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AT THE DOOR.
I thought myself indued Meore—
So fs*t the door, eo firm the lock—
Bat, lo I he toddling oomes to lore
My parent ear 'Yith timorous knock.
My heart were stone could it withstand
The sweetness of my baby’s plea—
That Umorons, baby knocking and
•Tleaso let mo in—It’s only mo.”
I threw aside th’unflnlshcd book,
Regardless of its tempting charms,
And opening wide tho door, I took
My laughing darling in my arms.
Who knows but in Eternity,
I, like a trasut child, shall 'wait
The glories of a life to be,
Beyond tho Heavenly Father's gate 7
And will that Heavenly Father heed
The truant's supplicating cry,
As at the outer door I plead
"Us I. oh. Father 1 only I" ?
IN A MOMENT OF PIQUE.
"You're too good n fellow to bo trifled
With, Allan,” said Charley Leonard in a
tone of measured oonfidenoe. "I hate
to see a woman make a fool of you, and
Nora Lindsey—”
"■What makes you think she’s making
• fool of me ?” Allan asked, in a quiet
way that quite ooncealed the depth of
his feelings.
"My dear boy, you must look at theso
things in a oommon-senso light. Mum
Lindsey is an heiress—the richest girl in
Cambridge; yon nro—”
"What?”
"Well, you know very well. Allan,
that, from a worldly point of view, you
are poor, like myself I”
"I have a few thousand, Charley; and
then, there’s my profession. I oottld
■upport a wife comfortably on my in
come, I have enouJpr to make a woman
happv, if she lovedrtne.”
"Yes, if—if—I That’s just it I” cried
Charley, springing up and pacing tho
room with restlcfls stride. "Women
don’t love nowadays—not with their
hearts, at least. It is all a fancy 1”
Allan looked up, half quizzically.
"Ah, I thought there was something
behind all this cynicism,” he said. "You
with the divine Arc
your Dulclnea are
oviii
vino
have been play
again. You am
‘out’ 1"
"Don’t joke about it, Al, for heaven’s
sake 1 It’s a home thrust thiB time.
Three weeks ago 1 thought my happi
ness was assured. The woman I lovod
had promised to marry me, and now, for
the merest trifle, she lias cast mo aside.
No wonder I have no faith in women or
their professions.”
"I’m sorry to hear it, Charley--in
deed I am—and I hope it may prove
nnly a lovers’ quarrel. But yon must
not expect me to share your doubts. I
will not deny it; I love Nora Lindsey
with my whole soul, and 1 intend to ask
her to be
deepening pallor of her face, when
Charley Leonard’s namo was mentioned.
“By the wav, Miss Blanche," ho
added, carelessly, “let ns take a look in
at the Charity, if you aro not too
tired.”
She was too tired—worn out in soul
and body—but hero was a chance to hide
her aching heart bohind the mask of |
gavety.
Blanolie sank down into a chair, and
covered her face with her hands.
At the same moment Obnrloy Leonard
confronted her with n white and desper
ate face.
“Toll him tho truth beforo it is too
late 1” lie said honrsely. “You lovome,
Blanche. You belong to mo 1”
“Yes,” she gasped, flinging herself
’ I* ipon his breast, and bursting into tears.
•I will go—for a little while,” sho ns- j “Oh, Chnrley, Charley 1 Why did you
sented.
And Allan went for a carriago, while
sho arrayed herself in a brilliant ball
costume.
When sho camo downstairs again, n
robe of shimmering white satin, em-
broidored with forget-me-nots, trailed
after her.
Her eyes shone with an unusual brill
iancy; her clicekB were flushed, and a
cloud of lace cnvoloped her blonde
hair.
"Sho is very lovely to look upon,”
murmured Allan Westloek; “but—”
The imago of Nora Lindsey’s dark be
witching fnce, framed in a muss of glossy
rnven hair, her rod lips and dazzling
smile, her full smooth throat of creamy
olive, clasped by diamonds scarcely
brighter than horeyes—it rose up before
him
But ho shut his teeth and tried to
banish even her name from his memory.
The night worn on.
Blanolie Merle’s “little while” grew
longer, and when, toward tho dawn of
tho day, sho rode home, pale, wenryand
heartsick, sho was Allan Westiock’s
promised wife.
Tho engagement was announced in
duo form the following week. Society
was taken by surprise, but tho wedding
day was fixed, and there could be no
mistako about it.
take me at my word ? Why did you go
away?”
A look of unspeakable relief camo
over Allan’s face.
"Thank God it is not too late 1” ho
snid fervently. “Blanche, you nre free.
Forgive me, but I have never loved you.
I—ah—Miss Lindsey, nro yon ill?"
Tho slight gracoful figure swayed for
ward, and fell fninting into his arms.
“Como away 1” Charley whispered;
and Allan was left alone with that lovely
white face resting upon his breast.
Her delicate eyelids unclosed in a mo-
ment and nho struggled to support her
self,
“Bit down,” he said, drawing her info
a chair, "and tell mo once for all did
you mean what you said in this letter V”
Then he gave her tho sheet to road.
