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Rlalae** Credit Mobilier ConnetMon. Washington, April 10, 1880. One of the gr> jt<*st sensations in Amorioan fiolities prod lie ii by t.lie investigation of She Ciedit. Mobilier in its relation to members •t Congress, w inch occurred during the win ter o£ 1872-8. During the political campaign •f WW. charges were made in certain news papers >hat tiakos Ames, a member of Con (rrcss from Massachusetts and the leading mind in tho Union I’aciflc itailroad enter firiw, had used the stock and dividends of an nSKjc corporation known as the “Credit 35v;!>s!irr of America ' to advance the inter ests ot the enterprise in Congress. Home of theso publications went so far as to give the names of the beneficiaries. The following names were included in the ist.: dames G. liiaine, of Maine; James W. Patterson, of How Hampshire; Henry Wilson, of Massa chusetts; Schuyler Colfax, of Indiana; •9&ou,as D. Elliott, of Massachusetts; Henry J„. Pawcs, of Massachusetts; George S. ilout weil, of Massachusetts; John A. Bingham, of Oh o; James A. Garfield, of Ohio; Gleunie **'. Schofield, of Pennsylvania; William I). Kelly, of I’ennsylvania. The charge did not attract much attention ut first, but, after a while, several of the gentlemen mentioned denied that they ever received any of the Stock or bonds of the Credit Mobilier from Oakes Ames, as alleged. Soon after the elec tion it began to be understood that tnis ran dom newspaper charge was the beginning of a very serious matter. On the first day of the short session of the Tarty-third Congress, in December, 1872, James G. Blaine, of Maine, tho Speaker of the House of Representatives, left the chair to which lie called 8. 8. Cox in his absence,'and, taking the Moor, moved the appointment of a committee to investigate “accusations made in the public p.ess, founded on alleged letters of Oakes Atnes, a Representative from Massa chusetts, and upon the alleged affidavits of Henry S. McComb, a citizen of Wilmington, SJeL. to the effect that members of the House were bribed bv Oakes Ames to perform cer tain legislative Hcts for the benefit of the Union Pacific Itailroad Company by presents of stock in tiie Credit Mobili r of America, or by presents of aialuable character derived therefrom.” Mr. Blaine moved the appoint ment of a committee of five, and Mr. Cox, whether of his own motion or of Mr. Blaine s Is unknown, appointed Mr. Po and, of Ver m nt; Mr. Banks, of Massachusetts; Mr. Mo •Crary, ef Iowa; Mr. Niblaek, of Indiana, and Mr. Merrick, of Maryland. The committee Keid its first, meeting on Thursday, December J 2. and at once the Speaker of tho House of Representatives appeared and made the fol io A’ing statement, the committee sitting with doses! doors; With the leave of the committee I will sub mit my testimony in writing for the sake of accuracy, and when 1 have finished 1 shall, of course, answer any questions which the com mittee may desire to ask by way of examina tion or cross-examination. And I wish to State that 1 never owned a share of stock in tde Credit Mobilier in my lile, either by gift, purchase or in any way whatever. Nor did I ever receive, either directly or indirectly, a single cent d 'l iv cd in any manner from the Credit Mobilier or from the union Pacific Rail road Company. No person holds or ever did hold for me any stock in either corporation, agent, trustee, or in any capacity whatever. I wish my testimony to be taken as exhaustive and as intended to exclude every form or phase of ownership in the' Credit Mobilier or the Union Pacific Kailioad Company, both past and present. I desire further to state that some time in the spring of 1888, the precise date I wilt not affirm, Oakes Amos asked me one day if I would like to purchase some stock in the Cre lit Mobilier. He said it would prove a fou i investment, Mild he could soil me tea sii: res of the Mock at a rate somewhat above par—l thiuk ro.ne $1,1160 for the ten shares. \Ve had some conversation in regard to the in a ter, and Mr. Ames told me very frankly that in regard to these share) there was a lawsuit either pending or threatened, though tie said his right to sell the shares