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UNGER I NG.” Soldier* Who Feigned Sick ne»i loGol Out of thn Army. A Surgeon** Acoonnt of an Ait tn pt Tint wax Not BascaufuL A of thn Tenth” nays in tl*r Detroit I'rr-r Pr'u: It w«« »iippo<- 1 that bow and th n a volunteer would b coma •o disgusted with ntmy life, nnd «o hom - ■lg l . to • hi* friend*, thathu woo d take all n»k« of peril and degradation and desert his colors, lait few people bare Iwvn mode aware of tho great amount of malingering in the nervier! from IMO J to tho di»« of tho war. Th ru w> re mon who were too proud or too cowardly to deiu-rt, and yet who were determin' 1 to get out of th army. The only way open to them wa» to »ffc t nomn ailment, nnd of course I was sooner or later brought in to close contact with them. The first five ■ion discharged from my regiurnt for dis ability recovered so speedily after secur ing thnir discharge.* that 1 b cam ■ a butt •f ridicule. Indec I, two of them re mained about c imp and plied their pro fessions as gamblers, ami made no secret that they b id fooled nt". On" of my toughest cases was that of a private soldier named French. 110 had served from June, 1801, to April, 1802, and was well spoken of by his officers. He was a tidy man, enthusiastic in the line of duty, and had been selected for promotion. Ono day he attended sick call, captaining that Im had not been feeling well for throe or f< or days past. He had tho general look of a man un ler a shght fever. I gave him some med - cine nnd told him he would lie all right in a day or two, but next morning w .rd came to mo that he was ill in his tent. 1 went over to wo him and found liis fever increased and bis npp< lite one. 1 wos sur|«rised that Lite powders bad not checked th- fever, but pie c ilm I others and decide I not t > hav him reni n - I to the hospital fora day or two. lie had no complaint to make, mid this was jpeatl.’ in his fnvor. Next dny the fever was a little w >r<«- th in before, mid the nmn began to look pretty li .■ ■ ml. 1 ordered bis removal to the i gimental hospital, and wt myself about in u vigor ous manner to break the fever, which was dearly intermittent. A week from the day be w as taken sick 1 had made no progress, nnd was ulmiiiL to order bis r nioval to tho hospital nt A exandrm when I received a pointer. Ono of the nurses reported to mo that she had u ci dentally observed French slyly wasting his medicine*. 1 could hardly credit it in a in in like him, but decided to set n watch on his movements. In 24 hour- I was assured of several things. He wan, in the first place, eating only enough to barely sustain himself, although I could find no reason why he should not be hun gry when his fever was oil. He was delilM-ratcly wasting my medicines in stead of swallowing them, an I about once in six ho.its he xvas forcing himself to ■wallow Homething which was terribly disagreeable to him. During my next call he asked to bo s. nt to Alexandria, sud I said nothing to leal him to suspect that I ha<l any doubts of his being a lit |>a'icnt for tho hospital. 1 wanted to watch him a little longer. 1 left a new ■upply of miHiicine, which was so fixed that hi could t ike it himself. While he claimed to be very w cak, he w- is still able to move about and dross and undress Lima If. I) ring the day he made a pre tense of taking tho medicine, an I during the night he poured most of tho contents of the tumbler on the round. The next morning I gave orders to have him thoroughly searched, and the result justified our suspicious. The man waa maliugi ring, lb- had made himself Up a lot of pill- composed of government ao-p and rancid fat from government pork, and was taking one about every four hours More than that, he was ■wallowing the juice of plug tobacco in ■utllcient quantity to sicken n horse, and not one drop of mv medicine was pa-sing hi* lips. Wo had such a pl.in case on him that he could not deny it, nor did ho attempt to. 1 left new nv dicinc with him and gave him thre? days to get well, and before the time was up he had re turned to duty. 1 made no report of his ease to hi* captain, not wish ng to de grads' or disgrace him, but in tho course of a Couple of week* In- tired a bullet in to my tent one night, kn . king the cap off my head, an 1 then mad. a break t> run the guard and de-ert. lie was fired up n by two nt ■:>, and both their bullets infl eted mortal w.m i la h -pair Turned to l.xuila ion. A life insurance policy may iot cover a mu ntude of sins, but it seem* to con done some minor one's in a widow's eyes, loc-irtling to the Chicago I'rifvu: “A young widow in Waukesha, whose husband had been dead for a month,and whom si had alw ys supp sed to b< free from miall vices, wa* overhauling bis clothe* the other dny. She found a large plug of t. linxsi in a co.it pocket. “Oh. George! Ge !’ die exclaimed despairingly, “you and I si never meet in the good world!" In another pocket ■he found a life roitrw po. ,y or $5 000, of which she hnl before known nothing, and she bur*: forth exultantly; ••Oh, yes, we will! we will! H tven will forgive him his one little fault!*’ Baath** W •ap’ina- I saw the other day, »ay» a w riter ia the Washington Herald, two of the most curious and interesting relic* of the greatest tragedy in American history. j They are the pistol with which John Wilke* Booth sltot President Lincoln and the dagger ho held in bis band when ho leaped from the box to the stage of the theatre, crying “Sic semper tyrannis.” These relies are preserved in a bureau of one of the great d'-partmi nt* of the gov ernment, Mi l with them is the bullet that struck Mr. Lincoln down. Tire pis tol is the most interesting of tho lot. It is one of tho kind known as tho derrin ger, made iu Philadelphia, which wax , very famous all through the South and Southwest thirty years ago. The one ; in question is of beautiful workmanship. I Its barrel is only two inches in length, j and the bullet weighs about a quarter of an ounce. Tho entire length of the , woa|>on is but four inches. Its mount ing is of ilyer, and the lock is one of tho finest and most perfect pieces of | workmanship T have ever seen, oven in i these weapons, which lire very expensive and elaborate. Tho bullet is much bat- 1 tend, and was evidently driven iato tho niiirz. <■ (forth - pitol is a muzzle-loader) by the use of a m ill t and iron loading rod. Considering the heavy charge of • powder un b-r tho bullet before it w’as | fired, the latter mu-t have b - n only half , an inch from the muzz, e, and could easi ly have been touched with one’s little finger inserted into the barrel. The m irk* of the rifling in tho barrel are j clearly vis.bio on the bullet, which was ; very much fl itt--tied from striking the . skull. Altogether, a more interesting and ghastly curio I have never seen. While han Ilin/ the pistol I looked at the end of the breech’. I found there a reccp aclo for pereu sion - caps, which hud evidently been ov. rlookcd, and on openin'; it I found a solitary cap, which Booth had evidently put there him-e f, intending, if by any chance the one on : the tube, of th pi 10l exploded without firing it, to le v i lotb.er ready to hh hand. Scene nt nu Ape’s Doatti-B -d. In his r cently publishe 1 treatise or, the nnthri.p >id apes, Prof. Hartmann ol ttie Berlin I .liver, ty tells n touching story of a large m oikcy which belonged 1 to tin- Zoological (’.miens of Dresden. - M -ifitca, .is she was named by Herr S. hops, the Director of tin- gar lens, war a pcmonngi) of polite manners. Site 1 would blow her nose with a haudker chief, put on her own boots, wring out tho linen, steal keys and opon locks. Hiie had a cup of tea every morning, and one of cocoa every evening, and at any ■ 1 time would fiil h r own cup or tumble! ! without spilling a drop- suggesting al once a sense of propriety and of appreci- I nt ion of tho b verage. Her death wax quite pathetic. After some years’ ex|M>- 1 rienco of the Dresden climate, he show cd symptoms of consumption; and, if un 1 able to re.iliz > the progress of the disease, she w»s quite conscious when it wiu ■ drawing to a close. She would scarcely 1 allow her friend, D . Sehopf, who nurs cd her throu /hout her illness, to leave her sight. When tho end approached, | feeling her forces ebbing, she threw her i arms around his neck, kissing him re . pent- dly, held out her h ind to grasp hi* and fell back lifeless. A Relic of Jefferson. The flat little stucco bui.ding at O and Fourteenth streets, which is being pulled down this week, has a