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Vegetine vs. Electricity.
a*, it.*. fc r *. 5 ?s^sa.f A 19thi 1877 -
Oe;ir Sir—I feel creatly indebted to your excellent
rr.r.dicme, \ egetine, lor what it.has done for me. I
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Was attacked with it three years a no. and Buffering
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eight months at which time I commenced using
J. enevine on the advice of a friend, who had been en
tirejT until the cured by nad it. / left had scarcely used a half bottle
pain me, and my general health.
great blood to improve purifier rapidly I had under influence of this
|Tn also suffered dreadfully
tfuange for the bettor. The constant pain and heav
inws that I had over my eyes lor years disappeared
and the (iischargp of mucus from the head ceased,
my appetite gut better, and strength seemed to come
with every dose of;tnedicine. Too much cannot he
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Verdict for VegetSne
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WILL CLUE RHEUMATISM.
Mr. H. n. Stevens : COLU3IBUB * 0 - Feb - 14 > 1877 *
tor hiid a severe attack of Rheumatism, and'a fri
who hud used the \ egetine advised her to try it,
bott.es she ? Rrt<),:t success, for alter usinp a few
oc it became entirely,cured. 1 am myself
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tism With good success My other daughter iias also
u ed tho V egetine ror Catarrh and Nervous Debility,
nd has been gTe it!y benefited by y* use. X have
alsi > recommended it to many oth is, with good suo
and X honest y believe that tho Vegetuie is the
heit n.odicme lor tiio above-named diseases that
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r>o. 14 V. est Fu ton fctrett, Columbus, O,
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mk L>t);ir h. S.r—1 r. STE h, v^r been troubled w OHi °' April u ' i377; .
deal Catarrh. ve h arid suffered a great
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tor »ne has been a great sufferer from Rheumatism.
I would pay to one and all, Try the Vegetine for such
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Rheymatlsn is a Disease of the Biood.
The t) ood n th a d.sensa, s found to uont'tin an ex¬
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to effect a permanent cure, it must taken regular
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or standing. that thousands Try it, and y.iurvordn t will be ti.e
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never so much as Com i he use of VEG
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POETET.
[Written for the Examiner.]
WOMAN’S WORK.
— o
BY A. H. M.
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This ai an was once very pleasant and true,
With a candid look and happy heart ;
But he spoke of what he was sure to do—
And the „ i brave-souled . . way he would play his
1 *
part; .
In the struggles and trials and strifes of men
lie said such things, and he thought them
then -
You may soe him soon with his bloated face,
His hair tangled up, and his vulpine eyes;
M hile his tremulous fingers twining tr ace
Some game, as the roulette flags °and flies ;
The gray, gaunt look that at times gi res room
To apath’ellc 0
an ahd awful gloom.
A sull i, rynical, shameless sneer
May change that sensitive mouth’s proud
curve ;
His eyes that roving 8 o bright and clear
"With a quick sumise and a sunny nerve ;
Ee dulled and blood-shot, or only glow
v < ith the greed or envy gamblers know.
ML Twain that turned with a high intent,
And soul was shaping out noble ends;
And all the dreams of his lif e were bbmt
With love and honor, and am a and friends;
There will bo the eaviest stones that roll
When seals the grave of hi3 ma dered soul.
Look at him when he may reel away
V. ith a muttered curse and a savage glare
he ;
a outer temple in dread decay
And inner altar profane 1 and hare ;
Haunted by phantoms with gibing f ce_
Hopes cast away and ungarnered grace.
Some ni' fifc, when he reaches his squaldid den,
Some memory will flash across his brain ;
He calls himself then, a man among men
While his nerves are stung tointens^st pain;
“Lost, oh my God, all lost,” may be said
And fir.d him there in the morning—dead.
Only a woman wlio wrought all this—
A woman he loved with his whole soul’s
strength,
And who the whole time encouraged his bliss
And c tiled him lover, until p.fc length
She left him, as she has left them of o'd,
Shorn of his strength ? Well, the story is told.