was perfect ami undoubted. I concluded that I uid not tics re to purchase the stock, and therefore dec.ined Mr. Ames'offer. I bOJ to say, how ever, in justice to Mr. Ames, but more espec ially in just ce to myself, that it never once Get Ti red fo mo that he was attempting to bribe me, or in any way influence my vote or action as a representative. I understood him to say that he was the owner of more of the stock than he wished to carry, and was offer ing it to some of his friends at cost and inter es to him, a slight advance above par value. The amouut offered me was very small, and mule little impression on my mind; indeed m »cii nigh lix-gotten until recalled by the investigation. Mr. Amos never offered me .any of the stock at any other time than as iJhas been narrated, nor was any of the stock evrt offered to me at any time by “any other person or corporation.” The report of tho evidence states that Mr. Blaine then turned to Mr. Ames and said : "I desire to ask him whether the statement I ha;e just made is correct." Mr. Aines is i©- ported as answering: “Yes, sir, your state ment corresponds, substantially, with my recollection of the facts.” That is all that is given in regard to the examination of Mr. Ilia ne, and ttiere is the best authority for eta ing that the report was so altered that it completely fails to refioet wliat actually oc curred in tho committee room. Jeremiah S. Black addressed some important questions to Mr. Baine which, with tho answers thereto, \*tre omitted altogether from the report Tho committee did not press Mr. Blaine at all, but devoted its time entirely to the other gentle men who were mentioned as the beneficiaries of Mr Ames, Several of these gent emeu stated the truth in regard to their deahugs with Mr. Arnes, and had no difficulty. Others, like Mr. Colfax and Mr. Uatterson, after at- tempting to induce Mr. Ames to swear to tes timony which was not true, made such fabri cations In regard to themselves as to lead to their ollicial disgrace and degradation. But Mr. Blaine was the only one whose name appeared on the list and who swore that he had no dealings whatever with Mr. Ames. He made this statement in the faee of the following testimony bv Henry S. McComb, ■who was the second witness (after handing tl>e list of names to Mr. Poland): “I wrote th ose na.n esas Mr. Ames read them to me from his memorandum-book. He sat on one sde of the table and i sat on the other in the oiliee of the Union Pacific Railroad Company in New York, just as we sit opposite each other now at this table. When be read I wrote the names. This was early in February, 1868." The listof names was as above given, except that there was a newspaper correspondent and one or two other persons hesid s those mentioned. Mr Blaines name had the fig ures “3,000' against it on tiie memorandum* book, meaning <lO shares of tlie Credit Mo bilier. Mr. McComb, also produced an ac knowledged letter from Mr. Ames, dated Jan us ry 2s, 1868, in which be said: “l have as signed as far as 1 have gone to 4 from Massa chusetts, 1 from New Hampshire. 1 Delaware, 1 Tennessee, 1 Ohio, 55 Pennsylvania. 1 Indi ana. 1 Maine, and I have 3 to place, which I shall put where they will do most good to us. I am here on the spot and can better judge where they should go.” Recently the writer had a conversation wilh a near fiiend of Mr. Ames, who has a ways defeuded his memory and eh illenged any proof of the assertion t hat he was an untruth ful man. 1 had not asserled lo him that l thought Mr. Ames untruthful, but I told him that I always had great difficulty in reconcil ing the a icged tes imony of Mr. Amos before the Polan I committee, relative to Mr. Blaine, ■with the facts as showu by Mr. McComb's statements and the memorandum book itself. “Vou, yourself, well know," 1 said to him, **that Mr. Blaine's name was on Mr. Ames memorandum book with the other names, aud that he was a sharer with others in the distri bution ot the Credit Mobilier stock?" The re ply was as follows: "If you knew what I know, you would say that Mr. Amos was a perfectly truthful truthful man. 1 was in the committee-room when Mr. Blaine made his statement, ana I know all that