“There is some mistake,” sho faltered.
"I wrote to you and to Blanche on tho
same afternoon; I sent you a part of her
letter, and her pari of yours; but indeed
I did not say this—that—that Oh,
(hero was something left out 1 I nm
sure thoio was—something on the other
sheet. I forgot—”
Allan caught her hand in his.
"Nora,” ho said in deop thrilling
tones, “tho loss of you nearly killed mo,
for I worship you with my whole soul !
There hns been some mistake; but one
of Miss
Tho weeks dragged on, and cnrdscamo thing you did say. Ion said you would
not marry a man you dal not love. Dar
ling, may I—daro I hope you will marry
mo ?”
lie gathered her into liis arms ns ho
spoke, and hor lips were so close he
could easily hear tho halt-whispered
my wife.
"Well, I wtaivyon snooees. Al. For
give me for meddling. I only—’’
The door opened and a rough old fel
low esmo lumbering in—one of Allan’s
eliento.
Charley picked up his hat and left,
with the brief remark:
"I will see yon later.”
It was while Allan was engaged with
this olient that tho poetman came in and
threw down npop his desk a thick en
velope, with a graceful superscription
that contracted. strongly with tho care
less, dashing style of his business cor
respondence.
Allan’s heart bounded.
His patience hardly lasted till he was
alone and could open the letter.
It was rather longor than Miss Lind
sey’s favors uruUy were—two full
sheets, beginning; "My dear Mr. West-
look,” and ending, "Your friend, al
ways—Nora Lindsey.”
"Your letter was really a favor,” she
■aid on the first page. "Seaton is a
pretty plaoe, bnt horribly dull in winter.
I shall be so glsd to get back to Cam
bridge 1 It was very kind of yon to ask
me to go and see Bernhardt next Wed
nesday. It will give me great pleasuro
to do BO."
Then the letter rambled on in a pleas
ant way till the bottom of the fourth
page, when there was a complete break.
The second sheet did not go with the
first at all Neither the words nor the
ideas were in an;
Allan tnrned
way connected,
over and over in
bewilderment, and finally held it per
fectly still, when these linee stared him
straight in the face :
"I am only flirting with Mr. Westloek,
and leadinguMaa on lor the sake of
amusement. Don’t distress yourself, my
dear Blanche. I know what is best for
my own happiness. I shell never marry
a man whotg l do not love,”
The paper trembled in Allan’s hands,
* " rasp«3 for
and be i
I lor breath.
heawfna I” he cried hoarsely.
i this i
hand and sank
pale, distorted
1 be gi
’Good
"What does this mean ?”
Slowly it 4«wned upon him that, by
aome mistake, a part of another letter,
not intended for his eyes, had been in-
eloeed in the envelope that bore his ad
dress. But what did it reveal to him ?
Allan crashed the fatal sheet in his
down in a chair with
countenance.
It was houm bMore he conld command
himself; baffonoe he mined the mas
tery, he dur from his pocket two
theatre tiokl|s pad, taking up a sheet of
elegant note^aper, wrote ns follows :
“Mr Dkab Miss Lindsey : Circum-
stanoes compel me to recall my in vita
tion for Wednesday next. I inclose yon
the ticketed Yon have so many attend
ants that I am sure yon will not want for
an esoort. Poping yon will enjoy the
performance, I am, yours truly,
“AiiLAN Westlook.”
That waa all I
"She shall never know by word or act
of mine,” he said as he drojiped this note
in the boxon^his way home to supper.
"That dream is over, and my happiness
but she shall not
hide my suffering from
when society was about
» touch of dissipation,
Ok presented himself in
faaltlees in the parlor of a pretty
np town
"How
home 1”
the alend
girl, in
surah,
to yoorse
Bland
laugh,
not wholly deaden the ring of one sad
note. ■ .
"It is dissipati.
swered,
diamond
I am to find you at
nrmured, as he bent over
kite hand of a tall graceful
inisite drees of pale blue
at have yon been doing
Blanche? Yon are not
replied with a light
indifference could
dissipation, I suppose I” she an-
glaneing haif-curiously into a
l mimr that hung just opposite
in a plush frame. "I have been to three
balls this w&St. 1 * I was going to another
to-night—the .Charity ball, you know—
but—” --
“Why, Fd forgotten all about it I This
is the nighc. Charley Leonard gave mo
a oouple of tickets. He’s one of the
managers tfd* year.”
Man as he was, and not at all Inter
ested in Mias Merle, Allan failed to note
the qnick spasmodic twitching of her
month, the dropping of her eyelids, and
out finally for the marriage
Meric and Mr. Westloek.
Two weeks beforo the wedding,
Charley Leonard Hat in his office,resting
his grave white face in his hands, when
tho door opened to admit a lady, heavily
veiled.