history. It it said that President Jefferson ojiened r. public school tli 're iu 1805, after his sec ond election, relinquishing its use as i ' stable for that purpose. It was ther< that he kept his horse and perhapa his carriage, or wheeled vehicle of some sort —no doubt the same hi-toric horse on which ho rode from Monticello to the Capita', and then back again on the morn | iug of his inauguration and rode up tc the Capitol, where, tradition says, ho dismounted and hitched him to the pick et fence till after the ceremony. Tho reason why Jefferson rode on horseback, by the way, does u. t appear Ito h iv. boon his ity or his <. on* omy, for h was both an extravagant and a ceremonious man ; but because it was at th it time about the only way in which a nrm could get through the mud of Vir ginia to Washingtm, and through the knee-deep mud of Pennsylvania avenue 1 to the Capitol.— H'r.xAi J'oet. The Excellence of Farm Life. It is a common complain: that the fam ; and farm life are not appreciated bv our ! people. W< long for the more elegant pursuit-or the ways and fashions of th* town. But the farmer has the most sane and natural occupation, and ought tc tind life sweeter, if less highly seasoned, than any other. Ho alone, strictly s;> aking, has a home. How can a man t ike root and live without landt H« writes his history upon his field. How j many ties and resources he has; his ‘ friendships with his cattle, his team, his dog, hi* trees; the satisfaction in hu ' grow ng crops in hi* improved fields- I his intimacy with nature, with bird and ' beast, and with the quickening elem. n , tai forces. Cling to the farm, make much *of it, bestow your heart, your brain j upon it, so that it shall savor of vou ar.d I radiate your virtues after your day’s I work is done. Cesxfwry PAWNSHOPS. How These Institutions are Conducted in France. Ban En’irely by tha G ivernment for the Belief of the Impecuniotu. In the centre of a busy commercial quarter of Paris—in the Rue des B ones M intcaux—is a large five-story bud ling with its windows securely barred and wired, as if something precious were contained within, with the ever promi nent words “Liberty, Equality, Frater nity” carved on its walls, nnd over the doorway of which, just under the tricolor, may b- read in large gold letter ing “Mont de Piete." Several republi can guard* walk about the two large courts within, nnd there are other signs of officialisin, and that the building in question is national property. It is, in deed, the headquur rrs of the national pawn shop. With us, when on unex pected crisis in one’s financial affairs leads him to temporarily get rid of some of his personal ]>rop.:rty, he euphonisti cally tells his friends that he has been to his “uncle’s.” A Frenchman in similar straits visits his “aunt,” whose real name throughout France is the Mont de Piete. A Frenchman will not slink away sneak ing y to his “aunt,” but, when necessity requires it, will visit her fearlessly and openly ns he would tlie E-compte de Paris or the Credit Lyonnais The Aloni de Piete is indeed a bank, without capi tal and without div.d nd. Connected with the principal Mont de Piete there arc twenty auxiliary bureaus throughout t’uo town; and it is perhaps about the only institution in Paris which is open all the year round, fete days in cluded. The director of the concern is appointed by the Minister of the Interior, and the administration is under the di rection of the Prefect of the Seine. Eight per cent, is charged as interest on the articles pledged. This charged is un questionably high, hut the expin;.-sit hai to meet are considerable. The money thin acquired goes to pay all the ex pen x of management, the erection and m iint 'iianc • of buildings, etc. At the end of a year or fifteen months, if the pledger docs not respond to a communi cation he receives from the Mont, and re new his pledge or tike out his property, it is sold. Within the general adminis tration of tho Mont de Piete there is an army of officials called the “commissaires priseur*,” who value the property pledged. During last year there were 15C3 sales of unclaimed property, which realized 217 987 francs. The commissaires priseurs look after these sales, and their charge is five per cent. Should the property