Decatur Democrat, Volume 35, Number 23, Decatur, Adams County, 28 August 1891 — Page 3

Frightful ion of Ufbt I Os the many disasters with which mankind has been visited, one of the worst is that class of i ailments which, originating simply with inactivity of the kidneys and bladder, causes such frightful loss of life. Under thia appalling cate- I gory come Bright’s disease, diabetes, gravel, I ordinary nephritis and catarrh of the bladder. 4 No class of organic maladies, against which medical skill is pitted, so often baffles the expert practitioner and sets his skill at naught. Easy is it, however, to arrest these direful ailments at the start. The diuretic action of Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters is just sufficient to set the bladder and kidneys at work, preserve or ■ rescue them from fatal inactivity without exciting them. The unmedicated stimulants of commerce excite without either strengthening or regulating. Hostetter’s btomach Bitters does both. It is unfailing for malaria, dyspepsia, debility, rheumatism, liver complaint and constipation. ' Illuminated Fountains. The electric light can be made to give a very beautiful effect in illuminating garden fountains. For this purpose a chamber has to be excavated beneath them, and immediately under the jet a thick plate of glass is inserted, watertight. An arc lamp directs its light directly through this plate into the column of water rising vertically above it, and the ’inclosed air, together with the broken surfaces of the jet, scatters this light in all directions, thus giving the liquid the appearance of being self-lu-minous, The color of the illumination is varied by means of tinted slides passed ” horizontally beneath the glass plate in the roof of the vault. GO AND VIEW THE LAND. Three Cheap Harvest Excursions. On AUgust 25th, September 15th and September 29th, Low Rate Harvest Excursions will be run from all stations on the wabash railroad to the Great Earming Regions of the. West, Northwest. South and Southwest. Tickets good returning for thirty days from date of sale. The Crops were never so good as this year, and the Railroad Rates, via Wsbash, never so low. Whatever section you wish to visit, be sure and write to or call upon the nearest Wabash ticket agent for particulars as to rates, time of trains, accomodations, etc. If you do not live adjacentto the Wabash, write at once to F. Chandler. Gen’l Passenger and Ticket Agent. St. Louis, Mo. How to Help the Horses. A lady hired a stranger to do some hauling the other day, on the recommendation of the man’s horse. It was such a well-kept, fine animal that she thought the owner must be a good man, and so it turned out. By never hiring any vehicle drawn by a lame, sick, or galled horse, you will be doing much to prevent cruelty, and alsc teach men that the care of animals pays. —New Orleans Picayune. Special training is demanded for all important positions, whether on the farm or in the commercial world. In this connection we call attention to the announcement made in this issue, of the Indianapojis Business University, one of the oldest and most distinguished of strictly business training schools in our country. The proprietors, Messrs. Heeb & Osborn, are men of extensive and successful business experience, and spare no expense in maintaining the position of the University at the head of commercial schools. By mentioning this paper a handsome catalogue will be sent to any address bv the institution. It is a pleasure to recommend to our readers the excellent work of the Indianapolis Business University. Stealing Kipe Eggs. - A Colored man stole eight eggs from a farmer near Canton, 0., and put them in a basket to take to that town. When he arrived there and opened the basket he found, instead of the eggs, eight little chicks, aliye and hungry.