"You aro Mr. TLeonard ?” she queried
somowlmt nervously, bnt in a voico that
awakened echoes in liis memory; “you
aro a friend of—of—Mr, Westiock’s, I
believe ?"
T used to count myself so,” Charley
answered with singular bitterness; “but
“Then you will oblige me," she went
on hastily. “I am a friend of Mr. West-
lock’s, too, and in view of his approach
ing marriage, I wish to mnko p settle
ment in his favor. But, for reasons of
my own, I do not wish him to know to
whom ho is indebted. Hero nro two
thousand pound bonds, which ”
"Two thousand pounds 1” Charley
cried. “Aro you in earnest, madame?”
“Here aro tho bonds,” sho said rather
peremptorily, as sho stretched out one
little ungloved hand and laid tho packet
on the tnblo.
As sho did so Chnrley enught tho
flash of a magnificent rose-diamond, tho
owner of which was quito woll known to
him.
"Miss Lindsey I" ho cried. "Is It
possible ?”
Blio drew back with a start, but
straightened np proudly tho noxt mo
ment, and threw back her veil.
"Yes, it is I,” sho said with queenly
dignity. “ITavo I not tho right to give
him this money if I wish ?”
“Bnt, Miss Lindsey, consider. ITavo
yon tin ught ”
“Thought I” she burst forth passion
ately. “Have I thought of anything
else, night or day, for weeks pnst ? Do
as I ask you. Tho mnnoy is for Allnn.
Give it to him, but swenr to mo that you
will not tell him it was I who ’’
“Do not oxcito yourself so, Miss
Lindsey. You nro ill, you ”
“Promise mo von will not tell him I”
she cried frantically.
“No, no; certainly not."
Her passion subdued in a moment.
“There is only one thing moro I hnvo
to ask of yon,” she said abruptly. “For
get this visit. Let it bo ns though it
nover had been.”
“If you wish it,” Chnrley answered.
And lie had baroly uttered the words
ere sho was gone.
On the table lay tho pnokot of bonds.
"I wns wrong,” ho muttered. "Sho
did love him after all. It was Allan who
was trifling with her."
That evening, for tho first timo in
months, he called upon Allnn.
"Whero hnvo you been hiding your
self?" his friend oried, holding out a
hand wliioh Charley ignored entirely,
"I cannot shake hands with you,
Allan,” he said, abruptly, "till I nm
sure yon are not tho knave I have been
led to suppose yon are. ”
"How ?”
"Why did you lie to me about Miss
Lindsey ? Yon told mo you meant to
ask her to be your wife.”
A change came over Allan’s face, and
for a moment ho looked at his friend
Badly.
"Charley," he said, "I wouldn’t say
this to anyone but you. I nm wrotelicd.
I love Norn Lindsey witlimy whole soul,
but I have found out that sho is utterly
unworthy of me. You told me so, but
at first—”
"I was blind, insane, irresponsible !”
Charley cried. "Bho is the nohlest
woman I know. You love her and sho
loves you, Allan. I know it."
“Impossible I”
“I tell yon it is true.”
"Yon are beside yourself, Charley.
And if it were true, what then ? Two
days hence I shall marry Miss Merle.”
"No, you will not 1” Charley oried,
excitedly. "You shall not wreck the
happiness of four lives at once ! There
is yet time, Allan. Retreat! You must
—you Bhall! Blanche Merle was to
have been my wife—not yours I It is I
whom she loves—not you 1”
“Yon, Charley? Was it she who—”
“Yes, it was she ! How dared yon at
tempt to steal her from mo ?”
Allan’s face was very white.
“Why did you not tell mo before?”
he cried. “Do not stand there railing
at me 1 I will go to Blanche at once I”
“Not without mo 1”
“You may como.”
They both presented themselves at
Miss Merle’s an hour later, but Allau
assert to see ner aione, ana was snown
upstairs to the sitting-room.
As he drew aside the heavy portiere,
he started back, for in the centro of the
room stood Miss Lindsey.
“Good-bye, Blanche,” she was saying.
“I shall not be at the wedding, bnt I
wish you every joy.”
“Stay, Miss Lindsey 1” Allan oried
out. “I have something to say to
you!’’
“Mr. Westloek I ” she stammered,
while every vestige of color forsook her
lovely face, and Blanche stood by in
mute surprise.
“Miss Merle,” Allan went on abrupt
ly, “I have known ever sinco you prom
ised to be my wife that I had no hold
whatever upon your heart. To-day I
have heard what leads me to suppose
that you entered into your engagement
w»th mo in a moment of pique. Is it
true?”
“Yes 1
“Which means?” ho asked tenderly.
“That I love you very much."
Tho last ray of doubt was clenrod
away when Blaneho brought her letter
to patch out what she called tho “epis
tolary puzzle.”
"You know mo to well to think that I
am only flirting with Mr. Westloek,”
etc., was tho way tho lottor read then,
and Allau was wholly satisfied.—Some
thing to Read.
MONSTER ICEBERGS.