sold bring more than it was originally valued at, the owner gets tho difference, but he does not lose through depreciation of value. Articles may be renewed nd infinitum. At the immense storehouse in the Rue des Blancs there are articles that have been renewed for over forty years. One antiquated um brella has beeu there since 182 S, during which time its value has been paid four or five times over in interest. As a dif ferent colored ticket is given each time a pledge is renewed, the umbrella has 'ong since exhausted all the colors of the rainbow, and on the last occas’on when the ticket was presented for renewal, tho Monte do Piete ma lea present of tho venerable para/iluie to the proprietor. After all the expenses of the Monte do Piete have been met, the balance, if any, goes to the public assistance —the relief of the poor. There are between forty and fifty Monte de Pietes in France, and all are managed on the same principle, and are under tho care of the municipal councils. Outside the national institu tion, pawubroking is prohibited in France. A man was recently caught who carried on a successful business by buying up pawn tickets, and he will in due course be punished. The pawnshop is an ancient institu tion. As early ns 1198 one was estab lished in Liege. In the year 1462 several establishments, called Monti di Pieta, were started in Italy under the care and protection of the church All the early Monts de Piete were connected with churches or hospitals, and were a .pecics of charitable bulks, which charged uo interest. Pall JJi.’Z (I t; tt,-. S liding Flowers by Mail. Flowers to be sent by mail should bo cut in the morning before the sun has had much effect upon them. The best pack ing material is their own foliage, or in stead of that any good foliage. The best package is a tin box or case. Place a bit of moist brown paper at the bot tom, lay in the fl we;s so that they will snugly fill the box, put another piece of damp paper over all, and inclose with the cover. If oiled piper is at hand the box can be lined with it, and no damp pap r will then be needed. A paper wrapper about the box, securely tied, completes the package. Damp cotton is often tied about the stems of the flowers, but usually this supply of moist ure is too great for them when closed from the air, and causes decay. He—“ How do you like Signor Wil kinsonio’s voice! B-autiful, is it not!” She—“l don’t think so. I prefer yours. But then, you know, lam pecu liar I” Meollhy A’egioes. John W. Cromwell, a negro journalist in Philadelphia, ha* compiled an inter esting exhibit of the business condition of bis race in America. The Carolinas take the lead in the number of well-to-do negroes. North Carolina has twenty who are worth from 110,000 to $30,000 each. In South Caro lina the negroes own $10,000,000 worth of property. In Charleston fourteen men represent SIB,OOO, and Charles C. Leslie is worth $12,000. The family of Noiset tes, truck farmers, are worth $150,000. In the city savings bank the negroes have $124,026.35 on deposit. One man has over $5,000. He recently bought a SIO,OOO plantation and paid $7,000 in cash. In Pniladelphia John AfcKee is worth half a million. He owns 400 houses. Several are worth SIOO,OOO each. The negroes of New York own from five to six million dollars worth of real estate. P. A. White a wholesale drug gist, is worth a quarter of a million and has an annual business of $200,000, Catherine Black is worth $150,000. In Nt w Jersey the negroes own $2,- 000,(KM worth of real estate. Baltimore has more negro home-owners than any other large city. Nineteen men are worth a total of SBOO,OOO. John Thomas, the wealthiest, is worth about $150,000. Less thana hundred negroes in Washing ton are worth a total of $1,003,000. In Louisiana tlie negroes pay tax on $15,000,000 in New Orleans, and $30,- 1 000,000 in the state. lonie Lafcn, a French quadroon, is worth $1,100,000. The Mercer Brothers, clothiers, carrj a stock of $300,000, Missouri has twenty seven citizens worth a million dollars in amounts ranging from $20,000 to $250,- 000. The richest colored woman of the south, Amanda Eubanks, made so by the will of her white father, is worth SIOO,- 000, and lives near Augusta, Ga. Chica go, the home of 18,000 colored