“Woman’s work” “only” to sav !
Do you kaovV tho might of those lifc'le h :nds f
Do you know they can torture, and starve and
slav ;
Can sear men’s souls with burning- brands—
Can scatter the seed cf a pestilent blight,
Drearer than death and darker than night.
I wonder whether, when men shall rise
To give account at the end of clays;
His mother shall meet those siren eyes
With unspeakable stern, yet sorrowful gaze.
And in judgment ask" an atonement just
For that ruin wrought by caprice and lust.
"SWWJ«WBfiW
Wonmn are not very prtuid < f their
ancestery ; not nearly so much so as men.
You will find a thousand men nai tied
Adam where you will find one. wot nan
named t.f.er her illustrious grandmother.
Eve.'
“Speaking of riddles, Mr, Jones,’ said
a Chicago lanlord, “can you tell rfie the
difference between a beefsteak and a
sfiiugle/ ‘No V “Then I'll brio] you a
.-iiingle heieafter every morning tor
breakfast instead of a beafsteak.’
Never accuse a laundress of being in*
ebriated because she’s ‘three sheets in the
wind/ She may have three mere ironed
and ready to send home.
Spring poetry Her cheeks cj
: were very
ruddy, and the streets were awful inuddi,
and she loudly shiieked “Ob, thunder,”
ns her feet flew from under. It was re**
ally very shocking, for she showed her
striped stocking .—JBoston Advertiser. .
A TAftixiAN Toknado.-— On the Ith of
February the island of Tahiti was visi
ted by a furious hurricane, in which one
hundred and twenty lives were lost and
much property destroyed.
The Legis'alure of Ohio has passed a
law to allow the owners of real esiate
sold at sheriff’s sale to have two years
to redeem the same.
Listen to This, Girls.— Dr. Carbally,
eminent physician and chemist, testifies
that the cosmetics which the fashionable
belles of the present day are so fond of
using,' and deem so indispensable to their
beauty, are the inos deadly enem ies to
the vital system. Paralysis that, fatal
and flightful form of bodily infirmity, is
said to be the result of the Continual use
of the pa'mts or washes used for ename
ling or otherwise artificially whitening
the skin.
The use ot sawdust instead of hair in
moitar to prevent its falling off is recom
mended by a FreiKsh authority. It is
thoroughly dried and sifted through an
ordinary grain stive to remove the lar**
gest particles. The raor:ar is made by
using one part cement, two lime, two
sawdu f, and five sharp sand, ‘he sawdust
being first well mixed dry with the ce~
meut . and , sand. ,
MAKING PROMISES.
Wje are indebted *o the' Woman at
Work; a new hut vilued exchange, for
these wholesome words of advice to
those who 1 have the children
care ot :
Parents should avoid as much as possi
ble, the making of promises to children,
„ a n< [1 d a requiring from them C !•! Ex
promises
» has , • taught . that
penence ns a little child
8 n0t ca P a ^ e °f keeping a promise,
^ 'amh feeding in the meadow is not
more tree Rom i are or reflection that! the
natural child —Yoa supply its physical
needs, and it is satisfied. But when you
create a morbid taste, even sugar phi ms
lose their coating. ‘There,’ said a lady
in a street car, one day, ‘I forgot to get
Tommy some candy, and there will be d
scene when I get home. I always prom
ise him some, to get away in peace.’ I
pictured this home-coming, the scream
ng cnild, the ‘You said you would/
Another time Tommy is to be good half
a day for an orange. He forgets. You
say, ‘Never mind, here it is; you will do
b.uter next time.’ Or perhaps, to gain
the reward, he takes his first lesson in
equivocating, -md you, yourself, not
knowing the truth, pave the way for an
unstable character. A child may be
taught obedience to father and
mother, and tb distinguish between right
and wrong. This can be done without
ft Ut ring the natural disposition too much,
or burdening the mind with promises, or,
what is infinitely worse, searing the con
science with bfoken ones.—If in fault,
punish according to offense, and restore
at once to fav ir. If you wish your child
to be torgiving loving, sweet tempered
and tmtful, be careful that your own ex
ample be wise and kind. Let the teiD.
dvils ,)f its young heart have your stron*
ger love to climb upon, and the whites
ness and swottne>s of the olive plants
will lilt you nearer to Him who says
‘Of such is the kingdom of heaven,’
r
SPEAt GENTLY.