Tlioy Ar«ni» flint T
SrnMMi In flip
iin Itrru
KphIoiin
P'>om tho New York TTornld.]
Tho gigantic Arctic, icebergs at St.
Johns, N. F., which aro blockading that
lin’bor, nro largo enough to rival tho
celebrated Antarctic bergs. Onoof theso
ice islands forecloses to the eye all ingress
and egress of tho port; another, seen
from ttio bloekiiouHo over tho harbor of
St. Johns, was estimated to bo seven
miles long, and a third was ascertained,
by cross bearings ami trigonometrical
survey, to bo nine miles long and a
quarter of a mile wide. Either of these
floating glacier fragments rivals in nren
tho mammoth historic berg reported by
Bir John Ross in his first Arotio voy-
ngo, which was loss than threo miles
long and two broad. It is very noto-
worthv that the immense glacial masses , , friond bnt he (loo8 not fioom to
now observed oil St. Johns, instead of 1 , , ,
WIDOW TOM THUMB.
A Little One Wlio Goes Into Society nnd Ex.
peels to Grow 111k.
Speaking of widows, says a lottor
writer, I camo across Mrs. Tom Thumb
tho other day in the Elevated Railroad
car. She had to make considerable of a
jump to scat herself, and I observed that
her companion mado no offer of assist
ance. This wns in accord with the
Indy’s well understood desire. You may
hnvo happened to find out that old j
men don’t like to bo helped eu with their
overcoats, because it implies n decrepti-
tude which they dislike to acknowledge,
oven to themselves. Woll, Mrs. Tom
Thumb hns that sort of feeling with ref
erence to nny real or implied notico of
sizo. Sho sat there in grant dignity,
but with hor feet dangling far above
tho floor.
Tho little Widow Thumb is cnsunlly n
resident of New York, and a welcome
visitor in a considerable number of rnthor
wealthy nnd fashionable families. She
is now a Indy so mature nnd dignified,
notwithstanding her dimunitivo size,
that nobody in the way of social inter
course dares, or is much incliued to treat
tier as a human trifle. To sco her in tho
midst of a round of calls is to get the
impression al first sight that your eyes
have somehow become telescopic in
versely, so exactly is she n miniature of
tho conventional dames of ceremonious
society. She dresses for an afternoon of
formal visiting, in a toilet of semi-
mourning, suitable in stylo for a quiet
woman of forty-five—which ngo she ac
knowledges—and orders from n livery
stable one of those coupes that, as to
liveried driver and general appearance,
aro scarcely distinguishable from privnto
equipngoH. Provided with n visiting
list and easily commanding an air of
well-bred balance, sho lnoks only in
stature to lie tho ideal of a millionaire’s
wife. Of eouvso she attracts staring at
tention whenever she nlightn; but her
manner of silent reproof is usually ef
fective ns a cure for impudence, and she
is ablo to go about with far less nnnoy-
nneo than might lie supposed. Sho iH
nowabout three feet and a half in height,
or a foot more than when she was first
put on exhibition by Barnnm, audit,was
only within n few years that nho stopped
growing.
“It would not surprise mo,” she lately
said, “if I should take to growing again
at nny time. My case is one of retarded
development, you know, nnd I may
catch up with the rest of yon. The ma
jority of tho dwarfs exhibited aro really
children, phenomenally small, bnt by no
menus the adult midgets they aro repre
sented to bo; and, consequently, they
grow out of tho profession. That has
been tho case with many a ‘frenk,’ ns
the showmen call them.”
The pertinence of the fnir, fat nnd
forty-inch widow ns a topio is the
fact that she Iuih a suitor for her hand.
Tho account current in her circle of ac
quaintance says that John Sponeor
Coyne, a mine operator, who came East
ward a year ngo, with a eomfortnble for
tune, began to seriously woo her soon
after making her acquaintance in New
York city, lie is n handsome man of
no moro than forty, with cultured tnsto,
good mornls, and weighs about one hun
dred pounds, his staturo being limited
to an inch or so moro than fivo foot.
I That ho is deeply in love with Mrs.
Thumb is not doubted by nny of their
A PnrLADKnrniA man who went West
a few weeks ngo to seek his fortune hns
returned. The first week out ho en
countered n cyclone, the second week
ho wns sliot at twice, and the third
week a cross-eyed woman insisted on
making lovo to him. Ho says ho conld
hnvo stood the first two, hut tho third
was too much.
“Student” wants to know how petri
faction is caused. Woll, when you ring
tho bell Sunday night, nnd “her” father
appears nt the door instead of “her,"
you will understand the causes that
petrify tho human framo better thou wo
can explain them to you.
being conspicuous for their height, nro
of tho “tabular” or Antnrctio typo. At
this season ieoborgH off Newfoundland
are becoming very fragile, so that prob
ably before reaching tho latitude of St.
Johns these bergs woro much larger
than they now appear.