happened. The record makes Mr. Ames corroborate Mr. Blaine. It is not truo. He did not do it. I was stand ng beside Mr. Ames when the question was asked him whether Mr, Blaine 8 etafemeut was in accordance witti Ins recol lection, nnrt I ircmlAed for him then, but he never opened his lips—no matter what the report of the evidence may say—he never opened his lipsi" The gentleman who made this slatement is a man wliose woid will be taken anywhere, and his testimony that Mr. Am •« lips were closed when the record made him vindicate Mr. Blaine, startled me. When the latter pro ceeded to make a detaiied statement to the committee he said: "V'ou have heard Mr. Blaine s testimony in advance of mine and my acquiescence therein. He declin' d the «toek, and nothing more need be said." This was a peculiarly worded statement, but it g?i eg further than the memorandum book or the facts will justify. Mr Blaine was con ®inntly with Mr. Ames during the winter of 18,1-3. He spent much of his time with him *i the Arlington Hotel, and, to use Mr. Ames' own words: “He watched me like a cat." Mr Ames positively refused to allow anybody to look at Ins memorandum book, which boie the name of Mr. Hlaine, and there is no doubt that he used his efforts to dofeiid ami save the reputation of Ihe Speaker of the House of Hepresentativc3. But why, it may be asked, did ihe distinguished man who listened to Mr. Blaine’s statement in the committee room tremble tor Mr. Ames when Mr. Blaine asked bim to corroborate his story? And why were Mr. Ames' lips then closed? Ana why was an answer put into his mouth in the reixvrt o ' ♦he evidence? The statement has befen made fey friends of Mir. Ames that Mr. Blaine, when offerod a share in the Oedit Mobilter stock, 8-muted the bargain on account of the small ness of the amount and demanded fltH-fittOi) worth of it, Whatever inav be the facts his name stands in Mr. Ames' memorandum book with the figures "8.0 JO ’ against it, and Mr. Ames’ remark: ‘‘You have heard Mr. Blaine’s testimony and my acquiescence in it,” is certainly a remarkable one He doe* not say that Mr. Blaine's statement is true, but only that he acquiesces in it. Mr. Ames was in a very difficult position at that time He knew that be would be threatened with expulsion, and the Speaker’s infiueqce was very valuable to him. Besides, he tel* kindly toward Mr. Blaine, while he did not feel so to ward. Ms. Colfax and some others, who were trying to place him in a false attitude. So ho left Mr. Blaine’s statement pass with his “ac quiescence." But this does not prevent num bers of people who believe themselves con versant with the facts from saying and be lieving that the memorandum book was cor rect. and that Mr. Blaine did receive the divi dends on thirty shares of Credit Mobilier stock. Mr. Blaine recently, when squarely confronted with the statement that there was proof in the possession of the heirs of Oakes Ames to show that he (Blaine) was interested iu the Credit Mobilier, did not deny the fact, but replied; “Do you suppose the children of Oakes Ames are going to mako public any thing that will cast everlasting disgrace on the name of their father?” When Jay Cooke &Co. ofjl’hiladelphia failed in October, 1878, their estate went into bank ruptcy. A list of their assets was afterwards published, and in it anpeare 1 an item of a loan on a mortgage of the residence of James G. Blaine, 831 Fifteenth street, Washington, ot SB3 833.38 M, which, together with unpaid interest, amounting to some $7,000 made a claim of about $40,000. which the estate hail against Mr. Blaine. The debt was soon paid up, and not much ever said about it. Wnen the fact came out in 1879, that Mr. Blaine had boon one of tho agents of Jay Cooke A Co. for disposing of blocks of securities of tho Northern i’acific Railroad Company, it was remembered that a very large quan tity of these securities had been divided up into amounts of $88,888.88b;, ami hail been marketed in those amounts. It was also thoughtto bo singular that Mr. Blaine, who was already a very wealthy man. should have allowed his interest money to have remained unpaid for over two years. Some surprise was also caused by the