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TWILIGHT. Through silent air, o’er miles on miles of gray- No sound is heard. Where to the quiet plain the waning Whispers her latest word. Beyond the dim wide land serene, the sea Kisses the shore, Where tired waves but now made fretful plea, Tossing the pebbles o’er. Ah, sweet the calm when back into the blue Wild clouds sink home, Nor longer mar the pure undying hue Deep’ning o’er heaven’s dome. Like dusky phantoms bred of earth’s dark breast, The cattle lie Where once they wandered, now content to rest, Still as the earth and sky. So great the silence is, it seems to grow Into a sound. Ah, surely now our reverent hearts shall know • The secret earth has found? More eloquent the burl hened stillness cries ■ Than sounds at noon. And deep’ning brown of land and blue of skies, Soft with the rising moon, Reveal at last the tender bond that binds Great Nature’s whole, As patient through life’s eager day love finds Soul bound at last to soul. Thou dost not speak, who standest at my side At waning of the day. Where we have often watched the eventide Steal into mystic gray. But yet, though thou art dumb, I hear thy .speech, Thy heart I hear, That scarcely in the troublous day could reach Unto my deafened ear; sweeter words than all the words I know Thy silence brings, So let the silence to thee murmur low The song my spirit sings. —Mrs. Comjns Carr, in Harper's Weekly. THE MAN IN BLACK. Major Dalton was in trouble. He had been detailed and sent to one of the largest inland cities in the Confederacy to superintend the manufacture of bombs and torpedoes. Everythi g moved along satisfactorily until the chemist connected with the works made a reckless experiment one day, and blew himself up. The force of the explosion was so great that not a piece of the unfortunate man could be found. ‘•I wouidn’t have minded it so much,” said the Major to his friend, the provost marshal, “if the fellow hadn’t carried , off a lot of valuable papers with him, I He knew lots of chemical secrets, and he I had his formulas written out, and they were in his pocket when he left.” “You might advertise,” suggested the provost marshal. “Good idea,” replied the Mayor; “I’ll doit.” The next morning the city papers com tained a short advertisement, stating that a first-class chemist could secure em ployment. with a good salary, at the Government works. At that time there were very few idle chemists in the Confederacy, and-after waiting several days the Major began to think that he would have to send to Richmond for a man. <me night, when he was alone in his office, he commenced a letter to the Sec retary of War. He had just penned a request for the immediate detail of an experienced expert, when he became conscious of the presence of another per son in the room. “1 didn't see him, and I didn’t hear hear him, ’ said the Major afterwards, “but I could feel mv flesh crawl, and I knew that something was up.” The Ma or wheeled around in liis chair and saw a man standing just inside the door The strai ger was tall and thin and his black suit contrasted strangely with his pa!e face and white hands. Major Dalton noted these points. In addition to his black attire the man’s hair and eyes were of the same sombre shade. lie even wore a black watch cha n, a pair of black rimmed eyeglasses and a black seal ring. The officer gave a sharp look at his visitor s lace, but its dead whiteness was as exp e-sion!ess at a mask. “Alum!” ejaculated the Major. “I must introduce myself,” said the stranger stepping forward. “My name is i eiiico. Jam a chemist, ai*l lam familiar with the manufacture of ex plosives. I saw your advertisement and decided to offer my services.” He spoke rapidly, in a musical voice, with a slight foreign accent. “\ouarenot an American,” said the Major. “Ita ian,” briefly responded the other. “I belong to a family of famous chem ists, and we have served nearly every government in Europe.” Ju-t then the Major remembered that j he had a sentry stationed iu front of the i office. “But, sir!” he broke out, angrily; “liow did you get iu?” “I beg your pardon,” answered Pelli <o, courteously. “When your office was pointed out to me I walked in.” ‘•But the sentry, the guard:” “Oh, the soldier—l simply passed him by.” “You ran the risk of getting shot,” growled the Ma or. “Not a: all; there was no danger,” was the quiet reply. Pcilico's manner impressed the officer, fid he asked his visiior for his creden- T Is. he man in black produced a letter of /mmendation from a Spanish officer , > high rank in Cuba. “So you have not been long in this eoun’ryf” remarked the Confederate. “'leu days. I slipped through the blockaders, landed in