot the
platform and looked for the dl® man! but
as he did not come out I 1 dt li the
train . yain to call Wd r Wi¬
i. '“i iml thong) le
but I iUm fiiji
Hi i hi ad was rest! /u *
iu one of his ban . ftr
nugget. We removed him tY'fht depot
and I got a sort of a liorBe dftotor there
to oxamiue him, but lie only ss 1 ! that
he must have died of heart disease Be¬
fore we buried him I search ”! pH his
pockets, the linings of his coats an y vos f
and liis old satchel, but I con Ju t dnd a
thing that would throw any 1 fht ojn the
location of his pro-tpects. M 2kJkould I
learn liis exact address at first, but from
some memoranda found in his pockets I
afterward made a guess at it ind came
out right. I discovered that he had a
brother and s ome nephews lb g and to
them I sent the nuggets tint! few other
articles of value which he bad on Lis
person. I got a leave of absent* as soon
as I could and in company with two
or ihree friends I made an attempt
to locate the place where he found the
silver, but his description of if had been
so imperfect that I could not 1 «<1 it. Af¬
ter spending £2,000 in pros; ‘c'r-g with¬
out avail f gave it up. One year after
that silver mines were opened a littlo to
one side of the place I had gone to first,
and, having visited them sii.ee. I am
sure that they were first discovered by
the old man whom I met.”
“Were they rich?” asked the miner.
“Well, yes, to some extent they were.
The men who gobbled them y(*ar tip took
$800,000 out of them the first and
they have not been starving since ihen.”
“That was a pretty hard streak of
hick for the old man, wasn’t it ?” said the
cattleman thoughtfully. looked
The conductor rose up, at his
watch and st*d: “I don’t know ho much
about the old man, for he died a-id did
Dot need any silver; but it is gal ling on
me, for I’m here to feel sore over it every
time I see a silver quarter.”
“TunnK was not a dry eye in tt,o au
dience,” remarked Mr. Blifkins re
furring to the play he had seen the night
before. “No,” added Mrs. Bii, kins,
who had accompanied him, “but 1 no¬
ticed between the acts that a good many
throats seemed to be dry.”
“It says in tbe paper,” observed Mrs.
Grap to her spouse, “that St. John was
hung in Effigy in Vermont the other
night. I’m sorry for the poor man, but
I don’t believe it, ’cause there ain’t no
town of that name on the map. How
them papers do lie !”—Boston Post
I. It ICa.-illy Con*uinpt!o i?
Many a f-asc supposed liver to complaint !jo radical lur. - dn
ease is really one of an ! indi¬
gestion, but, unless that diseased livt-r ••nn be
restored to healthy action, it will so >4 the
lungs with corrupting and matter as Indeed to bring on
their speedy decay, which is scrofula then - have
in consumption, its worst form. Nothing of be t lungs
can mui • oap
ily calculated to nip this danger Medical in thi bud
than is Dr. Pierce's “Golden Dis
covery.” By druggi-ts.
Sweet is the breath of praise given prink by those
whose own high merit claims the they
give.
“Kougb on Itch.”
ringworm, “Lough on Itch” cures humor frosted a, eruptions, feet, hii
tetter, bait rheum, «
bkins.
__
A California man raised 82,000 worth of I >ney
last year from thirty-nine hives of bees.
To _ , break up colds, , . fevers ftnd , Innai , .... . a.
tory attacks, use Dr. Pierce’s Coiapouuh i *
tract of Bmart-Weed.
Massachusetts was the first of the thirteen
original colonies to introduce slavery and Geor¬
gia was the last.