fact that so shrewd a financier as Mr. Blaine should have a mort gage on his residence largely in excess of the cost price or selling value of that residence. But as this appeared to be a private mat ter, no attempt was ever made to investigate it officially. Mr. Blaine has been given a great deal of trouble at different times by a record in a case in the Supreme Courc, originally filed several years ago. in which he appeared as the owner and recipient of a quantity of stock of the railroad corporation afterwar 1 known as the Kansas Pacific Railroad Company. His cousin, Thomas Ewing, of Ohio, was one of the counsel for this company, (and it was an applicant for Congressional favor. When the fact that Mr. Blaine’s name was down as a re cipient of the securities of this company be came semi-public through the court proceed ings, Mr. Blaine became very nervous about it. Efforts were made to have it understood that the recipient of the bonds was John E. Blaine, a brother of the Senator, who is now a paymaster in the army. A young attorney named Knowlton (now dead) who had wit nessed a transfer of some of these bonds, to which Mr. Biaine was a party, in the office of Stewart. & Riddle, in this city, having divulged the fact, Mr. Blaine was put to considerable annoyance. Tbe facts are now well buried out of sight. The scandals growing out of his dealings with the Little Rosk & Fort Smith Railway, the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway, the Union Pacific Railway and the Northern Pacific Railway, have caused the minor incidents of his interesting financial career to pass out of view. One of the most annoying experiences Mr. Blaine ever had hero resulted from the fail ure of tho Jav Cooke banking concern. The cashier of that bank, named Huntington, was intimate with Shepherd and all the Dis trict ring magnates. In fact, he was one of them He died and left in his wife's ban is a lot of papers, among which were some that interested Mr. Blaine. These papers were passed by Mrs. Huntington to a voting man named Frank Ga-saway, formerly well known here. Mr. Blaine became greatly interested in Mr. Gassaway’s welfare, and sought numerous important appointments succes sively for him. He finally obtained for him a Government position in California.—Cor. opringfleUi (Mass.) Republican. A Magnetic Candidate. The belief that Mr. Blaine is “a mag netic man” is the primary article in the Republican creed. It is remarkable how thoroughly that attribute of his— i it it is an attribute—supplies the place of every desirable characteristic in a Presidential candidate. Five-sixths of his admirers admire him because iie is j “magnetic.” They have, in fact, no | other reason to give for their adruira | tion. Occasionally they start out with j the declaration that he is “smart” or j “mighty smart;” and once in a while | they suggest in a flabby, feeble kind of i a way that he is a “statesman.” But if they have any real enthusiasm about { their candidate they do not think of finishing their eulogy without assuring their hearers that “Blaine is a magnetic man. Precisely what they mean by “mag netic” none of them seem to know. The Free lias caused several prominent Blaine men in the city to be interviewed on the point with a view of apprising tbe’public exactly jwhat is it to be a truly magnetic candidate. The re sult, however, is far from satisfactory. A leading Federal officeholder, ap proached on the subject, was supreme ly confident that “ Blaine is the most magnetic man, sir, that has ever been known in the history of America, sir.” Being pressed for a definition ot the phrase, “ magnetic man,” he lost his volubility somewhat, but seemed to think that a “magnetic man” was a man with magnetism in him, or some thing of that sort. Being further pressed, he could only add that he could not tell exactly what the words meant, but that “Blaine is a magnetic man, and don't you forget it.” To another Republican leader, a candidate since yesterday for a Stale oiliee, a similar question was put. “What do I mean by a magnetic man 3 ” said he; “ why, 1 mean a man that is magnetic—that magnetizes peo ple, don’t you see? A kind of a masr netizer; that’s