Florida aud then came here.” Further conversation did not cause him to say anything that was inconsist ent with his first account of himself. In the course of half an hour .Major Dalton -was ready to admit he was in the presence of a man of superior intellect, and one who doubtless was master ofhis profession. The interview resulted in the engage ment of Pellico, and on the following morning he went to work. From the very outset the man in black gave perfect satisfaction, but he made no friends. The men called him “Mr. Mid night,” and the officers quietly agreed among themselves that he was a mystery, very useful, no doubt, but a disagreeable companion. It did not take long to make the dis covery that the Italian’s bombs and tor pedoes were the best that had ever been made. One night Pellico paid another visit to the office of Ma jor .Dalton. “Majot,” said he, after some talk about powder, gun cotton, Greek tire and other matters, “the main object of our ex plosives, is to destroy the enemy “I'm, well, yes, to a certain extent,” replied the gallant. Confederate. “What do you think, then, of a bomb that is capable of doing a hundredfold more damage than any now in use?” “It would be a big thing.” “Well,” continued Pellico, “I have invented it. I have a chemical com pound that can * be projected into the enemy’s lines through the medium of a shell, and when the shell bursts a deadly vapor spreads over an area of 100 yards, killing every living thing. One shell is capable of killing an entire regiment.” “Man alive,” exclaimed the Major, “that would be murder!” “And what is war?” Pellico in his low, soft voice. The subject did not drop there. The man in black had so much to say about his invention that the Major found him self deeply interested. “Tnis little thing,” said Pellico, ex hibiting something that looked like a pill covered with tin foil, “would kill a house lull of people.” “It is hard to believe.” “Let me convince you,” urged the chemist. “If you will walk a square with me I will show you something.” The Major ob jected, but the Italian assured him that his ini ended victims were several hogs in the rear of the edi fice. When they reached the place they fpund the hogs quietly snoo/.ing in a fence corner. Then they retired fifty yards or so, and I ellico blew his little pill through a hollow cane. “Wait three minutes,” he said. At the expiration of that time the tw’O approached the fence corner. Four large hogs lay stretched out on the ground. It required only a glance to see that they were all dead. “Now,” said the chemist, as they walked away, “this experiment is on a very small scale, but you can form an idea from what you have seen.” “It is astonishing,” commented the Major. “Nothing to what I have done,” said the man in black. “In Cuba I took a sling and threw a ball of that stuff as big as my fist into a village. The next morning it was found that ail the in habitants, some 300 or 400, were dead. People outside supposed it was some mysterious epidemic, but it was not.” Major Dalton drew himself aloof from his companion. “And you killed those innocent people for nothing?” he asked indig nantly. “In the interests of science, my dear Major. Besides they were native yfcbaus. 1 would not have treated genuin<*ripan iards that wav.” The Major pulled his moustache and walked on in silence for a few minutes. “What do you pro'pose?” he asked, after some re; ection. V- “My scheme is a big one," replied Pei lico. “A few little pellets thrown into Libby, Salisbury and Andersonville will rid us of'all the Yankee prisoners and save our Government no end of expense. Then they must use my invention ia- the field. The armies of Sherman and Grant will melt away before it, and a few hun dred projectiles ffred from long range guns into New York will turn that me tropolis into a city of the dead. What do you say?” “Hallo, Corporal, come here!” yelled the Major. Several soldiers ran to the spot in a hurry. “Seize him!” shouted the officer,” and take him to the guard house. lie is an enemy, a murderer, Satan himself, I be lieve. But, hold on—search him.” “Only some papers and these pills,” said the-Corporal. “I’ll take them, ” said the Major. “Now hustle him 0.l to the guard house,” The Major walked with rapid strides to the office of the commander of the post. The provost marshal was sum moned as a party to the conference, and other officers were also called in. The council lasted until a very late hour. Never in their w hole military ex perience had the officers been confronted with so serious a ptoblem. When they dispersed the sentinel out side heard one of them say: “He is a monster, au enemy to the whole human race. We cannot accept his aid, and if