> - An unusual offer •—the one that’s made by the proprietors of Dr. Sage’s Catarrh Remedy. Unusual, but made in good faith. It’s a reward of SSOO for an incurable case of Catarrh. If you have one, the money’s for you. But yoa can’t know whether you have one, till you’ve tried Dr. Sage’s Remedy. What’s incurable by any other means* yields to that. By its mild, soothing, cleansing and healing properties, it cures the worst cases, no matter of how long standing. That’s the reason the money can be offered. There’s a risk about it, to be sure. But it’s so small that the proprietors are willing to take it. The symptoms of catarrh are, headache, obstruction of nose, discharges falling into throat, sometimes profuse, watery, and acrid, at others, thick, tenacious, mucous, purulent, bloody, putrid and offen- j sive; eyes weak, ringing in ears, deafness; offensive breath ; smell and taste impaired, and general debility. Only a few of thesesymptoms likely to be present at once. z “German Syrup” G. Gloger, Druggist, Watertown, Wis. This is the opinion of a man who keeps a drug store, sells all medicines, comes in direct contact with the patients and their families, and knows better than anyone else how remedies sell, and what true merit they have. He hears of all the failures and successes, and can therefore judge: “I know of no medicine for Coughs, Sore Throat, or Hoarseness that had done such effective work in my Coughs, family as Boschee’s German Syrup. Bast Sore Throat, winter a Hoarseness, at m y store, who was suffering from a very severe cold. She could hardly talk, and I told her about German Syrup and that a few doses would give relief; but she had no confidence in patent medicines. I told her to take a bottle, and if the results were not satisfactory I would make no charge sos it. A few days after she called and paid for it, saying that she would never be without it in future as • few doses had given her relief.’* ® m■ ■ ■■ a ANAKKSIS (tirea inaUni' ■■ I I ■■ relief, and is an INFALLI--11 llf I W BLE CUKE for PILES. rILto

| "GO TO.** Little passions at their playissions held at bay. Frozen hopes now lying dead, Sammer hopes that long sines fled; I And dreams that are our dreams no move Are like false signals on the slwwe; False lights that may shine again. Dreams that conquer every pain, ! Summer hopes so born to bloom. That the dead one’s find no room, And the larger passions knowing AU the small ones help their growing Passions ever are the same, Large or small a passing name; Hopes of every kind are still, Joys that envy cannot kill, And all our dreams are mirrors fair. Reflecting light from everywhere. Is life a paradox ? “go to!” Each contradiction is as true As stars, o, moon, or summer’s sun Since they their course first begun. And thus for every ill we -see There’s something better yet to be. Ergo; every day’s a star That misfortune cannot mar, Every hour’s a matin song That is never wrecked by wrong. And for every blessed ‘minit” i There’s a joy if we will win it. —Hearth and Hall. A CANE AND A WORK BOX. BY Hl. MARSHALL. “Oh, mamma, think of it! To meet all my old classmates, time and again, and to know that I’m not one of them this year, but must remain at home hoping for a brighter day,” and the fair brow of Lenna Roberts was slightly clouded. “Free enough, Lenna, replied Mrs. Roberts, “but, while I, too, lament our circumstances and would willingly undergo much that you might not have deprivations, yet I really think the discipline and self-denial will do you good. You have always, heretofore, had much to gratify you. Now that you are forced to forego some of your former pleasure, learn to appreciate more than ever the blessings within your reach. But I’m quite sure my daughter will cheerfully make any sacrifice as though her dear father were here to speak his approval,” and as the little woman paused for a reply, she gently brushed a tear away and sadly thought of the lonely grave in Oak Hill Cemetery where her beloved husband was laid to rest scarcely four months ago“Oh, mamma, dear, you are always right. I don’t mean to be complaining, but I do wish I had Cinderella’s fairy god-mother to wave her wand and cause me to have sufficient fortune to enable me to finish my course at college; but as that can't be, I’ll not spend time idly wishing for impossible things, but try to be all that poor papa would have wished,” and the young girl turned away and began some trivial task with a willingness that betokened how earnest she was. Presently she cried: “See, there goes ‘Old Felix’ home. He must have been some distance, as he seems utterly worn out,” and as Lenna spoke her mother glanced out the window and beheld a spare shriveled old man entering the yard opposite. An unusual puff of wind lifted the heavy, wide-brimmed hat from his head and deposited it upon the sidewalk about three feet from him. With slow steps he advanced toward it. As his long bony fingers were about to grasp it the wind capriciously lifted it the second time, and carried it further down the streets. Then, determining to “kill two birds with the same stone,” managed to throw the old man’s cane upon the • ground. The hat remained in position for the space of half a minute and then impelled by some sudden motive gave a jump and rolled swiftly over and over a little distance, stopped again—considered the matter—and