the idea.” “Yes,” said the interviewer, “ L hear what you say; but Ido not seem to get a per fectly clear idea of what you meaD;” and he started after a county official who supports Blaine on “ magnetic ” grounds. gp The county official was more com munative. “I regard a man as mag netic,” he said, “when he sort of draws people; in short, when be magnetizes them.” “Is it anything like the Georgia wonder,” asked the interviewer; “does it push men around with an umbrella or a billiard cue and yank them out of chairs that they are trying to hold down?” “Not exactly,” said the county official; “it’s a kind of an influence—or an effiuence—that 1 don’t understand anything about; but when a man has it he is magnetic. Blaine’s got it big ger’n a hippopotamus.” Encouraged, but not quite hopeful, the interviewer tackled, as a last resort, a young Kepublican limb of the law who professes great admiration for the magnetic Blaine, and plumply asked him what he meant by a magnetic can didate. The “limb” seemed surprised at being attacked with so easy a conun drum and gave at once an off-hand an fwer; “A magnetic man—er, that is to say, a magnetic candidate—er is a can didate -er that is magnetic—er. a can didate with magnetism in iim like Blaine —er —why, j'ou know what he is as well as 1 do. ’ ’ — Detroit Free Press. The Thermagion. The extraordinary cheapness and abundance of petroleum has time and again suggested its possible usefulness as fuel as welf as light. Iu San Fran cisco they have been trying an experi ment in which petroleum and water are combined. The fuel is placed in a tank outside or on top of the house, ami jll that is necessary is to turn a faucet a&l the material is conveyed to an attach ment that tits any ordinary stove. In this arrangement there is a saving of the carriage of the coal as well as the re moval of the ashes. This tliermagon will heat a house or cook a dinner at one-third the expense of bituminous coal. It is said to l>e safer than any or dinary tire. As petroleum is being dis covered in all parts of the world, it may yet become one of the principal fuels of mankind. Its cheapness is shown by the fact that its wholesale rate is rarely more than a dollar a barrel, and during the past spring it has been selling in New York as low as fifty-five cents a barrel. — Demorest's Monthly. Giving a Hint to Xature. Again, in “Murphy’s Master,” I got rid of a great number of disagreeable characters on au island in the Indian Seas by the simple though startling de vice of submering the island itself ; the few respectable persons who inhabited it (including the hero and heroine) be ing most properly and providentially saved in a tishing boat. Some critics thought it audacious; but nature was so favorably impressed by my little plan that she used it herself two years after ward, and in a more comprehensive way than I should have dared to invent; an island in the Bay of Bengal, with the Kinshra Lighthouse upon it, with seven scientific assistants, being submerged in a precisely similar manner. I do not wish to be hard upon nature, and, with out givirg details, which could not but —Gen. Davis, of the British army, ho was a famous insect collector, once pivked up a wheelbug in West India is lands, and received a blow that paral ized his arm fftr sorn t time. As he shook the insect oft he. noticed where it had stood on his hand six red marks, the im pression of its feet. Kirby and Spence also refer to this peculiarity of the insect, and other naturalists have received shocks from certain luminous beetles. Capt. Blakeney took up an unknown caterpillar and immediately received such a shock that his entire right side became paralyzed, and for a long time he was dangerously ill. —TheYirgina (Nev.) Enterprises ays that mattfe's at the Coeur d’Alene min ing district continue in a bad way. boom,” it says, “of a few months ago has come to an untimely end, caused mainly by the reports which have lately got abroad, declaring the new mines a fraud and perfectly worth less, so far as the yellow metal is con cerned. Indeed there is a sort of a stampede setting in the opposite direc tion, great streams of immunity being daily strewn along the trails east ward bound—all going back to (Sviliza tiOD-” J —The project of an America# expo sition in London in 1886 attracts more attention in the press of England than in that of this country. A pretty girl up town says the cholera is like a traveling tnan, because it never joes anywhere without its grip.