we let him go, he may at auv time turn against us and against our people.” “There is but one thing to do,” said the Major. The next day the min in black was found dead in the guard house. By his side lay a shred of tin foil. “I searched him,” said the Corporal, (“and took all those shiny pills aw r ay j from him. How did that get there I wonder, and whatiu the mischief is it anyhow?” The commander of the post, the Pro vost-Marshal and Maor Dalton showed Intle surprise when they heard of Pelli co’s death. The Corporal, however, heard the Provost-Marshal speaking in an undertone to the Major. “What did you do with the other pellets i" he said. “I rode out to the river and thcwthem in,” answered the .Major. “All right,” responded the marshal. “This has been a strange piece of busi ness from first to last, but 1 don't think that our consciences will ever hurt us for our part in it.” Long years afterwards a gray-haired Confederate veteran mentioned some of the facts of th<? case to a circle of inter ested listeners. “And who was Pellico?” some one asked. “I have always thought he was Satan,” replied the veteran. “Did the Major really kill him?” in quired a lady. The veteran shut one eye and twisted his moustache. \ "We had better not talk about that,” he said, “but you may rest assured that if he did kill the wretch he has never regretted it.” —Atlanta Constitu k . Cuban Railways. Railway traveling in Cuba has some very curious aspects. For instance, when trains arrive at and depart from cities or villages it is rather a queer thing to see, between the depots and limits of all municipalities, a man on horseback pre ceding the engine. No train may arrive or depart more rapidly than the speed of this courier, who announces his own and the train’s coming by tremendous beliow ings and hallooings. Sometimes he is provided with a sort of trumpet, which he sounds lugubriously. The railroads are nearly all of narrow guage, and freight and passenger cars are little and low. Not long ago Cuban engineers were nearly all Americans and received fabulous wages. This was also true of the engineers on the sugar plantations. But Cubans are bright and imitative, and they are alone now in charge. The machinery attests that. It is dingy, rusty, half-ruined. The Cuban handles his engine in a hesitant, hysterical sort of way. He is no mechanic. If a breakdown occurs he calls upon everybody within reach and, in complete desperation, “talks it all over,” runs away altogether or com mits suicide from sheer fright. The railway stations are all walled about as high as a fortress, and freight is handled in the yards and transferred much as a lower Mississippi River steam boat is “wooded” by negro roustabouts who “shanty” with dismal songs, or by the unwieldy bull-earts with their pic turesque carretoneros, so common to the streets of Havana. There are also some odd regulations ab6ut Cuban railway travel. Ticket offices are closed live minutes before de parture of trains; and if one thus fails of securing a ticket, one-third addition al to regular fare is exacted for the first division over which your route mav lie. You are allowed to carry free only a hat box or a medium-size valise; but if your train does not make schedule time 3'ou can stop anywhere along the route and get your entire fare refunded. No “per sons of color” are allowed in first-class cars, though gamecocks in baskets are: and if you attempted to ride upon the platform or to occupy more than one seat, you would immediately be turned over to the guardia civil, whose members ride on trains between stations to flirt with fair senoritas, and to constantly en force the fact that Spain owns Cuba. As in most European countries, there are three grades of passenger coaches, and all are modeled on the American plan. The third-grade cars have only solid wood seats; the second, are Very plain, but the seats are of “cane;” the first are very pleasant and convenient, and in most cases prettily enough deco rated, the woven cane seats taking the place of our plush cushions on account of the difference in climate. The con ductor is uniformed as with us, and is the busiest man on earth for the amount of business he transacts. He is at every body every five minutes for re-examina tion of tickets, and pompous guardia civil, a soldier of one of the three classes of military in the island, is forever at his heels, glaring impudently into faces, demanding with maddening frequency your passport, if you happen to be a for eigner, and especially so if an American, whom the Spaniard loathes, and search ing your peison, or even a lady’s reti cule, if the whim siezes him. How Were the Pyramids Built ? The answer trfffiis question is