Tho dislortguient, of Riioh onormousice
mnKsoH in the high latitudes argues tho
prevalence in West Greenland during
this season of exceptionally low barom
eter, grant humidity nnd comparatively
mild temperature, and augurs rather fa
vorably for tho success of tho Thetis,
Roar and Alert in tlioir presold attempt
to penetrate Smith’s Sound. The first
effect of an unusually warm nnd wet
spring on tho glacier fringed const of
West Greenland would he a profuse dis
charge of ieo into the nnrrow marine
channels. While this would temporarily
delay the Arotio hound vessels, ns tho
summer wears on the probability iB that
these channels will disgorge tlioir ice
drifts, nnd ho less difficult of navigation
than they generally aro in August and
September.
Meantime tho apponranoo of theso
huge bergs bearing down on tho highways
of Atlnntio commerce should ho a warn
ing to navigators that the ice season of
1884, which began at an unusually early
date, Is by no means over. These phe
nomenal drifts are not alone, hut most
probably form the advance of an army
of bergs wliioh will requiro several
weeks to complete their ocean journey
from frigid to temperate climes. One
effect they will have will he the increase
of fog on the Banks in the tracks of
steamers which venturo on the northerly
passage to Europe, Tho avoidance of
tbiH passage by European steamers is
now, more than at nny period this sea
son, imperatively demanded.
An Era of Fast Life.
have mado much progress toward cap
turing tho estimable dwarf. It is said
to ho her firm intention not to marry
again,
A Lawyer’s Courage,
A man fn a train was heard to groan
so frightfully that the passengers took
pity ou him'and one of them gave him a
drink out of a whisky flask. “Do you
feel hotter?” nsked tho giver. “I do,”
said ho who had groaned. “What ailed
you?” “Ailed mo?” "Yes; what made
you groan so?” “Groan 1 Great land
of freedom, I was singing.”
Witen was Mrs. Nonli like a county
in Virginia ?—When sho wns rocking
Ham.
ITn who would arrive nt fairyland must
faco phantoms.
Tira first fly of the season came gavlv
Into tho sanctum on Monday last and at
onco made for his old playgronnd-o,,
bald head. We bad flattered ourself
that our bair wns coming in ag a i u i ‘
winter, but before the fly had finished
his first hornpipe we decided that the
new hair was a vnin delusion. —/a,—*
villc Argus. m '
If had temper woro a fever thoro
wouldn’t bo hospitals enough to hold us
all.
The honrso langh indicates brntnlitv
of character. •'
FOR CURING CHILLS AND FEVER
AND
Removing the Distressing Effects of Malaria,
AYER’S AGUE CURE
HAS BEEN FOUND SO
NEARLY INFALLIBLE,
THAT
We Authorize Dealers to Return the Money,
If the rocdicino is taken according to directions, without benefiting tho patient
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Bold by all Druggists. Tric e fl, six bottles for $5.
A New York correspondent of the
Philadelphia Press, says: The yonng
men nbout town report that there is ob
servable in the glittering section of New
York society a feature new to the metro
politan world of fashion. They report
thnt there is a disposition toward fast
ness among the fairer half that did not
exist a very few years ago. It is not j young bloods of the neighborhood never
A well-known Now Yorker, speaking
of tho late Charles O’Oouor, said :
“Ho was a mnn of very eccentric dis
position nnd peculiar in everything he
did, He lived nearly thirteen miles out
of the city, and, being troubled greatly
by dyspepsia, ho decided to walk to anil
from his office. This ho did daily, rain,
or shine, in nil weather, covering tho
round distance of twonty-fivo odd miles
in good pedestrian style. His neigh
bors, who were mostly well-to-do peo
ple) knew this, and some of the younger
men, knowing that ho walked homo oven
in dark winter nights, decided to put his
oourngo to the test. They arranged a
plan accordingly, and hired a stout-built
lnhoriug man to net tho part of n high
wayman. Tho fellow was dressed in a
greatcoat, with a big slouch hat and
lingo false whiskers. Ho was armed
with a largo old-fashioned pistol—
empty, of course.
“The night on which the precious
rnscals decided to scare tho testy old
lawyor was a wild and stormy ouo
in midwinter. Tho ground wsh white
with snow, whioh had been falling con
stantly for hours. The party was posted
at a convenient spot whero they oould
see all that occurred while invisible
themselves. At a lonely spot on the
road the make-believe footpad jumped
out from behind n fenoo nnd faced the
little lawyer. ‘Your money or your
life !’ he sang ont lustily, presenting his
pistol full in O’Conor’s face. Tho lawyer
stepped bnck, but didu’t blanch a bit.
lie set his teeth firmly and hissed
through them:
• “ ‘I haven’t got any money, and if I
hnd, I wouldn’t give you a confounded
cent. As for my life, it isn’t worth much
to anybody.’
“The fellow was nonplussed. Ho had
expected resistance, but here was a
brave man who, ali alone and unarmed
as he was, defied him. no lowered liis
pistol, gathered bis greatcoat about him
ami took to his heels. After that the
A Fir,try Oitt.—The Rov. R. A. Hol
land, pastor of tho wealthiest congrega
tion in Now Orleans, latoly drow a fear
ful pioturo of tho filth of thnt city. Now
Orloans is peculiar ns regards her streots.