— Merchant traveler. THE MARKETS. Cl Cl > n ATI, September 8,1884. LIVE STOCK—Cattle—CßHi 11101143 00 @ 300 Choice butchers 4 25 @ 5 00 HOGS—Common 4 2.5 @ 5 25 Good packers 5 50 @ 5 85 SHEEP—Good to choice. 325 @3 75 FLOUR—Family 4 25 @ 4 75 GRAlN—Wheat—Longberry red 81 @ 82 No. 2 red @ 80 Corn—No. 2 mixed @ 58 Oats—No. 2 mixed @ 28(4 Rye—No. 2 & 55(4 HAT’—Timothy No. 1 1100 @llsO HEMP—Double dressed..* 8 75 @ II 00 PROVISIONS—Pork-Mess 18 00 @lB 50 Lard—Prime steam @7 75 BUTTER—Fancy Dairy 16 @ 18 Prime Creamery 24 @ 26 FRUIT AND VEGETABLES— Potatoes, per barrel 1 75 @ 2 00 Apples, prime, per barrel... 125 @3 00 NEW YORK. FLOUR—State and Western $2 65 @ 3 3045 Good to choice 3 70 @ 6 001-,o 1 -, GRAlN—Wheat—No,'.’Chicago. @ 88 No. 2 red 90X@ 00-'g Corn—No.2 mixed 68 @ 70 Oats—mixed 33 (<$ 44 PORK-Mess 18 00 @lB 25 LARD—Western steam @ 7 82(4 CHICAGO. FLOUR—State and Western.... $5 50 @ 500 GRAlN—Wheat—No. 2 red @ 81 No. 2 Chicago Spring 77 @ 78 Corn—No. 2 55(4@ 58(4 Oats—No. 2 @ 2514 Rye @ 54 PORK—Mess 18 50 @l9 t)0 LARD—Steam 7 ii‘i@ 7 37(4 . BALTIMORE. FLOUR—Family $4 00 @5 00 GRAlN—Wheat—No 2 8888 Corn—mixed 60' ,@ 61| Oats—mixed 30 @ 32 PROVISIONS —Pork—Mess @l9 25 Lard—Refined @ 914 INDIANAPOLIS. WHE AT—No. 2 red $ @ 7814 CORN—mixed @ 5114 OATS—mixed @ 25(4 LOUISVILLE. FLOCK—A No. 1 $ 4 1.3 @4 25 GRAlN—Wheat —No. 2 red.. 75 @ 80 Corn —mixed @ 56 Oats—mixed 28'j@ 29 PORK —iness @lB 50 LARD—steam @ 9(4 BAFFLED i On® of the Mont UuaccountaM® an rf Dan gerous of Recent Deceits Dis covered and Exposed. There is some mysterious trouble that is attacking nearly everyone in the land with more or less violence. It seems to steal into tho body like a thief in tho night. Doctors can not diagnose it. Scientists are puzzled by its symptoms. It is* in deed, a modern mystery. Like those se vere and vague maladies that attack; horses and prostrate nearly all the animals in. the land, this subtle trouble seems to menace mankind. Many of its victims have pains about the ohest and sides, and sometimes in the back. They feel dull and sleepy; the mouth has a bad taste, especially in the morning, A strange sticky slime col lects about th® teeth. The appetite is poor. There is a feeling like a heavy load upon the stomach; sometimes a faint all-gone sensation is felt at the pit of the stomach, which food does not satisfy. The eyes grow sunken, the hands and feet feel clammy at one time and burn intensely at others. After a while a cough sets in, at first dry, but after a few months it is at tended with a greyish colored expectora tion. The afflicted one feels tired all the while, and sleep does not seem to afford any rest. He becomes nervous, irritable, and gloomy, and has evil forebodings. There is a giddiness, a peculiar' whirling sensation iu the head when rising up sud denly. The bowels become costive, and then, again, outflux intensely; the skin is dry and h«t at times; the blood grows thick and stagnant; the whites of the eyes become tinged with yellow; the urine is scanty and high-colored, depositing a sedi ment after standing. There is frequently a spitting up of the food, sometimes with a sour taste, and sometimes with a sweet ish taste; this is often attended with pal pitation of the heart. The vision becomes impaired with spots before the eyes; there is a feeling of prostration and great weak ness. Most of these symptoms are in turn present. It is thought that nearly one third of our population have this disorder in some of its varied forms, while medical men have almost wholly mistaken its nat ure. Some have treated it for one com- Elaint; some for another, but nearly all ave failed to reach the seat of the disor der. Indeed, many physicians are afflicted with it themselves. The experience of Dr. A. G. Richards, residing at No. 4(sßTremont street,Boston, is thus described by himself: “Iliad all those peculiar and painful