beyond modern conjectimi, so imperfect is ouf understanding of the extent of the mechanical knowledge of the ancients. Their appliances are believed to have been of the simplest order, and the im plements exceedingly crude, and yet they were able to convey these enormous blocks of stone for vast distances over routes most difficult; aud, having ac complished this, to raise them to a great height, and fit them iu place without the aid of either cement or mortar to cover up the errors of the stonecutter. How all this was done is one of the enigmas of modern science. It has been generally believed that inclined planes of earth were used to enable the work men to raise the huge stones to their places, the earth being cleared away afterward. But it is possible that the ancient 3 had a more extended knowledge of mechanical powers than we usually give them credit for, and that they made use of the machinery very like that employed by moderns for lifting great weights. Large cavities are found in some of the stones in the Pyramids which may have been worn by the foot of a derrick turning in them. That there were enormous numbers of men employed iu the building of these ancient structures is well known. These results of their great aggregated strength we see, but they left no record of the means by which this strength was focussed and brought most effectually to bear on their mighty tasks. Trade Supply News, A Canine Arithmetician. Among the dogs entered at the Washington (D. C.) Kennel Club’s an nual bench show is .Tack, a little black and-tan dog owned by li. A. McMurry. The dog is an adapt in figures and can do anything in arithmetic this side of frac tions. “Jack,” said his master, “get up in that chair and put your paws on the back and count three.” The dog did as he was told, barking three little short barks. ‘ ‘How much are tivo and three? 1 was asked, and he repeated five barks in like manner. He performed several sums in subtraction, multiplication and division, with never a single mistake. Latter Day Philosophy. weet are the uses of Adversity? Perhaps; But some folks can't he Christians on Pork scraps. Blessed are they who also stand And wait? 'Twill pay to wait til) tippingV Of date. Though Modesty’s a jewel of Great worth, 'Tis not the meek,but cheek, i The earth. Let patience have her perfect worJr, You say? Well, she’ll find work till you are old Aud gray. All is not gold that glitters? No. There’s brass. In any crowd, most every day ’Twill pass. Yet virtue is its own exceeding great Reward ? Mayhap, mayhap, it may be, with— The Lord ? —Boston Gio&e THE ART OF ROPE MARINE AN INTERESTING INDUSTRYSEEN IN OPERATION. The Materials Used in the Manufac ture —The Process Examined — Ingenious Modern Machinery. Rope making is an art of very great importance, and there are few that bet ter-deserve the consideration of the in telligent observer. Hardly any industry can l;e carried on without the assistance of the rope maker, and he renders valua ble aid in the a plication of mechanical forces. The aim of the rope maker is to unite the strength of a great number of filters. One would think that this could be done in the completest manner by lay ing the libers parallel to each other .and fastening the bundle at two ends; but this would be ineffective because the fibers are short, not exceeding on an average ten feet in length. It is mjeessary therefore to confine them in such a man ner that the str -ngth of the liber shall not be able to draw it out from the rest of the bundle. This is done by twist ing or turing them together, a process which causes them mutually to compress each other. But should this be thought sufficient the rope would be very poor •indeed, for the fibers, being strained, are more or less elestic, and when would at once untwist. It is necessary therefore to contrive the twist in such a way that the tendency to twist in ore part may act against the same tendency in another and balance it. Moreover, all twisting beyond that needed .to prevent the fibers from being drawn out without breaking diminishes the strength of the cordage. Thus it will be seen that the arrangement of the fibers and the degree of twisting “had to be understood to a nicety in the former hand process. Aii this has been avoided by modern ma chinery, which can be easily run by girls, and which does the work with combined accuracy and rapidity hardly possible in manual labor. The three principal raw materials used in the manufacture of rope at the works in Brooklyn, N. Y., visited by an Eagle reporter, are manila hemp from the Phillipine Islands, which takes its name from their chief city, Manila; Mexican hemp, called sisal, and jute, which is made from the inner