once more proceeded swiftly in its race. Felix Harley or “Old Felix,” as he was commonly called by everyone, was not noted for his angelic disposition even in early youth, and now, soured after years of sufferring and battling with a diseased constitution, as he stood with bare head exposed to the sun’s rays, and felt the strong breeze blow through his few scattered locks, he muttered under his breath, “Plague take this infernal wind.” “Wait a moment, sir,” exclaimed a cheery voice, and turning toward the sound Old Felix saw the sylph-like form of Lenna Roberts rapidly crossing the street toward him. The perverse hat was first stopped in its rolling, tumbling career-'and firmly held in a strong white hand. Then, stooping for the cane, she returned both articles to their irate owner. Old Felix replaced his hat with a curt “Thank you,” and vouschafed her a not unkind look from under his shaggy brows. Lenna knew the old man’s ways by reputation, though few could i be said tohave even a limited acquain- ; tance with him socially. As she was not looking for courtesies in that direction, she was surprised to hear him essay to thank her. “The wind blows with terrific force,” she ventured smilingly. “I fear you found little pleasure in your walk.” “No,” was the grim response.” my ; carriage was under repairs and I went ’! on business,” and turning away he , slowly entered the house. A few days after this little adventure, message came to Lenna, requesting hbr presence at Felix Harley’s residence. He was ill with fever and though not dangerous it was deemed best to humor his whims. Lenna hastily laid aside her ironing and was soon for the first lime in her life ringing admittance to the house opposite. A servant ushered her jnto a darkened room where Felix was confined to his bed. She felt a little timid, as most any girl of 18 would, as she saw his, homely features more drawn and; sunken than usual. As Lenna advanced j toward him she noticed the little weazen-faced sister with complexion a j shade lighter than his sitting near the | bedside. These two were the only liv- i ing descendants of an old and wealthy I family. Jean Harley had never mar-' tied but had cared only for her brother since her mother with dying breath had consigned him to her care. She was then but a little child of 12 and the little Felix, a chubby, rosy lad of 8, had already learned to think there was no one like sister. So these two had grown up—the tendrils of their love reaching and overlapping each other i firmly until there was little affection left for others. As disease early laid its hold upon Felix, and warped and soured his better qualities, people gradually came to the conclusion that he was a morose, disagreeable fellow, ! and left him to his own company. How wealthy he was no one know. At his majority he came into ft goodly fortune, the bulk of which had been increased year by year. s Beside which he owned more rest! estate than any other man around. The fines* opera house in the city belonged to him. “The Harley” was accounted the best hotel by far, and the residence houses and tenement rows that monthly paid in their dues made him more than independent. He waa not a stingy man, but gave freely to the

needy, and contributed heavily to any fund which helped to upbuild the city. Notwithstanding this, at 60 yean of age he claimed no man as friend, but rather deemed his fellow beings intruders. He could not have told why he sent for Lenna Roberts. Querulous and irascible he was at all times. Trained nurses had been employed during former sicknesses, but only to be dismissed at his first caprice. As he saw Lenna, he nodded to her, then closed his eyes and was soon asleep. Jean Harley welcomed her kindly, telling her it was a whim of her brother’s to send for her, and that probably when he awoke he would no longer wish her to stay. But she was mistaken. When he opened his eyes he asked Lenna to give him his medicine, and insisted upon her remaining there. It was a change and proved an agreeable one—that of having a fair young girl with noiseless step and soft cool touch anticipate his wishes. For Lenna had been with her father during his last sickness and possessed that even temper and cheerful disposition so essential in the care of the sick. It soon became apparent that the old man would not be able to go around for a few weeks, at least So Lenna was duly installed as a temporary member of the family. The days passed slowly enough to her but she was never tiring in her efforts to please Old Felix. She felt fully repaired for any trouble when she noticed how eagerly he watched for her and how his dull eyes would brighten when she appeared! He found no fault with her at any time, which she thought a grateful compliment The fifth week since she had left her home was drawing to a close. Old Felix, now convalescent, had fallen asleep at the sound of Lenna’s voiceAs she read a few pages of the French Revolution. Like most solitary exacting men Felix Harley was a constant reader and kept himself well informed on past and current events. Jean Harley sat knitting away while Lenna, on a low seat near, her book fallen in her lap, seemed wrapped in reverie. Her face was somewhat thinner than when she first entered those rooms. The blue eyes had a faraway, dreamy look. Her companion gazed at her curiously, then gently asked: “Are you not tired and homesick? This constant confinement has been too much for you, I’m afraid.” “Oh, no, no; I assure you I’ve enjoyed so much being of what little use I could to you. I was only building air castles. That’s a habit I indulge during idle moments,” and the girl picked up her book, remarking, “How soundly your brother sleeps. His breathing, too, is regular and natural.” Lenna never allowed herself to speak of nim as “Old Felix.” “Yes,” responded the elder woman; “Dr. Mansfield says he will be able to go to another climate shortly, and as you must need rest, and am, I’m sure, anxious to be with your mother once more, we have decided to dispense with your kind presence.” When Jean Harley ofiered Lenna a liberal sum of money for her services, she refused it saying it was pleasure to wait upon a sick neighbor. “At any rate you will accept a little keepsake from me,” and leaving the room Jean returned with a child’s work-box. the lid beautifully inlaid with mother- : of-pearl. It was given to me.” she said, placing it in Lenna’s hand, “by my mother, long before I was your age; for her sake as well as mine I trust you will guard it as you would a diamond in your possession. And’ when we are far away on out travels sometimes think of the two who will always remember you as a household angel.” A feeling of reverence passed through Lenna as she tenderly carried the box home, after duly admiring it. It contained the ordinary appurtenances of a work-box, tiny scissors, silver thimble and two or three other small articles. Felix himself, reticent as usual, took no pains to express any thanks in words, but on the day of their departure he presented Lenna with a singular gift. The identical cane she had lifted from the pavement on that windy morning. “Keep it where it won’t be stolen,” he remarked; “it may be of value to your husband, for of course you will marry some day.” he added grimly. It was a rather large cane, deeply carved with birds and animals. “It’s of no use to me, mamma,” said Lenna displaying the cane, “but I’ll keep it to remember him by or save it for my future husband,” she added with a light laugh. About a month after the brother and i sister had left for foreign lands Lenna i was showing her workbox to a friend and noticed the lining was loose in one corner. "When her friend left she sat down and began to mend it Curiosity (which men so often affirm is paramount to all other traits in woman) prompted her to peep under the | daintily quilted lining as she slightly i raised it. She gave an ejaculation of •; surprise and quickly clipped more ■ stitches. A tiny spring was disclosed upon pressing which she found a kind of shallow drawer or bed an inch and a half long and half as wide. A folded piece of paper within she opened and read. Her surprised deepened as she read these words: “Dear Household Angel: Accept a memento of my gratitude and good will toward you. Examine cane carefully. “Jean Harley." Laying aside the note she looked farther and found securely wrapped two glittering diamonds and three pearl jewels. She could scarcely believe \ that she was not dreaming, and called ; her mother to confirm her good fortune. I Mrs. Roberts was no less dumb- | founded than her daughter. The cane i Vas brought to light and together they I searched carefully, hoping to find some I hidden spring. For nearly twenty | minutes the two went up and down, : over and over the cane diligently, but without avail. They felt there must be some mistake after all, when suddenly Lenna said, “There is something in the hollow of this bird’s claw which may be a very minute spring.” Investigation proved her right and after working awhile it yielded to the force of strength and springing open revealed a long hollow inside the cane. “ ‘Tig no wonder they cautioned you to take such care of their gifts,” said Mrs. Roberts, “but let us see what the cane contains.” Lenna reached in and drew forth a white paper in the form of < a long roll. Unrolling, they found it to be a warranty deed making herself sole owner of a fine piece of property in a desirable part of town. “1 wouldn’t believe this could befall me,” said Lenna in ecstacy. “Cinderella’s godmother didn't do one fourth so much for her, did she, mamma? Now we can be so comfortable and I can finish my education,” and the happy girl capered with joy. Marriage promotes longevity among men, notwithstanding its tendency to produce premature baldness. i

AMONG THOSE WHO TOIL ITEMS PERTAINING TO LABOR AND LABORERS. A Column of Particular Interest to Those Who Earn Their Daily Bread—What Labor is Doing and What is* Doing for Labor. I—>1 —> ERLIN girl ><3 JQjwaiters organized. New York (fit »- purse makers won. a jfjTu/Sjk Boston has a Meddlers’ Union. B Dublin has the ’argest brewery. ’llmrT'’^ KOY e^ec ' r'/L trie car cost $lO,wr jy'i 000. Oatmeal is controlled by a trust. Pittsburgh reporters have a union. Indiana has a Bankers’ Association. Varnishers talk of a National Union. A wood carving machine is successful. Indianapolis working women are organizing. Locomotive firemen will build a $150,000 hall. San Francisco paper hangers have organized. Londonderry, Ireland, has 700 Knights of Labor. Illinois miners averaged $1.15 a day last year. Canada letter carriers get $360 to S6OO a year. Boston plumbers will not push the demand for $4. San Francisco