Bloomington Progress, Volume 21, Number 33, Bloomington, Monroe County, 12 October 1887 — Page 4

Matters and Things in Which Our Fair Readers Are Interested.

NUMEROUS SWEET MORSELS.

A Little Humor, a Bit of Poetry, and Some Brcerg Gossip About Modest Maidens and Giddy Girls.

When Wummem Grate OUL

"When woman begins to show her age the first part to lose its firm, youthful contour is the face and ohin, then the neck and bust, and no amount of alum-water -washes nor "astringent pomades" will restore firmness to the

flabby muscles, and it then becomes

necessary to look about for some other beauty that nature spared a little longer. The upper part of the arms and the back keep their whiteness and delicacy long after the rest of the woman is passe. For that reason was the T-shaped back invented, and therefore were sleeveless wants made which leave the arm exposed up above the shoulder. Long gloves bide many a wrinkled hand and withered forearm, and the modestly high front of the waist veils the faded bust, while the black velvet ribbon tied tightly around the throat retains the loose flesh in its snug embrace, while it whitens the

rest of the neck by contrast, and it

also sustains the baggy doable chin, together with the "wrinkle annihilator," which is made of alum, paraffine, and a little sweet almond oil. The Argonaut. JL Xmmmt CMqWi First Omaha Burglar I tell you it's awful Hie way filings are in New England, twenty or thirty women to every

eres, and holds the writer not ouly in

contempt but in her power. No young

girl can be sure that her corre ipomlent

is not merely amusing himself with

her; and it is often the case that her

letters are unwelcome and a nuisance,

and he does not check them and does not reply to them, not from interest in her, but mere manly chivalry. Har

per's Bazar.

Giving the Ofrla a start. All over Germany exist what are

called "sparoassen" (saving banks),

which correspond in a measure to the endowment plan of the Am wan as

surance companies. The best Known is the "Wilhelmcasse," named aftei tho

emperor, who is its patron. At the birth of a girl the father and mother

insure her (kaufen sie em) m such a

casse for as mnch as they are able to bestow everv year on the future of

their new-born baby girl. The amount

is paid annually. The casse Jays out the money in behalf of the insured, at interest, chiefly in real estate. In this way the money accumulates,

and at 18, or her majority, tho

girl is the possessor of a snug little

capital. This will serva her to study any favored profession, go to some good conservatory, or start in business; and last, but not least, buy her trous

seau, if she has a chance to follow woman's truest mission t Now, why can

not well-to-do American women estab

lish such a way of providing for their

less fortunate sisters? What a blessed

gift for a godmother to a poor little girl such an insurance would be! I truly believe it would give zeal and encouragement to many true, poor parents if, by this small economy they could help to provide for their dear ones. It is better than a life insurance, for it takes away the "sting of death;" all may live and enjoy the fruit of their economy ! How much better a yearly outlay would be, for people in moder

ate circumstances, than in costly toys

and extravagant dress, by which children are brought up to expectations. North American Review.

Second Omaha Burglar I suppose so. All the men have come West. "Yes, that's how it is." "Did yon get much boodle there ?"

"Yes; but I had a narrow escape once. I noticed a lot of the finest diamonds you ever saw on a Boston girl just going out of the house to a

lecture or something, and I watched my

chance and got in and hid under her bed. You see I was thinkin' she would be, so interested in the lecture she went

to that she wouldn't think to look

around for burglars, you know. " "Yes."

"But when she came in the first thing

she did was to look under the bed, and

there she saw me." "Did she scream or fnmk?"

"She just grabbed me with both

hands and held on like grim death." ' "Eh? How did you get away?"

"I explained that I was already

married and she let me go." Omaha

World, Be. Zeaa A&vix to jTmmp man. In her forthcoming book Mrs. Han

cock says: "How well I remember

Gen. Robert E. lee, then a Major, who

was stationed there at that time. He

was the beau ideal of a soldier and

gentleman. When bidding us goodbye and godspeed upon the eve of our departure he said to me: "I understand that you contemplate deserting

post, which is at your husband's

and that you are not gomg to

California with him. If you will par

don me, i snould lite to give you a little advice. You must not think of doing this. As one considerably older than Hancock, and having had greater

experience, I consider it fatal to i

furore happiness of young married people upon small provocation to live

apart, either for a short or long time,

The result is invariably that they cease

to be essential to each other. Now,

promise me that you will not permit

him to sau without you.' "The sequel shows how faithfully

sought to follow that noble admonition

and .how after, in my varied experience,

I had occasion to transmit to others his

disinterested, truthful convictions.