A loud boisterous tone showd a want
of goo-l breeding. The first principal of
politeness is to make ihose afmut you
feel pleasant, and 1 rude coarse manner
ol speaking is annoying to most persons
A good anecdote is related of a in«n
who went by Lie name ot ‘Whispering
Jolm.” vvhieh was giv n to him in ridb
cule. Peop e said he talked as though
lie wefe brought up in a mill. One cold
morning he walked inio a public lionse,
and called out m bis thundering voice;
‘Good morning, land ord, how are you ?
*VYry well, how are you V
‘Oh, I'm well, but i’tu so cold, 1 can
hardly t^Mc,’
Just ti en a nervous traveler wlto was
piesem, ran up to the landlord, exc aim
ing .
’Please have my horse brought as soon
as possible/
•Why, what is the matterT asked the
land! >rd. j
‘Nothing,* ■ 1 traveler.’ j
replied the ‘only
I want to get away before that man
thaics. ’
r Ladies
Tw o Y oiiNG Burned to Death.
—A serious and from its cause a very
unusual accident occured in Philadelphia
on Thursday last. A young lady, re¬
siding at No. 1313 Wood street, Miss
Effie De Costa, while walking about her
room, stepped upon a parlor match, which
ignited, setting her underclothing on fire.
She did not hear the exposition, and the
flames circling round her limbs gave her
the first intimation ot her peril. Her
screams for help brought to her assis**
lance Miss Hattie Green, who resided in
fdlr ‘ same house. In attempting to
smother the flames her clothing took
fire. Others in the house coming to the
rescue the fire was extingiished, but not
before they were seriously burned.’ The
physicians ot the Pennsylvania Hospital,
to which institution they were removed,
pronounced their injuiies of a fatal
acter, ar.d at two o’clock in the afternoon
Miss Green died in dreadful agony, and
it is fiighly probable that Miss De Costa
u ill not live till morning.
The Cleveland Leader tells this queer
story ; “A d; y or two ago a Strang r
called at the house of Mrs Betreley and
wanted to Snow of her it she had ost
v my jewelry. Mrs. Betreley answered
that she did not know, but went and
looked, when she found that a set of
jewelry worth forty dollars was missing.
This she tod the strange?, when he
said : “Don’t be afraid ; yesterday iny -
self and another man were in your house
when and he , the
you were away, stole
set. After we got out ot doors we had
a fight. arM . got the property from him.’
The stranger then took it, from his pock,
*t aud g ive it tc Mrs. Betreley, at the
same time giving her his name aud street
iddress as proof of his genuieness/
TWO DOLLARS Per Annum
COURTING UNDER DIFFICULTIES.
They were courting und*r difficn’ties.
D was in a room through which the
members of the family were continually
passing to and fro.
‘Dear Alice,’ he said, T can no longer
labor under ihe sus—’
[ T he old man appears.]
‘pension of banks is due to the unwise
po'icy— ’
(Old gent passes cn.)
‘I was going to sav, mv dear girl, that
I hope you will premise to he mine, and
name an early day for the bonds—’
[Old woman happens in.]
‘—should never be paid in gold alone ’
[ftxit old g’H.] .
•Name the happy day whe n I may call
you my own] for I cannot believe iha t t
you ,will think ofpte
(O.d man slides in again.)
‘sumption can not be so soon aecomp,
,i8hed -\ '
(The intruder 11
retires.