people, has three colored firms in business, whose proprietors represent $20,000 each, one $15,000 and nine SIO,OOO. The Eastlake furniture company is worth $20,000. A. J. Scott has $35,000 invested in the livery business, and is worth SIOO,- 000, including a well stocked farm in Michigan. Mrs. John Jones and Rich ard Grant are worth §70,000 each. A. G. White, of St. Louis, formerly sur veyor to the Anchor line of steamers, after financial reverses, has, since the age of forty-five, retrieved his fortunes and accumulated $30,000. Mrs. AL Carpenter, a San Francisco colored wo man, has a bank account of $50,000, and Mrs. Mary Pleasant has an income from eight houses in Lan Francisco, a ranch near San Mateo and SIOO,OOO in govern ment bonds. In Marysville, Cal., twelve individuals arc owners of ranches valued in the aggregate at from $150,000 to SIBO,OOO. One of them, Airs. Peggy Breden, has besides a bank account of $40,000. These stastics show that the brother in black is making some headway iu the world. He is learning to “tote his own skillet.” A Chicken Killing -Match. A novel and bloody contest took place recently in Detroit between George A. Fisher and Al. Dutnphey, rival chicken executioners. Fisher had offered to wager SIOO that die could dress 200 chickens better and in less time th n Dumphey would require to do the job, and the latter disputed the claim to the extent of covering the bet. The day was fixed for the contest, and much interest was manife ted, private bets aggregating SI,OOO and over being made on the result. Articles of agree ment were drawn up, the requirements being that the chii’kens should be kept in crops containing fifty each, and that half should be fowls of mature years and the remainder spring chickens. The chickens were killed with a sharp knife, which was plunged into their jug ular, nnd were then thrown into a vat of boiling water. They were passed to the contestants, who denuded them of their feathers. Each fowl was closely scrutin ized by the umpires on both sides and by the referee. The work was har I, and the excitement increased when Fisher took the lead Dumphey made a strong effort to catch up with his opponent, but was unsuccessful. Fisher dressed the last of his 200 birds in forty-four min utes. Dumphey finished twenty-one minutes later. Fisher’s friends say that their man can outdo any man in America in the chicken dressing business, and they are willing to back him for any amount. Another match will probably result from the <lis pute. A Cyc.’onc Fnffercr. “Here, leave those apples alone! Y’ou’re the second tramp that has tried to steal them to-day!” “I wasn't trying to steal them. I was just looking at them, and thinking of the last apples I saw iu the cyclone dis trict, in Kansas." ‘•Was you in a cyclone?” “I was, for a fact. All alone in a cab in. No article of furniture but a well trimmed lamp.” "Case of well-trimmed lamp and well- ■ limbed tramp, eh?’ “It was, when I saw the cyclone com ing.” “What did you do?" "What the lamp did—light out.” Pastime. "I sav Napoleon crossed the Alps in 1800.” "And I say in 1802.” “You dejicnd on memory.” “No, I dont. I depend on pastime.” “Pastime I" “Cert inly. Ain’t history a mere mat ter of pastime?” ■*». Scnvenffcrs of Importance. Next to the b<Mels, or rather in conjunction xtith th’ in. the k dneys and bladder are tho n»>'*t injjH rtant scavengers of the System. Th- y purify the blood and carry off its refuse, preventing rht uinatisn . dr p-y. Bright > d ~- ea>e and diaf»et<s by their •'•tire cleansing s»ork. H.-.s:citer's Stomach B tters. when tl e kidne> • ev nee a tender cv to relax the activity ot their important fnnct.on. renews it, and thus are to renal ma.adie*. the nv*t uiincnlt t cepe wi’h. and winch superinduce a fright ful Rm of Udl.y tissue, stamina and flesh. When thermal organs exhibit the < hte-'t s -np’om< of inaction, they ehouid at once re ceive the needful stimvius from this 'afesL •ureet and p ra-antest fdi .re xc-*. Chilisand lever, dvspape a. constipation, liver cvmpla.nt aud debility are also remedied by it. i Wet acd »iy. When the Board of Trade of Chicago moved from the old business center there was a rush for the old offices vacated by the njbo'* of commerce. After awhile, the new tenants found the