Mensman’s Peptonized beef tonic, the only
preparation of beet containing it a entire nutri¬
tious properties. It con turns blood-making
force generating and life-sustaining properties;
invaluable for indigestion, dyspepsia, nervous
prostration, and ail forms conditions, of general whether debility;
a iso. in all enfeebled the
n M\Ut of exhaustion, nervous prostration, over
work pulmonary or acute disease, particularly (’.-tsweii, if Hazard resulting
from Proprietors, complaints, Sold druggists. V
Co., New York. by
k Mormon centenarian who died lately, left
21b a, , descendants. , i
1 11 " s ‘ ,r *’
t 1 !inVl , ‘ boon troubled with ctthuThtil dot ness
for . seven or eight years with a roaring noise in
my head. I bought medicine in IB states but
nothing Tv’s helped me till I procured days l a could bottle hear of
Cream Balm. In lour
■* jell as ever I am cuivd of the Catarrh as
veil. I consider made.*— lavs Cream halm the best
ttedicinc ever Gabkett Widkick, Has
tings, N. V.
Education begins the gentleman, but reading,
^ood company and education must finish him.
OurboTup*.
This magic balm, which is in truth
Petroleum sweet and clean;
It gives to age the charm of youth,
The matchless Carboline.
An exchange says that it makes a woman sick
to keep a secret. When lias this been proven ?
Tlic Old <3rn ml mother,
When called to the bedside of the littlo one
horror suffering with that night llend to children and
to parents, citour, the old grandmother
used to send for mullein and make a tea and at
once relieve it—made into a tea now and com¬
bined with sweet gum it presents in Taylor's
Cherokee Remedy of Sweet Gum and Mullein
a Whooping pleasant and effective cure for Croup,
Sold by oil Cough, Colds and Consumption.
druggists at 25c and $1.00 a bottle.
‘‘My bow is all unstrung,” warbles a fair
poetess. Wonder if her beau had been on a
racket.
If Ufe Preserver*
Health you Rtmeuer.” arc losing your * Goes grip direct on life, try “Wells'
to weak spots.
illustrated Kentucky police has a law prohibiting within the borders. sale of
literature its
Youiift Men l—Read This.
The Voltaic Belt Co., of Marshall, Mich.,
offer to send their celebrated Electro-Voltaic
Belt and other Electric Appliances on trial
for thirty days, to men (young or old) afflicted
with nervous debility, loss of vitality and man¬
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diseases. Complete restoration to health, vigor
ami manhood gua anteed. No rink is incurred
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mice for illustrated pamphlet free.
It* a man have love in his heart, he may talk
in broken language, but it will be eloquence to
those who listen.
Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound is
to be had at the nearest drug store for a dol¬
lar. It in not claimed that this remedy will
cure every disease under the sun, but that it
does all that it claims to do, thousands of good
women know and declare.
The camel is tho only bird that wo yearn to
hear after listening to a man learning to play
the violin.
“Itoutfli on Toothache.”
Instant relief for Neuralgia, Toothache. Toothache, A Face- 25c.
ache. Ask for ‘Hough on XG
Man is made out of tho dust of the earth, and
some of them are terras all their lives.
A nriiBKl t’s Htory.
Mr. Isaac (J. Chapman, drnggi.t, Nowbttrg,
M. 'r.. writ s us : “ I havo for the p t -< ton
* oars sold several gross of Dr. \Yin. Hall’s
galapn fovtiy; ^>y l.tiugs. /? T can s-tv ’ * it what
' ,anr "’ t <** hi •» e medi^
’Sever - heard a cutnotner speak i -- .r but to
pruise its virtues ifn tho li)-t manner. I
havo recommended it hi a" great many cases
of whoo] ing cough, witli the liappicst otTocts.
1 have used it in my own family for many
years ; in fact, always havo a bottle in the
medir ine closet.”
“I must wliako off tliin bad habit,” said a
tramp, an lie gazed at liis tattered coat.
ftiiNiiif*M Mon!
Wearied from tho labors of the dav, on going
home find that they cannot have the deniivd
and necessary rest, for tho little darling in still
Buffering, and slowly and pitifully its wasting from
away by the drainage upon they system would think
the effects of teething. If
to use I)r. Niggers 1 Huckleberry REMEDY, Cordial, sleep tho
GliEAT HOUTJIEKN loss of
and bowel complaints would bo unknown in
that home. For sale by all druggists at GU
cents a bottle.