bark of two East Indian plants of that name. The fibers of the first of these are about three and a half feet in length, those of the last two from ten to fourteen feet. Mexican hemp is the cheapest, being worth about one half the price of manila hemp. It makes a very strong rope and being used more extensively than the others we will follow it through the different; processes: This hemp plant resemble? in appear ance the cactus and glows to the height of about fourteen feet. Ripening toward the end of August,it is pulled just as the seed vessels turn brown. The seeds are then threshed out and the. stalks soaked iu water or spread upon damp ground m order to strip them of the outer bark or skin. They are then beaten with wooden clubs till freed from all the brittle parts aud the fibers can be disen gaged with readiness. After the fibers haye been hackled, which is done by drawing them repeatedly through a machine filled with long steel spikes, they are packed in bales and shipped. On reaching the works sisal having a harsh fiber is first sent down stairs to be oiled. This relieves the machines through which it afterward passes of much of the work they would otherwise have to per form. The first process is called prepara tion and is performed by two machines, the spreader and the drawer. The spreading machine consists of two end less chains fitted with gilt bars and steel teeth, which comb out and even the fibers and is only another method of hackling on a finer scale. The workman stands in front of this machine and feeds it with the sisal, taking particular care to regulate the supply so that the sliver, as the sisal is called when the process is completed, shall be of suitable size. If fed too freely, the machine is apt to be come clogged, if too scantily, the fibers are liable to break. Some of these machines are very large and will run off a bale»of 270 pounds of hemp in nine minutes, or in ten working hours over sixty bales. From this the sliver goes through another spreading machine, only finer and smaller, which still further straightens and evens out the fibers. This operation finished, the next in order is drawing. The machine for this is similar to the first except that it has but one endless chain and its teeth are considerably finer. By means of it the work of straightening, evening, reducing in volume and drawing out the sliver still goes on until it is suitable for spinning. This ends the process of preparation, Which, to sum up, is a method of mak ing as flue and pliable as possible the coarse libers of the hemp plant. We next pass to the spinning depart ment on the top floor of the works, where the sliver is spun into yarn. On entering the room, the first thing that strikes our attention i 3 the curious ma chine by which this process is done. It is fitted with a self-feeding motion which increases in speed when rapidly supplied with sliver, and again dimin ishes in speed when the supply is slowly given. When the spinner ceases work, the machine stops of its own accord. One would ihink that it had the necessary in-, telligence to know what is required of it and w T heu to commence or discontinue work. It certainly performs its task to perfection, for the yarn which.it is set to spin is alw'ays of a uniform size. After passing through this machine, the yarn is wound on bobbins which are car ried to the laying room. As some of the. larger kinds of cordage are still made in the underground rope walk we shall describe that interesting process: The number of bobbins required for a strand are placed each on an iron rod in frames capable of holding from two to three hundred of them, the number of frames being regulated by the required size of the rope. Suppose, for instance, that one with three strands is to be made. The number of yarns needed for each of these strands after passing first through a concentric circle holes in three steel plates (one for each strand) and then through three hollow tubes which bring and press them together-, are attached to the three hooks of the traveler or forming machine. This ma chine travels down the rope walk by means of an endless chain passing over a grooved pulley, and the latter’s acting indirectly upon a set of gears gives a whirling motion to the hooks. When the traveler reaches the end of the walk, and sufficient twist has been given to tiie three strands the latter are hung together on the middle hook of the machine, but kept separate by a grooved block; of wood. The last operation is performed bv the closing machine,one end of which keeps the three separated strands twisting one way, while the other twists the rope in an opposite direction, and the two twists thus act against and counterbal