high-priced rooms didn't pay, and sought all kinds of excuses to move. Among these unfortunates were Stubbs and Stobbs. Each had rented an office, | Stubbs in the basement, Stobbs in the attic. When the renting agent came around, Mr. Stubbs announced bis inten ■ tion of moving. “But you can’t doit, you know,” said the agent. “Why not ?” “We've got you on a year’s lease.” “Well, I have reasons for abandoning the case.” i “What reason ?” ! “This basement room is damp. The i glue in the desks got so moist they fell to pieces. The books are all moldy, and I’ve got rheumatism from it. I'd ought to sue you for damages.” The agent looked scared, muttered something about “being sorry, move, of course, if you must,” and went to see Air. Stobbs. Stobbs surprised him with a similai declaration of intention to move. “What’s your complaint?” growled the agent. “Dampness here, too, 1 sup pose ?” “No, sir, just the reverse. Why, sir, the sun has blistered the floor till it’s all out of plumb, my new desk is all scorch ed, and I’ve got no blood left, with the dry rot in this place.” “You got very badly deceived by two j very shrewed men,” a friend told the agent, a day or two later, “Those scamps got rich on those offices.” “How so ? They said wet and dry— F “Yes, Stubbs was in the basement next door to a saloon. Kept full all the tim<-, and got so jovial that everybody liked him. Business boomed on account of liis rare good-nature.” “And Stobbs ?” “He was dry—very dry. Basement I saloon eight flights down. Kept sober fora month from necessity, reformed, and saved a farm in drinks in two weeks 1” Too Sure. I belonged to a company that made the famous raid around AlcClellan’s lines before Richmond, under General Stuart. It had been arranged we should divide, and, taking different routes, meet at New Kent Court House, the intersection :of several roads. I was among the first party to arrive. We found that this lit tle village was a depot for large supplies for the Union army. They were so con fident of their security that they did not think of looking beneath our dust-laden clothes for Confederates. AVc were toe few in number to take possession, and must lie low until joined by others of out party, so we straggled around making I observations. There were several finely furnished sutler stores, and one of these, with twe of my domrades, I entered. As we stepped to the bar, which was finely and abundantly stocked,the proprietor asked: “Champagne, gentlemen?" “Certainly, and some of your finest havanas,” we replied. “May I ask to what cavalry you be long,’ he continued. “We? Oh, we are a new company sent out after that rebel Stuart,” | “You do not mean to say he is any where near here, do you? Os course he is not. lie would not dare venture here, with the whole of AlcClellan’s army in front of us.” “We continued quietly sampling the fluids, while he continued: “I’m not a fighting man myself, but I’d show him how that case could speak, . if I ever set eyes on him,” pointing to a ease of fine re vol vers exhibited for sale. , Just then there was an unusual noise without, and we caught a glimpse of the I remainder of our command, and we said: I “You had better set out a few more I glasses, and open another bottle or two; those are some of our friends. Yes, there is no use fooling longer, we are . Stuar’s cavalry.” He, as well as several finely dressed loafers, was too much astonished to make the slightest resistance, and we were soon in possession. “Gone into the coal business, eh Jones?’ “Yes, Smith.” “Wholesale or retail.” “Either. I make it a rule to sell my coal in lots to soot.” Small Boy (in a shop)—“l wanttogei a Christmas present for my mother.” Proprietor—‘ How would a pair of slip i pers do, sonny?” Small Boy—“ Have ' you got 'em made of cloth, an’ without any heels ?” Proprietor—“ Yes.” Small Boy (eagerly)—Gimme a pair.” Architect Edmond Lecendre, 419 Sutter str- et, San Francisco. Ca .. states that having «nffe el tor a long time with a severe cough, and failing to obtain any relief from docton and the numerou, preparations he took, he I became alarmed. Tried Red Star Cough Cura and one bottle entirely cured him. Mrs. Benedict, best known through het fashion journal, rot only edits it, but supplies n half zen columns weekly for one of Phila de phia's daily papers. She also does tlie ed. orial writ ng lor a fashion journal other wise edited end managed by a gentleman. Mr. Ed. >■. Wells. Thetis P. O„ Stevens Co., Wash. Territory, was entirely cured of rheu matism by the use of St. Jacobs Oil. He says: "I consider t a wonderful remedy and will always speak a good word for it.” Grace K n.