Tlie ice man may not be much of a skater,
but he is able to make fancy figures on ice.
Prefly W omen.
Ladies who would retain fresliness and vivac¬
ity. Don’t fail to try “Wells' Health Kenewer/’
Remembering the poor is well enough; but it
is much better to give them something.
* * * * Cancer of th6 lower bowel some¬
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piles. By our improved speedily methods, and without
knife, laustic or salve, we perma
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references and terms, two letter stamps.
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Main street, Buffalo,
“It is not a coaid day when I get left,” said
the dealer in anthracite.
Important.
When you visit or leave New York city, save b
expreswAKc and carriage hire, and stop at the Gra nd
Union I£'»tei, opposite Grand Central depot.
600 elegant rooms, fitted up at a cost of o mn million
dollars, -tl and upward p*r day. European iu. )l»n. . EJe
vator. Restaurant elevated supplied railroads with to the all best, depots, ltornu iimilic.s cars,
stages and Grand r Union
car* live better for less money at the
Hotel than at. any other fi st-class hotel in the city.
CATARRH EI.Y'S
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Catises no Pa n.
(lives Relief at
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Thorough Treat
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bse usa. t monf -nill Cure.
HAY-FEVER dire It a Trial.
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for circular, barnpia by w cts.
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96 Fulton Stree t, N ew York*
A A mm R. U. AWARE
pdm THAT
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Marine a rrd tin toy; that DorlUard’l
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Mription ol» oelebntted physic, m. . nil is warranted to
oonttim no itwj . doolittle smith
smith, k Boston. 13
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The February CENTURY
( First Edition , 1 So poo)
CONTAINS
t. GEM. GRANT’S
m
First War Paper,
DESCRIBING
THE BATTLE OF
-3 SHILOH
With many personal remi¬
ALSO niscences. Profusely illustrated.
THE CONFEDERATE SIDE
Told by the son of Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston
and a Confederate Stall-officer.
This is the brilliantly illustrated
MIDWINTER NUMBER,
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“ROYALTY ON THE MISSISSIPPI,”
DY
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J. WORTH, ST. LoUib, M(J., or CHICAGO. ILL.
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AVERY’S BLOOD DISINFECTANT
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izont ot Nf\* York who have 1)01 1 on cu red can b ; had atlh«‘company’s office. Hold by UriiyrifiHtM 6u cents a hottl*.
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md Mm
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cut*, whhh %v ecu n not cnanieral c here. AJI the above pycm:/,iH will ho a warded in ix full e line
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un'll tin! inoni’y and immediate I. |ni!a over. Inquiry Hew! will !!»: be made. Mimt «./ If mi'i loan .1 .... a,iniiu.»l lonmtn . n»fcl-uu iub
reference,!), references no to *:ii)^r lo the above nam«d paper. c»
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900 GOLD WITCHES FREE I yi got You this * ran
WHO VV Ibl, SEMI THE Ql U KKST V
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send will among be entitled receipt good for and for
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It your letter Js among the first 9fib received you will also be entitled to
a beautiful gold watch. The watch Is one thlrO larger than the picture. If
We will send a printed list of the awards, free, end all present# wiil be r tend yon at
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Mn»-efi I ft, I HMft. We liave 5V<0 subscribers a/ready, and
only require 49.600 more to have the desired number. Our
old patrons and subscribers, whom we nomher by thou
MunU-t. should this go to work and at once and offer, help us increase m
our list by K‘Hud generous m
DULY 50 CENTS %£l T SirSX% f*r coript 6 months good tor on
one present. Aa to onr r<*llublllly, we refer to
»ny bank ftr Mercantile Agency, Remember im
these are presents to our subscriber*, f?ly* n to them at) 90 - m
lutclyfrec. This In a chance of a lifetime, the true pa lh-
6wy to your future fortune. Every subscriber get s
prize. A fortune nury be p./urt It. if you will but stretch
forth your hand tor reef re it. co#i* only 50 cents to try
—is it possible you tolllletitpassf Postage stamps taken ____
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A4dreu*ILLINOIS AGRICULTURIST, (A) (02 LoSallo Gt., Chicago, III.