ance- one another. As- the twisting of the rope shortens the strands, that end of the machine where the latter are hooked, keeps moving up toward the other end until the making of the rope is com pleted. SELECT SIFTINGS. Harvard is the oldest college in the United States. } A chemist announces that wood can be made very palatable. A new Chinese Sunday-school has been opened in Chicago. An alligator nest, found in Rice Creek, Fla., last week, contained forty-three young saurians. In Australia they never launch a ship without having a clergyman present to make a prayer. A nugget of ruby ore, weighing one thousand pounds, and estimated to be worth SIO,OOO, was taken from a mine near Elko, Cal., a few days ago. Red canaries sell for $5 apiece in the bird stores. They are said to be pro duced from the eggs of art ordinary canary that hus been fed on cayenne pepper. A young lady in Atlanta stepped to a window to look at a young man passing by and just then a large piece of plaster ing fell down on the chair she had vacated. Had she kept her seat she would have been killed. A citizen of Douglas County, Kin., has hit upon a hew way of destroying wolves. He puts a chunk of beef where the wolves will find it, and in the fight resulting for its possession one or more are sure to be left dead on the field. The throwing of rice at weddings is evidently a heathen custom, as in India and some other countries to this day rice is showered on the expectant youth whep he goes to the house to get his bride. Rice is the emblem of fruitful ness. An army of sparrows and other birds met a sudden and not to say peculiar death in Cincinnati. An ammonia tank exploded, filling the air with the fumes of the drug,thereby asphyxiating nearly all the small animals in the neighbor hood, together with a horse which re sponded to the alarm of fire sent out. The finest private collection of old almanacs in America is said to be owned by one of the justices of the Supreme Court of the United States. The rarest almanac in the country probably is one published by William Bradford in 11186. It is in the collection of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, and is valued at fouO. * At the hacienda of Rio Florido, Mex ico, there lives a man 120 years old r His wife is in her 111th year. They have been married ninety-five years. The owners of the hacienda and the people of the neighboring plantations anticipate! the pleasure of giving this aged Indian couple a great many presents on the 100th anniversary of their wedding day. There was a very peculiar suicide in Lancy park, Elmira, N. Y., the other morning. A rebin redbreast, deserted by its mate, sought to drown its misery in death. Taking a long string which he had picked up to put into its nest, he swung it around a bough, then wound it around his neck, and expired. The body hung in the tree all day, and many pedestrians gazed at it curiously. It. Ccmpton, postmaster of Yolo, 111., claims to have discovered a peculiar phenomenon in the Woods of Lake County. As described by him, it con sists of the natural ingrafting of a burr oak tree upon a white oak. The burr oak leans against the other from the ground up, and is dead. The dead trunk, however, seems to go right through that of the living white oak, and the branches of both varieties of tree, all green and vigorous, mingle to gether in about equal proportions. The white wild goose of the Pacific slope is a remarkable bird. An editor of a Riverside paper says that he once killed one. It took four bullets* from a 44-caliber Sharp’s rifle to bring the bird down at a range of seventy-five yards.. Each cartridge contains almost two grains of powder. All the bullets passed through the heart of the goose and lodged in the skin on the opposite side from where they went in. An at tempt was made to boil this bird. “Strange to say, the bullets were cooked to a jelly before any impression was made on the goose.” The Accomplished Police of Brazil. The streets of Carthageua, says a writer in the American Magazine , are, as in other Spanish-American cities, named alter the saints, battlefields and famous generals, but the houses are not num bered, acd it is difficult for a stranger to find one that he happens to want to visit. The police do duty only at night. During the day the citizens take care of themselves. Four policemen are sta tioned at the four corners of a plaza. Evervfifteen minntes a bell rings, which causesthe guardians of the city to blow their whistles and change post*?. By this system it is impossible for them to sleep on their beats. They are armed with lassos, and by the dexterous use of this formidable weapon they pinion the prowling thief when he is trying to