With many regrets we bade adieu to a host of friends, most of whom I never

saw again. Not so with my husband,

however. He met them face to face on the battlefield in less than three

yean." Hmh LtUar-Writer.

to

A habit very common with a number

of oar thoughtless young ladies who do a great many things quietly which

they would not like to have known

home a habit deserving of the strongest condemnation is that of promiscuous

correspondence with gentlemen,

whether the gentlemen be married or single. The young ladies who find

pleasure in this habit use their pens on any pretext that turns up, and some

times on no pretext at all. We are not

really sure this docs not eome

under the head of an undesirable

habit than sin, for there is an delicacy about it quite amounting

immodesty, of which no girl who re

spects nerseii or wno aesires ine respect of others will be guilty. These young letter-writers, however, generally get a fit reward for their thoughtless

ness or their culpability in the end.

For if their correspondent is a man of systematic habits their letters are docketed and ticketed, and his clerks

have as much of a laugh over them

they wish; and if he is not a sys

tematic man, then those letters are

the mercy of any and every one who chooses to waste time in reading them. And if their correspondent is a martied man, then his possession of their letters, even of the most trivial kind, places the writers at a disadvantage. Sooner or later, too, in that case, the letters fall into the hands of his wife, who, long after the brief correspondence has been done with, usually remains mistress of the situation, reads jawfeUjer tLt wicfcodaoTs with clear

WJkcft tHe M Engaged, Society is very much to blame for its

readiness to declare an engagement off without sufficient reason, and to cir

culate rumors prejudicial to the gen

tleman if the engagement is broken.

This has often led to the final disruption of relations which might otherwise have terminated in a happy marriage. Unfortunately in an age of gold, money has become an important factor in modern matrimonial engagements. But plenty of young hearts find each other out, and despite the woes of civilization, the good old fashion of marrying for love is not yet extinct. Once engaged, the happy pair should avoid all public demonstrations

of affection, except that they might walk together arm in arm, and the young lady may drive out with her affianced with a servant behind. She must not, however, go to the opera or theater with him alone; she must have a chaperon if she would consult the prejudices of society.

An engaged girl should not put on

airs, oome assume a ameroni manner

when engaged.

Disdain and scorn ride sparkling in Her eye, Misprizing what they look on ; and her wit Values herself so highly that to her

AU matters else seem weak. ' She cannot love

27or toiao bo shape nor- project nor affeotion.

She is no self-endearer.

She has the air of a victorious gen

eral who rides into a captured city.

Fortunately ssch conduct is not usual, but it is by no means impossible. Then, again, an engaged girl's conduct toward the family into which

she is about to enter should be most

amiable and respectful. Some women

have but to smile and bow to conquer the world; there are others who must study long and patiently to achieve a eood manner. The worse manner is

born of a coarse indifference and a self

sufficient arrogance. Breeding, cultivation, and manners come from the heart and mind. She is the precious daughter-in-law who comes into a fam

ily bringing all these as her dowry ;who

treats her future family with even

more circumspect politeness than she

would her own; who is so enchanting,

so sympathetic, that the family do not wonder that Charles fell in love, and they all welcome this new addition with

almost the enthusiasm of a lover.

When an engagement is announced

the family of the lover all call on that lady. The announcement should come from the mother of tie gentleman. As soon as is convenient and proper there

should be an invitation extended by the family of the young man to that of the young woman. She then becomes an

autocrat; everything is referred to her.

She goes out with her future mother-

in-law or sisters, and is one of them, in fact, though not in name ; she can visit them at their house, but she must never travel alone with her lover. Our language is very deficient. We have

no Word to represent fiance and fiancee ;

"my daughter is engaged" is a very

awkward phrase; "my daughter's beau" is old fashioned; "my daughter's young man" is very countrified; "my daugh

ter's lover" is scarcely a proper phrase, so we have to beat about the bush unless we adopt the French word, for the sake of convenience.