Tho drainage is entirely on tho surface
and all the foulness is exposed to view.
The public is thoroughly nroused nnd a
united effort will he mado to clean np.
A Danduiiy mnn recently went off to
trade a horse which did not nnswor his
purpose, lie returned with another
horse, 830 of money in his poekots, ten
bushels of potatoes, ten pounds of hut-
tor, six dozen eggs nnd a Wnterbury
watch,—Hartford Times.
OnT or tho four million eggs a codfish
has been known to spawn in n year only
nbout ono hundred survivo. This must
bo very discouraging to tho oodflsh. It
reminds ono of legislative promisee nnd
per form nr. cos.—Ter a a Siftings.
Your poor weavidi wife losing sleep night »f-
tcr night miming tho little one duffering from
that night fiend to children A horror to parents,
rnonr, should have a bottle of Taylor’s Clirrokeo
Remedy of Bwont Gnm & Mullein, an nmlonhti d
Group preventive, and cure for Cough, Colils,
Whooping Cough, Conmniption, and all lung
and bronchial troubles. Trice 2ficts aud $1.00.
Thi« with Dr. Diggers’ Southern Remedy, an
equally efficacious remedy forCramp-Colio, 1)1-
airlnpa, Dvientery, and tldldron Buffering
from the effects of toothing preienti a little
Medicisf. Chest no household should be with
out, for tiro Bpeedy relief of sudden aud dan-
geroui attacks of the lung* and Ixrwels. Ark
yonr druggist for them. Manufactured by
Walter A. Taylor, Atlanta, Ga., proprietor Tay
lor’s I’lenuum Cologne.
“HoiikIi on Huts.”
Clears out rate, mien, ronchca, files, antB, bod-
bugs, skunks, chipmunks, gophers. 15c. Drgts.
In California, last year, 880,000 pounds of
salt were extracted from sea water,
limi t Tallin.
Palpitation, Dropsical Swellings, Dizziness,
Indigestion, Headache, Sleeplessness cured by
"Wells’ Health ltcnewor."
A h athoi cannon was proved at Edinburgh
in 1778, fired threo times and pronounced good.
Tho short, hacking cough, wliioh leads to
consumption, is om edhy l’iso’B Uuro.
Madagascar, tho third largest island, is over
1,000 miles In length, and 300 miles broad.
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FULLY GUARANTEED. This offer malje fot 60
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in.uootlon bsforo iiurcluuin*.
J. P. 8TUVUN8 & CO., Jewelers,
AtluUl*. lit.
AGFVrM WANTED forts. r.trrs.i
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P IONEER
HEROES
\m\D
Vital Questions!tt!
A>h tho most eminent physician
Of any school, whnt is t ho best thing In th»
world for quieting nml allaying nil Irritation
of tho nerves, and curing all forms of nervous
complaints, giving natural, childlike refresh
ing sleep always!
And they will toll you unhesitatingly
“Sonic form of Hops! //”
CHAPTER I.
Ask any or all of tho most eminent physl
clans:
“What Is tho host nnd only remedy that
can be relied on to cure nil diseases of the kid
neys and urinary organs;such ns bright’s dis-
ease, diabetes, retention, or inability to retain
urino, nnd all tho diseases and ailments pecu
liar to AVomer.—”
“And tbov will tell you explicitly nnd em
phatically, : Suchu!!!"'
Ask the samo physicians
“What Is tho most reliable and surest euro
tor nil liver diseases or dyspepsia, constipa
tion, indigestion, biliousness, malaria, tovor,
ague, &c.,” nnd they will toll you:
‘‘Mandrake I or Dandelion 11! P'
lienee, when theso remedies nro combined
with others equally valuable,
And compounded into Hop Hitters, such n
wonderful nnd mysterious curative power is
dovolopod, which'Is so varied in its operations
thnt no disease or ill health can possibly exist
or rosist its power, nnd yet it is
Harmless for tho lhosi. frail woman, weak
est invalid or smallest child to uso.
CHAPTER II.
11 Tallents
“Almost dead or nearly dying"
For years, nml given up by physicians, o,
Bright’s and other kidney diseases, liver com-
plaints, sovero coughs, called consumption,
have beon curort.
Women gone nearly crazy! 11!!
From agony of neuralgia, nervousnoss,
wakefulness, nml vnrious discuses peculiar to
women.
People drawn out of shnpo from oxcniclut-
tng pangs of rheumatism, inflammatory and
chronic, or suffering from scrofula.
Erysipelas !
“Snltrheum, blood poisoning, dyspepsia, in
digestion, nnd, in fact,almost all disonses trail’
Naturo Is liotr to
Hnvo Ixxin cured by nop Btttors, proof oi
whieli can bo found in ovory neighborhood in
tho known world.
l-jy None genuine without o bunch of green
Hops on tho whtto Inbol. Shun nil tho Tils,
poisonous stuff with “Hop"or "Hops"in theli
namo.