-, tlie new writer to whom Dud ley Warner is acting as literary godlather, is both eccentric and untidy in her attire. Her liair usua Iy looks as it it had been brushed the wrong way. and her iiat seems to be con stantly defying the laws ot gravitation. Ha rv 'i> write to Ha lett a Co., Poruau xMa ne, will learn of a genuine om. \ouc It earn from Soto and av ’ Youc * n 'T'-esorkanlhvo Hen ‘.‘"■ever jo : are locale !. Full par ticulars no; he sen; you free. Some Lave earmd o-er -.0 .a a da.. Capital not nee led. ’ '.u »re su.te 1 n bu-i ess iree. Both sexes. lm “en-e p odts sure ,o • those who start » once. 1 oar urst act should be to write lor particulars. Stop that Cough that tickling n the throat 1 stop ih-it ( onsumptive <. ond t nn ’ You be cun <i! You can’t afford to wait! Dr. Kilm. r’s < ough Cure [Conxuniphrr otfl will do it quickly and permanently. 25 cents. Why go limpin? around with vour boots run over, when Lyon's Heel Stiffeners will keep them straight? Piso'9 Remedy for Catarrh is arreeable to ns . It is not a liquid or a snuff. stkv. DANGERCC 2_DRI GS. Hew A |, Sucb A gentlemat"who hU’7p£X7he sumnw abroad, said to uur reporter, that th. t tf.at imwewel him most of ail wus tbe "‘“J ter of bolutay* om encounters abroad.s the ittl. anxiety the people di. m conduct of busino.* a faus. "Men here, he aakl "that they work for years wu ? out a day of!; in Europe that Would te cos' sfdei ed t» crime. “ Lu °- .. Mr H H w S£ner, who was preeent alts, time, mid: "Thui i* the first bu umT! years that I have not spent on theater Been too bu iy. ” wr * ‘•1 hen, 1 suppose you have been adverts ing ex tens’velyf* ru *‘ "Not at all We have always rioted our laboratory during Julv AuimZ and September, out this tumnier’wa ba kept it running day and night to TO|T v th! demand, which lias teem three times gt'w.tZ, than ever before in our history at this son ’ •‘How do you account for this!’’ ■ The iucrease has come from the unu-e, tai recoffnition »r tJtr care, -lime• of ou , preparation’. We have teen neariv years before tho public, and the sales an conjrtaatly wreaslng, while cur new.paue. adveriising is con-tanlly dirnini>ih,>ui Why, high scientific and med cal nutli ri ties now publicly concede that our Warner's safe cure is tlie only scientific *pecifi c so , kidney and liver diseams, and fur all ths many direotes caused by them " ! ‘ lias e you evidence of th s’” “Abundance! Only a few wteksa-oDr J. L. Stephens, of I ebaiion, Ohio, a specialist for the cure ot narcotic, etc.,habits, told me that a num. er of eminent scieuLlic medied men hid b en eiperimentiug for tears test ing and analysing ail known remedies for the kidneys and Iver; for, as you may be aware, the e tcessive u e ot a l narcotics and stimulants destroys tho e organs, and until they can bo rest rei to health the habits cannot be broken up! Among the iuvesti gators svere such men as J. M Hall. M D i resideut of tho State Board of Health of lowa, and Ale - ander Neil, M D., Professor of Surgery in the Col ege of Physicians and Surgeons and president of tho Academy ot Medicine at Columbus, who, after erhaustiy, inquiry, reported that there was no remedy known to schools or to scientific inquiry equal to Warner’s safe care:” 1 "Are many persons addicted to the use of deadly drugs i” “There are forty millions of people in the w orld who use opium alone, an I there are many hundreds of thousands iu this counirv who are victims of morph .ne, opium quinine and cocaine. They think they have uo such habit about them—so mnsy'reoj-le ar.’ un conscious victi us of these habits They hare pains and symptoms of what they call ma aria and other diseases, when in reality it is the demand in the system for theeo terrible dregs, a ilen.asd that is caused largely by physi ians’pres ription* which contain so many dangerous drugs, and strong spirits, and one that must lie answered or silenced in tho kidneys and li-.