A fiance gives his fiancee a ring, a

diamond generally, or ruby set with diamonds. He may also give her a sapphire or a turquoise. The etiquette to be observed by a young man to

wards' his future bride may very safely be left to the intuitions of his heart

Oh the tramp rags and dirt The best thing on record is the deed of a corner lot. When looking for lodgings inquire within, or go without. A mushroom a poor man's Btomacli. JVeiotnan Independent. It was the lady who thought she was going to swoon who had a faint suspicion. The sorghum manufacturer may be pious, but he frequently raises cane. Newman Independent. There should be four ghosts in Hamlet,, according to a line in Gray's Elegy "The rude four fathers of the Hamlet sleep. " A fashion item states that girls are braiding their street dresses. But old Father Time is putting on frills, too, for he abrades the rocks. Sitings. A two-stoby brick house fell on a Chicago reporter, and when they dug him out of the debris he had a twocolumn article written about the accident, Newman Independent. "Why didn't you stop?" said a fat passenger as he clambered onto the oar. "Ye didn't signal," replied the driver. "1 stood on the corner. " "Well, I'm no mind reader," said the driver, lashing his horses. A bow-legged man was standing be

fore the stove warming himself. A small boy watched him intently for a while and then he broke out: "Say, mister, you're standing too near the fire, I gaess; you're a-warping." "What would you' do if mamma should die?" she pathetically asked her

little 3-year-old daughter. "I don't know," replied the infant, with downcast eye and a melancholy voice, "I thpose I should have to spank myself." "Mb. Jones," said a diminutive boy with a handful of bills, "when are you going to pay this bill for thorn boots you have got on?" "How old are you my boy?" "Ten years old." ."Go and tell your pa that you have got too

much curiosity for your age."

First Saleslady Marie ! Second

Saleslady I am here. "Are you busy ? "Yes." "Where is the other saleslady?

"She has not come in yet What do you want?" "I want some one to go and ask the lady cashier if she can

change a $100-bill for a woman?"

Omaha World.

Harry (preparing for the country)

There ought to be room in one of the

trunks for my things, I got you six. Considerate Wife You forget, dear, that my six dresses take a trunk each.

But I did not forget you. Here is a nice little satchel you can have all to

yourself. The Judge.

No, sonny, when von read about a

medical student "walking the hospital,"

you mustn't infer that he takes the hospital out walking. It menus that he studies the cases that are there presented. By the way, there are few medical students who walk the hospital who do not believe that they could run one if they had the opportunity. Texas

Siftings.

Mrs. Goldlbaf, newly graduated from a very humble sphere of life, is fond of using a French word now and then, and this she always does with

striking efiect As, for instance, when,

speaking of some duty her maid-servant

had left undone, she remarked, in light and airy manner, "Pauline is good servant a very good servant

but I must confess she is apt to be

neglige." Harper's Bazar.

Four Dakota editors licked by enraged subscribers during the last week! What a record to go out to the world ! It's enough to make an old-timer feel like going off and dying. A few years

ago it would have been four prominent

citizens ready for funeral purposes and four editors going around acting more

) ornery than ever. Territorial journal

ism is going down hill so fast it looks

like a long streak. Dakota Bell.

"Another carpenter has fallen off the

new steeple and been killed," said the

pastor of a Dakota church, to one of the trustees. "Has there? well, Til send up another. I tell you well run that steeple up higher than those

Methodists' spire if it takes all the car

penters in the country 1" "I think myself," replied the minister, with i

quiet smile, "that when they go to

bucking us on the height of a steeple

they will find us stayers." Dakota

Bell.,

Two friends are walking along the

street. One of them, pointing to

house, says: "There's a beautiful place,

but it's enough to make a man sad to

look at it" "Why so?" "On account of

its history; for, despite its calm and serene surroundings, it was built upon

the groans, tears, waitings, and blood of widows, orphans, old men, and

struggling women," "You don't say so.

Was it built by a railroad monopolist?

"O, no; by a dentist." Arkansaw

Traveler.

WOHSB 1HA.S lllf. iiUilKAU V ISK. "Bemarkable thing that about the

Guiteau curse," said one Austin man to

another. "Yes, it is."

"He said misfortune would come upon

all who had anything to do with his

trial." "I know he did."

"A good many of them are dead al

ready." , "So I have read in the papers."

"No parallel for this is found in his

tory, I think." "Oh, yes, there is,"

"What?"