■massm
Woman’s Suffering and Relief.
Those languid, tiresome sensations, causing
roil to feel scarcely able to beon your feet;
that constant drain that is taking from your
system all its former elasticity, driving continual the
bloom from your cheeks; that rendering
strain upon your vital forces, you
irritable and fretful, can easily tie removed
by the use of that marvelnm obstructions remedy,Hop Bit
tors. Irregularities 1 and wlnie the of special your
system, are relieve at once,
auseof periodical pain are much permanently and re
moved. Nona receive so henelit,
none are so profoundly grateful and show such
a n interest in recommending Hop Bitters aa
women.
A Postal Card Story.
I was alToctetl with kidney and urinary
trouble—
After “For twelve trying years!” all the doctors and patent
medicines 1 could hear of, 1 ustxl two bottles
of "Bitters;” Hop
Ami 1 am perfectly cured. I keep it
“All tno time!” respectfully, B. F. Booth,
Saulsbury, Tenn.— May 4, tssd.
Bradford, Pa.. May 8, 1875.
It has cured me of several diseases, such as
nervousness, sickness at the stomach, monthly
troubles, etc. I have not seen a sick day in a
year, since I took Hop Bitters. All my neigh¬
bors use them. Mas. Fannie Green.
$3,0(10 Lost.
“A tour to Europe that cost me $3,000,
done me less good cured than one bottle of Hop
Bitters; they also my wife of fifteen
dyspepSL years’ nervous .” weakness, sleeplessness and
R. M., Auburn. N. Y.
So Bi.oomi.ngviu.k. O., May 1, ’79,
Sirs— 1 lmvo been suffering ten years, and I
tried your Hop Bitters, and it done me more
good than a)) the doctors Mbs. S. S. Boone.
Baby Saved.
We are so thankful to say that our nursing
baby was permanently cured of a dangerous
and protracted constipation the Hop and irregularity
of the bowels by use of Bit ters by its
mother, which at the same time restored her
to perfect health and Parents, strength.
—Tho Rochester, N. Y.
Hops pyNone tho genuine white label. without Shun a bunch all tho of greets vile,
on
poisonous stuff with "Hop” or “Hops” in their
name.__
(m ycitiaMe LYDIA V. miUlAri’S dpit
0M i ia a PCcrnvE cuss
Por Fcninlo Complaints nnd
r Wcaknoicscs ho common to
< our best fauialo rojuilatlon
IfcwiU euro entirely the worst form of Female Coro
plaints, all Ovarian troubles,Inflammation and Ulcer**
tion, Fsllinp: WoalincHB, and Displacements, muiicularly ami tho adapted consequent to tho
c >j»inal Aiiu id
,
Change t»f Life.
It will dissolve an ", expel fumors from the uterus in nn
oorly Uumora utiure there of development. Tito speedily tendency by to caucerous
is checked very its use.
It removes faintness, flatulency, destroys all craving
or stimulants, and relieves weakness of tho stomach,
t- euros Bloating, Headaches, Nervous l'rostrati< on.
General tion. That Debility, tecllngof Sleeplessness, »i«*aring down, peprarsioa causing and pain, Indiges¬ weight
and backache, is always peniianmit/y cured by its use.
It will ut all times and Under all circumstances act iri,
harmony with the laws that, govern the FomtU* sjutem .
For tho ouro of KJdner Complaints of either Her, this
Compound 1» linuurpaKseu. Pricefl.oo. Six oottlcsf ,r^5,00.
N( family uhould be without LYDIA E. PJNKUAM'S
TJVEH PILLS. They euro constipation, biliousness and
torpidity of the liver. 85 cent* a box at ali dmgglati.
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Slinttim. Elmira. N. Y. Itor 1800.
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yoar, Ncnpturo oanln,
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u Kninjil*’ Book, I’loraiiirn Lint. Prico I <int. Rant
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