ymptoms which I have found afflicting so nany of my patients, and which had so >ften baffled me. I knew all the common y established remedies would be unavail rig for I had tried them often in the past. . therefore determined to strike out in a lew path. To my intense satisfaction I 'ound that 1 was improving. The dull, ;tupid feeling departed and I began to en oy life once more. My appetite returned, ily sleep was refreshing. The color of my ace which bad been a sickly yellow grad tally assumed the pink tinge of health. In he course of three weeks I felt like a new nan and know that it was wholly owing o the wonderful efficiency of Warner’s Tippecanoe The Best, which was all the nedieine I took.” Doctors and scientists often exhaust iheir skill and the patient dies. They try verytliing that has been used by, or is mown to, the profession, and then fail, iven if they save the life it is often after ;reat and prolonged agony. Where all his can be avoided by precaution and are, how insane a thing it is to endure uch suffering! With a pure and palatable ■reparation within reach, to neglect its ise is simply inexcusable. For the Cook. Restaurant proprietors are not al ways bad masters. “Here!” called a man. making an impatient gesture which quickly brought the negro waiter “This is the worst piece of beefsteak I ever saw.” “What’s de matter wid it, boss? Ain’t it healthy?” “Healthy! why, it was fed on the Banting system —all muscle and no fat. Can’t j ou bfing me a betterpiece?” “No, sah, dat’s de bes’ we’s got.” “I saw a boy go through here just now with the finest kind of a steak.” “Yes, sah, but dat was fur de cook.” “For the cook!” “Yas, sah. We’s sorter behind wid do cook’s wages, sah, and we haster feed him well ter keep him frum leabin’ us in de lurch Come ’roun’ some time when we’se squar’ wid de gennerman an’ we’ll feed yer in great shape, sah.” —Arkansaw traveler. —A school teacher, having occasion, a few days since, to punish one of his pupils for some misdemeanor, placed him on the platform to wait until he had heard some classes recite; but the cul prit took advantage of the teacher's en gagement and escaped from the school house. The teacher, being somewhat vexed, promised another scholar a re ward of twenty-five cents if he would bring the runaway back to the school house. Before this could be accom plished, however, the boy who had escaped heard of the offered reward, and sent word to the teacher that he would “return and take the licking for ten cents—gash down.' I —Xew York Ledger, “ Rough on Corns.” 15c. Askforit. Com plete cure,hard or soft cor.ns,warts,bunions. Burnt offerings —Cigar stumps.— Mer chant Traveler. “ Mother Swan’s Worm Syrup,” for fev erishness, worms,constipation,tasteless. 25c A rare specimen Restaurant beef steak.—Boston Post. J. C. Gray, of Dadeville, Ala., writes us! “I have been using Dr. Wm. Hall’s Balsam for the Lungs; it is far superior to any other lung preparation. My mother was confined to her bed four weeks with a cough; when I got one bottle of Dr. Wm. Hall’s Balsam, she began to mend right away. I can say in truth that it was the means OF SAVING HER LIFE.” The woman who powders her face and bangs her hair should wear a shot silk iress.— JV. Y. Journal. Skinny Men. ‘‘Wells’Health Renewer” re stores health and vigor, cures Dyspepsia,sl. - ♦ Who of us ever untied a knot in a cord of wood;'— Lumberman's Record. It is truly wonderful to see how the name of Mrs. Pinkliain is a household w. rd among the wives and mothers of our land. Alike in the luxurious homes of our great cities and in the humble cabins of the re mote frontier one woman’s deeds have borne their kindly fruit in health for others. If carbolic acid doesn’t suit you as a disinfectant, then bi-chloride of mercury. —Ht. Louis Critic. “Buchu-paiba.” Quick, complete cure, all annoying Kidney and Urinary Diseases, fcl. The policeman is arrestive sort of • character .