"The fate that befell the assassins of

Julius Creaar all dead, every one of them." Texas Sifting 8. THE VICTEHAN. "I was the last man on the field at Chickamauga," said the old soldier, proudly. "That so?" asked the host; "retired like a wounded lion, eh?" "Not exactly that," said the veteran. "The fight had been over two wjeks before I got there, "Burdettt "

TABLE BTtQVISTTie IN ZANZIBAR,

Talking of eating reminds me of the way the operation is performed by the

Arabs. Five of them seat themselves round a large bowl of rice, surmounted

by a skinny fowl, all being curried.

Two f eize the wings with their fingers

and- two the legs, and simultaneously

tearing these off leave the carcass to

tho fifth, afterward taking out the rice

by handfuls and dexterously conveying

it to the mouth with a peculiar jerk.

One mark of hospitality shown to guests when at table consists in the chief's rolling up some rice into a ball

in the palm of his hand and aiming it

at his guest's widely distended jaws.

On one occasion this piece of civility was shown to myself, but not being an

adept in the art of swallowing rice balls when so projected the effect was anything but what my kind entertainer anticipated, for, independent of being nearly choked, the grains were scattered, or rather sputtered, over the

table in a manner that elicited roars of laughter oven from the very grave Arabs. This, of course, was the last experiment of tho kind tried upon me. Overland Man llily. No man is so insignificant as to be sure bis example can do uo hurt.

HOW OVR POSTAL SHUT WE nAs

GHOWV. The American postal system has been

of suoh a slow growth that the successive phases of its development have not impressed themselves deeply on public

attention.

In 1677 tho court of Boston appointed

John Hay ward to carry and deliver let-

ars. In 1710 Parliament established

postoffice for the colonies Now York

being the chief office. In 1753 Benjamin Franklin was appointed Deputy Postmaster General for the colonies.

Ho originated the fast mail, consisting of a line of stage coaches from Philadelphia to Boston, to run everv week.

The postal rates at the close of tho

lost century were 6 cents for less than thirty miles, 8 cents for under sixty, 10 cents for less than 100, and so on up to

20 cents for 300 miles, and 25 cents for a carriage of over -150 miles. A single

sheet of paper constituted a letter, two

sheets two letters, three sheets three letters. They were invariably folded without envelopes. A sheet, owing to

I his account, was generally written in

the finest penmanship, and not seldom

the written page was written across so that each single sheet hnd eight pages of writing. Newspapers were charged

1 cent for 100 miles.

Postage stamps were introduced in

1847, before which time all letters were

paid for in cash, either at the office of mailing or that of delivery. One hundred and sixty sorts of stamps have been issued since 1847. In 1798 tho

whole Postal Department nt Washington was conducted by the Postmaster

General and assistant and one clerk.

The first locomotive used by the mail

service was on the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company's road in Pennsylvania, in 1829. The South Carolina

Railroad Company followed so:n after. But ns a regular carrier of tho mail the

railroad did not become a factor till

1835, when the road from Washington

to Baltimore was opened. But so short

were the lines of road, and so discon

nected, that it remained for a long time a problem whether the stage coach was

not more serviceable. Tho speed obtained was inferior, and the delays very vexatious. Bat these troubles were steadily overcome as lines of road became consolidated.

In 1851 occurred the famous reduc

tion of postage to 3 cents for all dis

tances less than 3,000 miles. Mail agents were appointed as early as 1840 ; but this branch of tho system grew into form very slow. In 1862, however, began tho absolute revolution of our whole system of mail service. It was the device and wit of a Missouri clerk in the office at St. Joseph William H. Davis. He devised and was allowed to operate the first postoffice car ever used. The slow and tedious distribu

tion and forwarding of letters from general offices now ceased. The work

was done on the car, and letters new

across the country like shuttles.

A SMALL BOX'S WKAKVESS.

It was a very small boy, who was

just beginning to appreciate things. Like grown people ho did not talk idly

aliout the little girl at school who had

made an impression on his young heart,

that still beat beneath a kind of pinafore. It was too serious a matter. His

mother, who had doubtless been all

through it herself, and like grown-up

people, had forgotten all about it and

lost sympathy with it, did not treat him well. Sho hurt his feelings. It

was the hour he ought to be at school,

and she found him crying in a dark cor

ner.

"Whv haven't you gone to school?"

"I don't want to go to-day."

"Well, you've got to, or I'll spank

yon good. Be off now."