es cape. They also have a short bayonet as an additional weapon. A Baby Killed by a Cat. The little three days’ old child of Henry Krocker, living on the corner of Martin and Market streets, was killed the other night by the family cat creep ing upon the baby and sucking its breath. The mother aud grandmother, who had watched and cared for the baby, fell asleep through sheer exhaus tion, and when they awoke they found the feline lying upon the child’s breast with its mouth close to the baby’s, suck ing its life breath away. A doctor was ssnt for, but when he came he pro nounced the little one dead. — Mdioauket 11 vieic. Fearfully and Wonderfully Made. One of the stories which has been cur rent in social circles at Washington lately is in regard to the remarkable make-up of a well-known young society woman. The mdbld in which she had been cast by an unknown fate was un satisfactory alike to herself and parents, who finally concluded to try the effects of foreign travel for her. After a long absence abroad the family returned and, to the astonishment of all who had pre viously known her, the daughter wad completely metamorphosed. From a tall, angular girl, she had not only be come well rounded, but buxom, With a noticeable broadening of the shoulders. After a while it leaked out that while in Paris the girl had been taken to a model maker, who, in consideration of a large sum, agreed to construct a wire figure of the desired proportions, whieh wad ingeniously made to open down the . back, and was of such flue, soft material that its presence would fail to be detect ed save by the keenest scrutiny. This wire cage necessitates, with evening dress, a band of velvet or oollar of some description, and as long as worn effect ually precludes tho idea of decollete gowns on the part of the wearer. As Summer comes, we may have to listen to the old story one more: “Where is my wandering boy to-night?” while tho poor boy is quietly enjoying the musk and watermelon-in your neighbor’s patch, provided he can find the npe ones, as he is raising them in the dark of the moon. A Common-Sense Remedy. In the matter of curatives what you want ia something that will do its work while you continue to do yours—a remedy thatwill give you no i..convenience nor interfere with y.iur bu-lness. Pnch a remedy is Allcock's Pob (,us J’I.ASTCHS. Thtse plaster-i are purely vegetable and abso utely harmless. They re quire no cliange of diet, and are not affected by wet or cold. Their action does not interfere with labor or busin -ss; you can toil and yet be cured while hard at work. They are so pure that tiie youugeet, the oldest, the m st delicate person of either sex can use them with great benefit. Beware of imitations, and do not be deceived by misrepresentation. Ask f jt Alucock’s, and let no explanation, cr solicitation induce you to aco-pt a sub stitute. “The King’s Daughters” now number 20,- 000 in the U. S. The society is to have a paper. WouAd you know the keen delight Of a wholesome appetite, Unrestrained by colic’s dire, Headache’s curse, or fever’s fire. Thoughts morose, or icy chills? Then use Dr. Pierre’s pills. Dr. Pierce’s Purgative Pelletts—the original and only genuine Little Liver Pills; 25 cents a viaL Before 600 Chicago waifs were taken on a picnic, their hair was cut and faces scrubbed. It will nay all who use Cotton Gins, to get .prices and testimonials of those A No. 1 man ufacturers, The Brown Cotton Gin Co., New London, Conn. They lead the world. The income of Ajidrew Carnegie, the iron manufacturer, is said to be $15,000 a day. VVhen a threatening lung disorder. Show s its first proclivity, Do not let It cross the border— Quell it with activity. Many a patient, young or olden. Owes a quick recovery All to Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery. Newspapers soaked in a solution of carbolic acid make a good plitg for rat holes. A Summer Medicine Summer’s heat debilitates both nerves and body, and Head ache, Sleeplessness, Ner vous Prostration, and an “all-played-out” sensation prove that Paine’s Celery Compound should be used how. This medi cine restores health to Nerves, Kidneys, Liver, and Bow els, and imparts life and energy to the heat prostrated system. Vacations or no vacations, Paine’s Celery Compound is the medi cine for this se.fsoq. It is a scien tific combination of the best tonics, and those who use it begin the hot summer days with clear heads, strong fierves, and general good health. Paine’s Celery Compound is sold by all druggists, $1 a bottle. Six for $5. ’JELLS, RICHARDSON & CO., Prop’s, Burlington, Vt K ~ ■ 1 1,1 AND Hot Weather Invigorator Do you want “ Inspirator? 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