CATARHN Hay Fever
•**.*—* x oatArrli &«*•
,, i I'lolft of DeSoto, l.tSullfl, Rlnmltch. Hoodo, Kenton. Ilrnrir,
i I CmrVrtt, Rowle, Houston. r*rmn, Cuiter, Wiki BUI. Huff*to
e ! llill, (Jrn*. Mile* anil Crook,Vrrunt Indinn Chief? and •corcfol
■
noticeable, they sny, among the wives
and mothers, ns is the ease iu Loudon,
but is confined to the unmarried ones.
This is startling to one who recalls tho
proud boast of the New Yorkers of
simpler days, that the women of Now
York not only demonstrated tho safety
of the American method of rearing girts
hut proved that women so reared became
the models of their sex. But we might
! as well make up our minds that we iivo
' in n city different in a thousand ways
! from the solid, practical, commercial
j seaport presided over by the last genera
tion. The names that decked the scrolls
of fashion then aro yet to he found in
the city directory, but the days are gone
when their simple parties aud solid din
ners were fit to be considered
Bis Reward.
undertook to dispute the courage of
Charles O’Conor."
ffilieat in the Central States.
After tho closo of tho competition tho
jump was remensnred, and tho judgos
announced thnt by nctual measurement
it was just G foot fi inches from tho
grouud, not G feet 5 iuohos, os wra nt
first announced,
Anoiticr II o Snveil,
J. C. Gray, of Dadovillo, Ain., writes us:
“I have boon using your Dr. AVm. Hall’s
Balsam for tho Lungs, nml I rnn sny, of a
truth, it is far superior to any oilier lung pro
paration iu tho world. My mother wdh con
fined to hor t>ed four weeks witli a cough, and
hat every attention by a good physician,
but Ho failed to effect a euro; nnd when I got
one bottle of your Dr. AVm. Hall's Hal am
for tho Lungs, she began tomond rightnwny.
I cun sny in truth that it was the ‘means of
saving lior life. 1 know of livo cases that
Dr. AVm, J inti's balsam has cured, nnd my
mother is hotter than sho has boon for twenty
years."
An Ohio manufacturing company
gives its employees n half holiday Satur
days, to disoourngo a desecration of Sun
day.
Hat-Feveb. I can recommend Ely’s Cream
Balm to all Hay-Fever sufferers, it is, in my
opinion, a Bure cure. I was afflicted for 25
years, and nover before found permanent ro-
lief.—W. II. II*bkinb, M.irshfic-lrl, Vt.
Hay-Fever. I have been a Hav-Fever suf
ferer for three years ; have often heard Ely’s
Cream Balm spoken of in the highest terms.
I used it, and with the most wonderful success.
—T. 8. Orem, Syracuse, N. Y.
Only two women in the AVashlngton depart
ments have reached an §1,800 clerkship.
“HoiikIi on Corns."
Ask for Wells’ “Bough on Corns." 15o. Com
plete oure. Hard or soft corns, warts, bunions,
A monument is to be erected iu Faris to Ber
lioz, the eminent composer.
The best test of a human life is the amount
of good it Iibb been and done to others. Mrs.
Lydia E. Pinkham may be given a seat of honor
among thoso who have helped to chango sick
ness into health, and to transform the darkness
of Buffering into the sunshine of rest and hope.
Texas makes highway robbery punishable by
an imprisonment of not less than ten years.
_ Colonel Holler’s Eye AYnter,
Ihe Colonel nover made a successor the Eye
AVatcr business, but Carbolino struck a bonan
za d itli Petroleum as its baso. Ft your hair is
thin aud falling out, try it.
No Norwegian girl is allowed to have a beau
until she can bake bread and knit stockings.
hOAMMF.ii </'
ith 175 fine cn*r»»ln(l$,
t>«ata nn/tblrg to fell*
I’mlHilcIplifk i 1 r M . 1 .OMI8.
I.ylnR Afferti can’t FF.LLandUU
tho truth about Jones. l*ut vour
U,'8 0n ^TNDAMr irr ° U ^
$60.5 TON
WAGON SCALES.
Ruiim Box. T*r« Beam. Frfllffht
i’Hiii. Frro Trice Lint. Every 8u«.
n-lJrr,, J0HE3 OF BIWOEAUTOH,
uinouamton.n. y,
'Afoo
Oar
AN ORGANIZED BUSINESS COMMUNITY.
25tii YEAH. SEND FOB CIRCULARS.
“nnclm Palba.”
Qnick, complete enre, all Kidney, Bladdor
and Urinary Diseases, Scalding, Irritation,
Stone, Gravel, Catarrh of bladder.§1.Druggists.
Robert C. AY in ih run is to deliver tho oration
at the dedication or ihe AVashlngton monu
ment.