"Mamma, I don't want to go." "I'll have to take you, then."

"Mamma, don't take me to school to

day. I can't go to school to-day."

"Why?" "Because." "Because why?"

"Because you've given me a dirty

pinafore." "It's perfectly clean."

"No it isn't There is a spot on it,

and Gladys will see it, and she won't

like me."

"Gladys won't see a little thing like that Bun along or Gladys won't like

you."

And when she had persuaded him

that it did not ruin his appearance en

tirely, he ran oft It was not indispo

sition to learn. It was love.

And when that little chap grows up and gets married he'll get over all such little weaknesses. He'll go about all over spots unless when Gladys takes

him and brushes hfcn down, and he'll never have his necktie quite straight,

and he'll need to be told by Gladys

that she will not go ont with him unless he cets new clothe?, and his little son

will be coin? through the same old

process with some small girl in scho L

What you learn in childhood doesn't amount to much. You always forget what your mother and father have most carefully instilled into yon, and you grow up entirely on your own hook, as a general rule. San Francisco

Chronicle. PUJiti ATIQVAUIA1SM.

If looking for an illustration of an

tiquarian spirit pure and simple, one could hardly find a better one than the

following incident:

A few years ago the writer was in

vited by Prof. McN , as a special favor, to seo a co lection of curiosities which tho latter had gathered and

stored away in a dingy rented room in

a back street of New Orleans. Ascending a rickety stairway, ho led me

to his repository, threw back a window-

shutter to let the light in and the musty air out, and then placed in my hands a dilapidated quarto. I carefully placed

my open v.alms under it, fearing it

would fall to pieces.

"Ah!" said ho, "I see you know how

to handle a treasure."

"What is this, Professor?" I asked,

as the old tome lay opened bofore me, written in a language of which I did not even know the characters; "what is the title of the book? What is it about? Who wrote it? In what language is it written?" The Professor hesitated as I asked these questions, one after another, evinced great pleasure at the interest I was manifesting, and finally slowly answered: "Well, Mr. , I 1 I don't know;

but it is a great comfort to have it." Editor's Jtrawtr, Harper's Magazine. Tub mind grown narrow in proper tjon as the scU mown oorrupt

ltey funny Shakespeare has imparted an infinitely ludicrous impression to the whole of "Hamlet," A vicious brother murders a noble and horoio father, but how? The King is poisoned through the earl "Sleeping within my orchard, My oustom always of tho afternoon. Upon my secure hour thy unolo stole With Juice of curspd hobenon in a vial, Ad in tho porches of my ear did pom The leperous dlstilmenV There is a profound meaning in this perversion. The poet is here sneering at the vices of courts where reputations are slain every day by poison introduced through "the porches of the ear. " In bis own unequalled way he is poking fun, even by the means of this grave matter of murder, at the backbiters and slanderers who infest palaces, and possibly with some concrete instances just then in view. Now see how this matter is made known to Harolot and the retributory motivo introduced. It is not enough that he should ausoeot his uncle's crime,

thouirh not. of course, the manner of it

("Oh, my prophetic soul !"h nor hate him as his own persecutor and the seducer of his mother. These motives, or any of them, would in all reason be

sufficient justification for revenge in a

mare tracredv. are bv no means suf

ficient in a traaedv burlesqued. Ac

cordingly another comical expedient, altogether foreign to the story, is devised, and the supernatural is brought

upon the scene. The embodied spirit of the deceased monarch is found prowling about the battlements of the castle of Elsinore. and is forthwith

introduced to Hamlet by his friend,

Horatio. From this veracious shadow

(clad in "complete steel") and variously addressed bv an irreverent son as "old

mole." "trueoennv." "tfoblin damned,"

"this fellow in the cellarage," etc., the remarkable circumstances of the caso are gleaned, and in response to its subterranean bidding the vow of ven

geance is made. To rightly appreciate the significance of this episode, we must reflect on its wider meaning. We

must recall the nearly universal belief

in ghosts at tne time; me gutuuuuy indeed of the popular mind at all times on this head. What an opening for satire here! The whole ghost incident is indeed most diverting, and the more

so, that certain sage ana potent critics

have actuallv proclaimed it quite

seriously as typical, as affording a sort of kev note." as it were, to the whole

piece, Temple Jsar,

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"Don't Harry Hlml" He is such a fioklo. inconsistent follow, you

will uover be nanny with him." said Esther's

friends when tlioy learned of hor engagement

to a young man wno ooro mo repuutuou oi being a sad flirt. Esther, however, know that hor lover had good qualities, and sho was willing to take the risk. Iu nine oaees out of ten it would have orovod a mistake: but