-er by what Stephens sis the only kidney and liver specific. Healso saysthatinodciar* opium and other drug caters, if they sustain the kidney and liver vigor with that great remedy, can keep up these habits in modera tion." ‘Well doesnot this discovery give you a new revelation of he power of safe cure: ' “No sirjfor years I have tried to convince the public that neurl'/ all Ute diseases of the human system originate iu some disorder of the kidney’s or liver, and hence I have logically declared that if our specific were used, over ninety per cent, of tho e ailments would disappear. The liver and kidneys seem to absot b these poisons from the blood and become depraved and diseased. “When these eminent authorities thus pub licly admit that there is no remedy Like ours to enable the kidneys and liver to throw off the frightful effe- ts of all deadly drugs and excessive use of stimulants it is an admission of its power as great as any one < ould desire; for if through it* influence alone the op u n, morphine, quinine, cocaine and liquor habits <au be overcome, what higher testimon al of its spe ific power could b ■ asked for f" “You really telieve then, Mr. Warner, tliat the ma ority of di-eases come from kid ney and liver complaints ?” "Ido! tVh-n you see a person moping and grovelingabout, half dead and half all e, year after year, you may surely put him down as having some kidney and liver trouble.” ‘ Tho other day I was talking with Dr. Fowler, the eminent oeuli-rt ot this city, who said that half the patients who < anie to him for eye treatment were affected by a Ivan ed kidney disease. Now many people wonder why in middle life their eye sight becomes bo noor. A thorough course of treatment with Warner’s sa'e euro is what they need more than a pair of eye glasses. The kidney poison iu t. e blood always attack .the weak est part of the body; with some it affects the eyes; with others the heal; with others the stomach or the lungs, or r.'ieiimnflcdisorder follows and neuralgia tears them to pieces, or they lose the ; outers of taste, smell, or be come i nz'otmt in other functions of the body. What man would m t give his all to have the vigor of youth at command?" “The intelligent physician knows that these complaintsale but s'imploinst they aie not tlie disorder, nnd they are symptoms not of disease of the head, the eye or stoma-h, or ot virility, ne essarily, but of the kidney poison in the bh-od and they may prevail and no pain oc- ur in the ki Inevs. ” It is not strange that the enthusiasm which Mr. Warner displays in his a|>pre iation of his own remedy, which restored him to health when the do-tors said he could not live six months, should become infectious and that the entire world should pay tribnt* to its power. For, as Mr. Warner says the sab* are constantly- in-reasing, while hi* news; aper ach ertising is constantly dimin ishing This speaks volumes in p-raise of th* extraordinary merits ot his prepaiationa Such is Life. A young man and a young woman lea* over the front gate. They are lovers. It is moonlight. He is loath to leave, as the parting is the last. He is about to gc away. She is reluctant to see him depart. They swing on the gate. “I’ll never forget you,” he says, “and if death should claim me my last thought will be of you.” “I’ll never forget you,” she sobs. “I t never see anybody else or love them at long as Hive.” 3’hey part. Six yeats later he returns. His sweet heart of former years has married. U l6 ! meet at a party. Between the dancet the recognition takes place. “Let me see,” she muses, with h r fu beating a tattoo on her pretty hand. “was it you or your brother who was m? old sweathe rt ?” “Reallv, I don’t know,” he rays “Probably my brother.” The conversation ends. The Lost Cord. “Hear that piano—hear that piano. “Yes.” . . “Old Snagsby's daughter. They j us do it to tantalize me.” “Why, it seems a very nice song- ' ID Lost Chord,’ I believe.” “Is that the name of it?” <4 Yes, n < “Aleaner and meaner! The chcva them Snagsbys is something tf ' rr ‘ L ■ Here the old man »tole half my last night, and his daughter’s -in about the lost cord, right under noses I” Chawley—“Who’s the old you n dded to Fwed?” Fwed ' • " the old chap over there? Ob,that ss - ro of mine.”