‘I sav I can’t believe you are entirely
indifferent to me, but will soon grant me
'I )e privilege of calling you wi—.
A ° n d V 0?r * 1
— ife given the financial
mi ' O.d l r J' Jaoy sl.des off)
If you We me just nod your bead,
Vou ^ and, oh, kiss
one sweet to seal it—
one sweet—oh, hel 1 1 —.’
[Prospecti /e father'inHaw.]
‘aiicording to eminent divines, is a
myth, a superstition/
[They were again left alone.]
The old folks conclude that Alice is
sale enough in the company of a young
man who can talk nothing but finances
an ‘I theology, ani so relax their vigi¬
lance.
Music and Matrimony. —Young man,
choose a wife by .the mus ; c she plays
and the way she plays it. If she mani..
t.y a jiredileclinfi ol Stijauss, she is
oious ; for Beethoven She is impractical;
for Liszr, she is too ambi'ious; for Yerd.i,
she b sentimental 4 for Offenbach, she is
giddy ; lor Gounod, she is lackadaisical ;
^ < )1 she is superficial ; for
Ibotow, i she is commonplace ; for ag-
' , s ' l,e idiotic. Ihe girl who ham¬
ll< ’
mers away at “Maiden’s Prayer,” “An*
vil Chon ] s ” and Silvery Waves’ maybe
dppende<3 n ^ on ns a S' 00( ^ COuk ’ and
* u ak ^ dld » n,ld '^ s ^ e ’ n( ll, des the ‘Battle
of Prague” and the “White Cockade’ in
her repertory, you ought to know that
she has been religiously and strictly liur
tured. But, last of all, pin thou thy faith
upon the colico uress ot the girl who can
play “Home Sweet Home.”
One of the holiest regions of th e earth
is along the Persian Gulf, where little or
no rain falls. At Bahrin the arid shore
has no fresh water, yet a comparatively
numerous population contrive to live
tlure, thanks to the copious springs
which burst forth from the bottom of the
sea. The fresh water is got by diving,
lhed'.ver, sitting in bis boat, winds a
great goat-skin bag around his left arm,
the hand grasping his mouth ; then he
takes in his right hand a heavy stone, to
which is attached a strong line, and thus
equipped he plunges in and quickly
reaches the bottom. Instantly opening
the bag over the strong jet of fresh wa
ter, he springs up the ascending current,
at the same time closing the hag, and is
helped aboard. The stone Is then haul¬
ed up, and the diver, after taking breath,
plunges in again. The source of these
co pious submarine springs is thought to
be in the given hills of Osman, some five
or six hundred miles distant,
Sitting Balls Designs.— An Indian,
brother of Little Oiow, Sioux chie r who
,
has arrived in St. Paul from Dakota,
says at Spotted Tail agency lately he
met three Indians who had left Sitting
Bull in the British possessions and re*
furned to their hunting grounds, because
the v were determined not <o take up
.
arms again under Sitting Bull against
wh;te bretheren. They say that
Sitting Bulls people are treated very
by the English, and that Sitting
Bull has expressed a determination to re
fuu, to his lands and aie rather than
submit to such, treatment. Emigrants
are ai living ai Si, Paul for the north
west country at, the rate of two hundred
to three hundred per day ; also coming
in large numbers by lake to Duluth.
deriake Young nian, learn to w*ait; if you ui
to set a hen before she is ready,
you vv II lose your time aud contuse the
lien besides.
‘Here’s my wife and F said a husband,
with much complacency, to Ins silver
wedding guests, ‘who have been married
tive-and-twenty years, and in all that
time haven’t had a single unkind word
with each other.' ; 3y Jove 1 ’ exclaimed
one ot the guests, ‘whai a stupid time
yoo must have had ot it/ ;
NO. II).
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A NEW COTTON PICKER.