Esther was an uncommon girl, and to every

one s surprise jnrea made a moaei uuBnana.

now was in Hen, jwtnor uau a owwnui, sunny temper and a groat doal of test Then

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FOR SALE CHEAP! One of Payne 4 Son's automatic ten-horse power eogines. it has only been used about two years, ami Is in every respect as good an the day It came out of the shoo. This engine Is equal to twentyhorse power If required of U. Add rew. FORT WAYNE AEW.SPAPER UNION, 88 87 Columbia St., Fort Wayne, Ind.

mi ro

sr a ass ateliiMr niles. Can rasranl

I las a WPrtetncaad.il. At drcriisf s or

mallea hj Wilding. Klnnan Marrln, Wholesale

Agis., Toll

An Abyssinian Library.

The Abyssinian alphabet consists of (wo hundred and eight characters, each

of which is written distinctly ana sep

arately, like the letters of a European printed book. The labor required to write an Abyssinian book is therefore

immense, and sometimes years are con

sumed in the preparation of a single

volume. Mr. Cuzon, an English

scholar, visited an Abyssinian monas

tery a few miles from Cairo, and was surprised to find therein one of the most nnioue of libraries. In a room twenty-

six feet by twenty, a number of long

wooden veers nroiected from the wall,

and on them hung about fif ty Abyssinian books in manuscript. As the

entire literature of Abyssinia does not

include more than one hundred vol

umes, the monks were proud of their library. Each book was bound in red

leather or in boards, and enclosed in a case tied up with leather thongs. To this case was attached a strap for the convenience of carrying the volume over the shoulders, and by these straps the books were hung to the wooden pegs, three or four to a peg. The room thus fitted up also contained a number of longstaveB, for the monks to lean on at the time of prayer. It had the appearance of a guard-room, where the soldiers had hong their knapsacks and cartridge boxes against the wall A wise old lady used to say, "The man who gets on best in this world is he who is most fertile in expedient. " The Old Silver Spoon. Bow fresh in my mind are the days of my sickness. When I tossed me in pain, all fevered and sore; The burning, the nausea, the sinking and weakness, And even the old spoon that my medicine bore. The old silver spoon, the family spoon, Tho sick-chamber spoon chat my modicine bore. How loath were my fever-parohed lips to receive it, How nauseous the stuff that it bore to my tongue, And the pain at my inwards, oh, naught could relieve it.

Though tears of disgust from my eyeballs it

wrung, The old silver suoon. the medicine spoon,

How awful Hie stuff that it left on my

tonguo. Suoh is the effect of nauseous. Krrpinc med

icines which make tho sick-room a memory of

THOUSANDS aay that Ely's Cream Balm cured them of HAY-FEVER Apply Blm into eaoh nostril.

Snre relief setnimi KIDOER'8 PA8TlLLE8J7n-S

aaaaMaMajsamaagaar inn u sum hi i

AArn A MONTH. Agents wanted. SObestsellhi I ins articles in the world. 1 sample FREE. $XUU Address JAY BKONSON, Detroit, Mich.

$5

... mm m .v. HmmtilM worth 11.50. r itlB.

Unas no under the horse's t. Write Brewster Safety Bain Holder Oo. Hetty, sDan

AN efficient stenographer and clerk, speaking French, Spanish. Gorman, and English, desires a situation. Address P.C . W., box 21. Anderson Ind

OPIUM

HHblt CUred aulsfa'torrlwrore an?,.?. mr. i. . BAares, a wrJ. ci.d.u, o.

wi .n.Ml t,i Rnlriiftrn and Heirs. T,

f JMH MUJN B UAM. AtCy, Washington, S.

HoME Study. Secure a Business Education hy raaU from BBYASrtBpaiMEaa College, Bunalo.K.Y.

horror. Br. Pierce's Pleasant Purirative Pel-

lets, on the contrary, aro small, sugar-coated, easy to take, purely vegotablo, and perfoctiy effective. 35 cents a viaL

I have always notloed that drug- store

patrons who take whisky as a "medicine only," always have the reddest noses. Offer No. 170.