—-Marathon Independent. If you want a fine looking face, And a Skin rosy and clear, Use “Beeson’s” Sulphur Soap; all Trace Of disease will disappear. J3“Sold by druggists, etc., everywhere. “I have just returned front a tour through Cork,” as tbe corkscrew said to the stopper. * Glenn’* Sulphur Soap. No specific for skin ailments can cope wita it. Hill’s Hair and Whisker Dye, 50c. Men and horses differ. The latter is worthless unless he is broke, and the for mer is worthless if he is ditto. “Rough on Coughs,” 15c., at Druggists. Com plete cure Coughs, Hoarseness, Sore Throat. .— _ - An old-fashioned knight-cap—A helmet. —A r . 11 Mail and Express. Prso’s Ctntrc for Consumption does not dry up a cough; it removes the cause. Catarrh hay‘fever -1 have beta t Haj twtWPprA | Fcvcr sufferer three jUffLx jd £A CM rW years; have often heard ■ 04 1 El >’ 3 Cream Balm spo ■ °* the highest terms, did not take IfUAVrFVFE? much stock In it bc of the many 'ciL.'Y ,SH l uaok medicines. A friend persuaded me to / fUffl try the Balm, and with i the most woiuierfulsuc cess.—T. S. G kki; Syra jj 5Ad Ely’* Ci-eain Isn)m a remedy oa3ed upon UAYd FEVc a Correct diagnosis of A iua> V “*V this disease and can be depended upon. 50cts. at druggists: SO cts. hy mail. Sample bottle by mail 10 cts. Ely Bros., Druggists, Owego, X. Y. FEARFULLY COMMON. Kidney Complaint Amonir both Sriei and Age*—A Hrillinnt Recovery. Dr. David Kennedy, of Rondout, X. Y., is often con gratulated on the exceptional success of his medicine called " Favorite Remedy" in arresting and radically curing these most painful and dangerous disorders Proofs of this, like the following, are constantly brought to his attention, and are published by him for the sake of thousands of other sufferers whom he de sires to reach and benefit. The letter, therefore, may be of vita, importance to you or to some one whom you know. It i 3 from one of the best known and popu lar druggists iu the fine and growing city from which he writes—and doubtless where those may find Mr. Crawford at his place of business on the corner of Main and Union Streets; Springfield, Mass., March 22, 1884. Dr. David Kennedy, Rondout, A'. Y.: Dear Sir.--For ten years I had been afflicted with Kidney disease in its most acute form. What I suf. fered must be left to the Imagination—for no one can appreciate it except who have gone through it. Ire sorted to many physicians and to many different kinds of treatment, and spent a great deal of money, only to find myself older and worse than ever. I may say that I used 25 bottles of a preparation widely advertised S 3 a specific for this precise sort of troubles, and found it entirely useless—at least in my case. Your "FAVORITE REMEDY”—I say It with a per fect recollection of all that was done for me besides— Is the only thing that did me the slightest good; and I am happy to admit that it gave me permanent relief. I have recommended “FAVORITE REMEDY” to many people for Kidney disease, and they all agree with me in saying that DK. DAVID KENNE DY'S FAVORITE REMEDY has not its equal in the wide world for this distressing and often fatal complaint. Use this le’ter as you deem best for the benefit of others. Yours, etc., Lyman Cr.AW'FOiiD. |m| Best Cough Syrup. Tastes good. H Use in jS— “THE BEST IS THE CHEAPEST.” s A w P ™ ER^ «For all sections arid purposes.) 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Williams, 1103 lfitli street, Washington, D. €. 1 consider your Remedy tho best remedy in existence For Indigestion, kidney —Complaint “And nervous debility. I have just” Returned “From the south in a fruitless search for health, and find that your Bitters are doing me more Good! Than anything else; A month ago I was extremely “Emaciated I ! !” And scarcely able to walk. Now I am Gaining strength ! and “Flesh I” And hardly a day passes but what I am |* ■» * * * * * * t complimented on my improved appearance, and it is all due to Hop Bitters! J. Wiekliffe Jackson. —Wilmington , Del. None genuine without a bunch of green Hopson the white label. Shun all the vile, poi sonous stuff with "Hop" or “Hops” iu their I name. THE SURE CURE FOR r """ KIDNEY DISEASES, LIVER COMPLAINTS, CONSTIPATION, PILES, AND BLOOD DISEASES. | PHYSICIANS ENDORSE IT HEARTILY. \ “Kidney-Wort ia the most suceesaiul remedy I ever used.** Dr. P. C. Ballou, Monkton, Vt. “Kidney-Wort is always reliable.** Dr. B. N. 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