A commercial traveler found ?4,600
as lie was getting out of tLie train at
Brussels, which belonged to a dealer in
horses, who had been traveling iu the same
compartment, aud of whom he forth
with went iu search, aud mot rushing
to the station. Tho worthy horse dealer,
with prodigal generosity, offored him a
dollar, which the finder declined.
“Then," said the other, “you must at
any rate como and diue with me; I can
not pass over such a service in this
light manner.” The iuvitatiou was ac
cepted. The invited guest appeared on
time, but no host was forthcoming, aud
the guest, as he paid his bill, vowed to
abstain for all time from favors toward
dealers in horse flesh.
Tho Cincinnati Chamber of Com
merce is in receipt of reports on tho
wheat crops from agents in Pennsyl
vania, Ohio, Indiana, Maryland, Now
Jersey, Delawaro and Virginia.
The secretary furnishes the following
report: “The wheat in Pennsylvania,
Ohio aud Indiana went into the. winter
favorably, especially in tho northern
and southern parts of the States. In
tho central parts it was not so fav
orable. The winter was favorable
to the wheat up to the first ot
March. Tho wheat wns then frozen
somewhat, and injured by the fly,
though not seriously. Up to April io
the month showed a decided improve
ment. From April 25 to the present
time, the weather has been almost per
fect for wheat. The crop will be from j ^fo™Xe™ I 1 S°oh®"eW^T a by C i^ t Sa“
80 to 85 per cent, in Ohio, Indiana aud
Pennsylvania. 1 think, considering,
eighty-five per cent, a good average
crop.
“The average of wheat in Ohio is about
the same this year as it was last, aud is
larger in Indiana. In Eastern Pensyl-
vania, Maryland, New Jersey, Delaware,
Virginia and the district of which Balti
more is tlie centre, the crop never looked
better.
“Tii the Now England States, the crop
about an average, if anything a little
better. The hay crop is looking bet
ter.”
LYDIA E. mKIUM’8
YeptaWe Comport
ZS L POSITIVE CU2H
For Female Complaints and
{Weaknesses so common to
our best female population*
It will euro entirely tho worst form of Fem&le Com*
plaints, all Ovarian troubles, Inflammation and Uloera>
hange of Life,
It will diBsolvo and expel tumors from tho uterus In on
sarly stateo of Uovolopmont. Tho tendency to cancerous
humors there ia chocked very apeodily by itB.uae,
It roraevps faintncfls, flatulency, doKtroys all craving
or stimulants, and relloveB weakness vt tho stomach,
It curc.1 Bloating, Headaches, Nervous Prostration.
3enorrtl DobUity, Sleoplpsaneea, Depression and Indigo*.
Mon. Thnt feeling of bcarltjgdown.causingnaln, wulght
nnd backache. In always permanently cured by ito use.
It will at all times and under all clrcumitances act in
harmony with the laws that govern tho Fomalo system,
For the enro of Kidney Complaints of either sex, thli
‘ ea, Hrice$L00.Blxhr*- --
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^HAYFEVERl
attended by i
flntne t condition of thw
lining membrane of tii*
nocti ilr, tosr-duota and
throat, n IT net in? the
lunge. An non 1 tmiciii
in Hecreted, the din-
(’heme ia acconipanied
with n burning MOM-
tion. There are severe
rpsgine of snenting, Ire-
aback* of head*
ache, watery and in-
11 a mod eyes.
t rp»iu llnliit ti »
remedy founded on a
rnr’wct diagnosis of this
disease and can bs de
pended upon. AO Ota.
nt druKKiftts; tiO cts. by
HAY-FEVER
mail, Kamp'obottU by mail 10 rte.
KliY linos., Driigitlalw. Orrego* N. y.
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tod Cnffr re. indiecur.
fill Cold It.nn or Moo Ro». oh n»
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HABIT
«K0- A. BRADFORD, Ml
| | ps Druggist and Pharmacist,
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Compound ia unsurpassed. Price $1.00. Bixbottles for $5.00
No family should bo without "LYDIA E. PTNKIZAlir&
LTVER PILLS. They euro constipation, biliousness and
torpidity of tho Hvor. 25 cents a box at all druggists.
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Brown’s Iron Bitters com
bines Iron with pure vegetable tonics.
It is compounded on thoroughly sci
entific and medicinal principles, and
caunot intoxicate.
All other preparations of Iron cause
headache, and produce constipation
Brown’s Iron Bitters is the
-L N - r/ * Iron medicine that
is not injurious —its use does not
even elacken the teeth.
It not only cures the worst cases of
Dyspepsia, but insures a hearty ap
petite and good digestion.
Brown’s Iron Bitters is the
Best Liver Regulator^-re
moves bile, clears the skin,
dig-ests the food, CUKES
Belching, Heartburn, Heat
iu the Stomach, etc.
It is the best-known remedy for
female infirmities.
The genuine has above traae-mark
and crossed red line* on wrapper-
Take no other. Made only by
Brown Chemical Co.,
Baltimore, Md.