FEEEI To Mkbohants Okit: A threofoot, French glass, oval-front Show Case. Address at once, R. W Tansill & Co. 65 State

street Chicago

25c. bnys a pair of Lyon's Patent Heel SHffenors, which makes a boot or shoe last twice as

long.

The Confidence

Of people who have tried Hood's SarsapariUs, in this

preparation, is nmarksble. Many who have tailed to

dartre any good whatever from other articles are completely restored to health bythepcenliarcurative

powers of this medicine. For diseases caused by Im

pure blood, or low state of the system. It is unsurpassed. It you need a good medicine, Kif o Hood's

Sarsaparlna a trial.

"Hood's SarsaparUla as a blood purifier has uo equal.

It tones the system, strengthens and invigorates, Riv

ing new life. I have taken it for kidney complaint, with the bast results." D. B. Saundebs, 81 Pearl

Street, qiKiiunati, O. Hood '8 Sarsaparilla

Sold by all druggists, fi; six forts. Prepared only

y O. I. HOOD at OO, Lowell. Mass. IOO Doses One Dollar

KIDDER'S

A 8UBK CVKK FOK INDIGESTION and DYSPEPSIA

Over 5,000 Phyaicinus have sent uu their aiurovaI of

that it in thu heat nreiiar&tioii

ey nave ever uboq.

ieard of a caan of Llvaueiisla where

XUuJanXLLN wu taken that wag not cured.

for Indigestion that W hava itsjver liei

FOR CHOLERA INFANTUM.

rr wrr.i. rnm tur unm- a(Whiavatkii cases.

IT WUX STOP VOMITING IN I'HrXlNAKOV. IT WUX RELIEVE CONSTIPATION. Tot Bummsr. Complaints and Chronic Diarrhea.

waloh are tut direct results ot Imperfect digestion, mrtRHTVI.TN will eflVftt an imniiinta euro.

nillKHTVI IN fur all ttRlfiH nmi rftminltmi ot

thu stomuih ; they all cnnie from indigestion. Ask your druggist far MOESTYUN (prk-e I per luru bottle). If ha does not hive it, feud om- dullar ( ns and wa will send u bottle to you. (preHN prepaid. Doaoi hsaiUU to send youriuouey. Our house is

rs'isme. AmaeuasM uri-my-nre years. 1M W. K1DDKH CO., mmmummtmrnltm OaUli. Mm , 1,

CIINGI.B LADIES provided for during confinement O at Ur. Thayer's, it Walton Ave- fori Wayne. Ind.

riOLl is worth 500 per pound, Pottit'a Eye Salve lT $1,000, but is sold at 83 cents a box hy dealers.

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j"-") .best Business College. Shorthand, will please send ijiSmLlsMWW . .,

f JrSJJ) ias BubikSS CotLioa. clove- WisWob-Print, mtVmmmm. PsMSM,

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wills within our iimita, reached at a deoth of 350 to SMfeet. Railroads . contertag J

and waterworks, 15 churches, IS miles of street railway. M miles of

in mnrse of constrnction, are : Missouri Pacini-. Texts 1'aoinc. roTt wora ana Jww j aid Santa Fe, Kansas Southern. Fort Wurth and Mp Grande, Gnlf, tolorado "jd 8

Western, St. Louis, Arkansas ana Aexas. iinsn. ww ' irSr3 in,.t The m-aiwat lanre town t3 tho west from Fort w oi th is El Paso, a

farco town to Fort Worth to the north is Put Mo, CoI.,distance 60 1 inlM. IMSOU smssra is Black, waxy and sandy lo;m, too avera. ricld Pr acre betas: Coltou, Ibeto; oprfcSBlm bahels :oats,0 bushels. In 186! nopuIatwnw aSiO ; in 18T poimlatwaaUf; to JM .Oo' : daily rmblic school attendance WWI. In Wo taxable valuation wm ,: to Ml

wi aS-Sii iMO! in 1886 taxable valuation was 7.o o.oiu. i uere are now iwwto ww

operation, radiatitt? from Fort Worth, and two more under constrncuon; it may oe I

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Secrntaxy Merchants' and Manufacturers'

holies.

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PELLETSm

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THE

LITTLE LIVER PILaLS.