A cotton picker which promises to
woik a revolution in the harvesting of
cotton, and it is said will do the work of
one hundred laborers m the field, has
just been invented and patented bv a
North Carolina man. The machine is
about the s ze of and weight of a two*
horse wagon and is upon three wheels,
the center one running between two
rows and the other two outside of them.
Trie two driving wheels, from which is
worked tlie machinery, is high enough
to carry everything above the cotton,
The front wheel is about half the height*
and works on a pivot joint, to which are
attached the horses which walk between
the row?. Tlie picking machine consists
of two huidted finger shaped cards bn
India rubber, working up and down
through the stalks as "the machine ad,
vances.
These cards will not take hold of any¬
thing but the lint of the open cotton, and
takes that whether it is on the ground or
on the lop cf the stalk. Leaves, Uvigs
and imlls will not stick to them, but the
cotton touched in ever so small a degree
instantly adlieres, and will not let go uns
til brushed off the top bv the bmshor,
whence it ia taken on an apron of bands
aud deposited in a receptable in the rear
in a light straight form, entirely free
lrom dirt. The machine is reduced to
its lowest simplicity, has adjustable parts,
is very durable and easily managed.
The driver by leaning back in his seat
can stop the picking in order to
drive to tire place to unload. This is
done without throwing the wheels out of
gear. The harvester is estimated to
pick out the cotton at the rate of one
dollar per bale, and in every way a com
[> ele machine, as has been proved by
practical use.
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The llhevcs
of Griffin that what is known as the
‘chicken torpedo’ is about to be intros
duced in that community. The tprpedo
is thus described : ‘The invention eon
sists in placing a torpedo charged with
powder, slugs and bullets in the interior
of a prepared fowl. The chicken is
placed on a perch as natural as life, and
the explosion occurs immediately on its
removal. The balls within are so ar¬
ranged that they fly in all directions at
the instant that this fowl is removed from
the perch or roost, and tiie remover is
ceitain to be instantly scattered around
in small particles. This ingenious con
Irivaace, the inventor claims, is per¬
fectly harmless so long as it remains il n
disturbed, and no one is responsible for
the sudden death of the parly who tam¬
pers with it except the party himself.’
Dr. Cari-ally farther tells us, seriously,
that the-peculiar droop of the hands, sars
cast Dally called the ‘kangaroo style,’ and
one which was supposed by the com mu
nity to be a mere Leak of fashion, ready
and truly has ils origin in a partial para**
lysis of the extensor muscle of the foi e
a'‘in, produced by the use of those out¬
ward poisons. Some fashionable geese
of her acquaintance followed suit by
crooking their writs and drooping their
hands, like so many hens with their
wings broken.
We learn also that all powders, paint
and liquids which impart a polished,
scintillating whilenels to the skin, con.->
tain metallic poisons, and are extremely
perilous. The more beautiful, the more
dangerous.
A college boy who received his deg ree
at Lnion College only a few months ago,
lias been mudered in Colorado for his
money. Early this month Mr. Brockel
mann went to the Adobe Walls, on the
Canadian river, in company with several
cattle men, and remained in their camp
several da)s. Finally he set out for a
ranch in Bent county, having purchased
a mare and some provisions. A.stranger
from Dodge City volunteered to aceom
pany him to the railroad, and the offer
was gladly accepted. The two men en
camped that night under a cottonwood
tree, and five days afterward the stu
dent’s body was found on the ground
neatly covered with two blankets, His
hands had been tied bs'iind his back and
his head had been beaten in with bis own
gnu, a new rifle, which, broken at the
stock, was lying by his side. His horse,
his pistol, his coat and his money were
missing, but the provisions had been left
behind.
A New Jersey editor was recently sent
f 0 j he penitentiary for libel. They usu
a j|y fine an editor one cent for that ok
t eriS e, but in this case the probability’ is
that, owing to a lack of advertising "follow and a
scarcity ouldn’t of job-work, the poor
*. raise the money, and was , glad
compromise off six ufodibs’ imprison
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