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W(LVfc BEWARE OF IMITATION81

1 srv Always ask for Dr. Plerca'a PalMts.

5 VO Sagar-coatsd Granules or

nmaiuiinr Ei!ni.it. fir SMrMa sAsllata tBtatti WitaaOStt

avsaartijr - ' . , - . msaisimsfc tt. or oeeuBatlon. Put up to class wlals. aormeclly sealed. Always aMs aU WiffJWBi.

LAXATITK, AliTKHAXIVB, or POBfiAUTE, these little Pellets twe tste sweat pertee. .

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SICK HEADACHE. Billons Headache, Dlzzlnesau Oontlpatton, Iudlareatlou, Billons Attacks, and all derangoraenta of the stomach and bowels, aro promptly leuevea and permanently cured by the use or Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Purgative Pellets. In explanation of the remedial power of these fiallata Amu an wnial vnrifltv Of diseases.

It may truthfully be said that their action upon tie system is universal, not a gland or tissue escaping their sanative tafluence. Sold by druggists, for 25 cents a vial. Manufactured at the Chemical Laboratory ot WOBia'B Dibpehsabi Msdioal Association, Buffalo, N. T.

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ana Peilot after each meal. tiU att were ateae. HT

that time I had oo boils, and have bad none stnee. Ijmm

hn troubled with sick headache. When I reel

I take one or two 'FeUeta,' and am relieved of '

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mmm: "Tour 'Pi

wttJimta oueasion the

mm fraiAv- btv, afattk a meat

for torpor of the liver. We hate for years In our family, and nsp

Tie Best CsTBABTIB.

the house aU the time."

FOR A CASE OF CATARRH WHICH THEY CAN NOT

SYMPTOMS OF CATARRH.

Bull, heavy headache, obstruction of tho nasal pasmircs, db ohartrcs falll'iiff from tho head into the throat, sometimes profuse, water-, and acrid, at others, thick, tenacious, mucous, purulent, bloody and putrid; tho eyes aro weak, watery, and intlumcd; thero is rmfrinp; in tho ears, deafness, hacking- or coughing to clear tho throat, expectoration of offensive matter, together with scabs from ulcers: tho voice is changed and has a nasal twnnpr; tho breath is offensive: smell and taste are impaired ; then; is a sensation of dizziness, with mental depression, a hacking cough and general debility. However, only a few of tho above-named symptoms ore likely to bo present In any one caso. Thousands or cages unnually, without manifesting half of tho above symptoms, result in consumption, and oud in the grave. No disease is so common, more deceptive and dangerous, less understood, or more unmiceessfiilly treated by physicians. By its mild, soothing, and healing- properties, DR. SAGE'S CATARRH REMEDY curbs vrea wobsv oasjb or Catarrh, "Cold in the Head," Coryza, and Catarrhal Headache. SOLD BY EVERYWHERE.

Uhtolo About FRiM CmRRH.

Tmf. W. HA1

ist, of iti oca, if. veara aaro I sorCs

chronio nasal catarrh, cian irave me UP as Id

must die Mv ease wast

that every day. towards sunset, my voice Mi

1 couW barely speak above a whisper, in too

ing and clearing oi' my throat woum atmoaa use of Dr. Sage s Catarrh Kernedy, to Urree man, and the cure baa been rjermanont.

COISTUTLY HtWKIKfi UD Spittiib.

done for me.

Dr. Sage's Catarrh Remedy, and I am now a

nove it to DO the only sure remwiy iw b tured, and one has only to give It a fair

astounding- results and a permanent core.'

Three Bottles Cure Catarrh.

irmanont oure.

FRAZER AXLE GREASE. Best In the World. Vet the Rrtiulne. Kvry nackaae hue our Trudn-tiiHrk mid la BUjlfe ftuar's. H01.U iiVKlilWUlSKK.

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Krarr also Sci. For fraaattoanMl HftBtWa tblt papa? aat itraai

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stantly hawkior and , SfrftUmr,

last eigni moBtne wura nt

the nostrils. I thougnt

I.UCK1U-, 1

f'daS!

she was nve years om, ver; Dr. Sage's Catarrh Remedy

irooured a bottle for her. hat it helped her; a third She is now eighteen years

PATENTS: to patentability aSTlT ?

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Ind. ow cases reopened. Send trceevotls7ia!; .

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