painters and decorators work eight hours. Wilkesbarre miners demand their pay every two weeks. ’Frisco seamen kick against the competition of Japanese. Cleveland, Fort Worth and Decatur unions will build halls. A pound of phosphorus is sufficient to pit 1,000,000 matches. Indianapolis clerks object to stores that are open on Sunday. A New York Italian barber charges 10 cents extra for negroes. One of the latest novelties in trade is an electric carpet beater. Boston freight handlers were refused the Saturday half holiday. Twenty-eight unions compose the New York Hebrew Trades Union. Women in California canneries get from $1.16 to $1.90 per day. Boston clothing operatives will send a delegate to the Brussels convention. Missoula (Mont.) laborers are boycotting people who patronize the Chinese. A young woman is Secretary and Treasurer of a Helena (Mont.) lumber company. Members of the New York German Farmers’ Union won 45 cents an hour. Indianapolis laundry girls are inducing employers to pay for work after 6 p. m. France has prohibited the working of railroad firemen and engineers over twelve hours a day. During the last ten years the Paris Gas Company has paid into the city treasury $40,000,000. To help the boycott on a box factory San Francisco grocers will not handle goods packed in the company’s boxes. Brownsville (L. I.) cloakmakers will build a $20,000 hall. Each man will be j assessed $5 in installments of sl. Nebraska’s Eight Hour law went into ’ effect. Most of the employers have decided to pay by the hour. Brick- : layers will get $4 instead of $4.50. Within two days after the Boston I street car companies put on a new time ’ table that increased hours 2,500 men | joined the union. They have been ■ working ten hours a day. A mutual benefit society may be organized among men employed on electric railways throughout the country. If the organization takes place headquarters will be in Boston. A rapidly revolving brush, which gets its motive power through a flexible j tube attached to a small electric motor, has been found to operate practically in , the grooming of horses. I The new University of Chicago will ; include in its departments a school ol I electrical engineering. A school of! arts will be organized, in which the | electrical section will be a prominent feature. The harbor authorities at Southampton, England, have decided to adopt electrical cranes for the unloading of vessels on account of the greater rapidity with which the work can be performed. The American Glucose Company, which has factories in Buffalo, New York, and other cities, and agencies in some of the large cities, has commenced a general reduction of 10 per cent, in salaries and wages. The gross value of our manufactured products during 1890 will probably be $8,600,000,000, and increase of about $3,300,000,000. The capital invested will probably reach $4,600,000,000, and the increase during this decade exceeds the total capital invested in 1370. The wages paid will be close upon $1,500,000,000, an addition of $500,000,000 or $50,000,000 annually. The number of hands employed will be about 3,650,000, an addition to our army of wageearners of 900,000 during the decade. According to a redent estimate, fourfifths of the engines now working in the world have been constructed during the last twenty-five years. The steam engines of the world represent, approximately, the working power of 1,000,000,000 men, or more than double the working population of the world, the total population of which is usually estimated at 1,455,923,000 inhabitants. Steam has accordingly enabled man to treble his working power, making it possible for him to economize his ohysioal strength while attending to hie intellectual development Fifty thousand men work on the Liverpool docks. The best paid among them get 5 shillings a day when they have work. The majority of less skillful hands get very much less. Clerks, porters, and salesmen and women about the markets receive from Bto 18 shillings per week. Tramcar drivers get as high as 24 shillings, but conductors never above 21. Barbers, caretakers or janitors • and watchmen, milkmen, bakers’ men, grocery and market trap driven, express and railway package and freight collectors receive only from 10 to 18 shillings, while corporation day laborers are paid from 16 to 20 shillings per week. »

B>«Ulat “ReJwm.” English spelling is, more than that of any other living language, a beautiful history, as it now stands, of the rise and growth of the language itself. In our apparently awkward assemblages of now silent consonants, in many of our phonetically useless double letters, we recognize the delicate threads by which we can trace hosts of words back to their origin; our spelling is, in itself, a practical and living treatise on etymology. To know the meaning of a word thoroughly, one must know its derivation, its past history. Now, which is the better—a spelling which can easily be mastered by the veriest blockhead, or one which epitomizes, as it were, the whole meaning of a word, its history, its subtle affinities with parent tongues ? Our spelling is difficult, you say; well, what of that? Most good things are. We no longer pronounce words as they are spelled. The more shame to us! Here lies the real and most grievous fault in our language. We spell right enough for the most part, but we pronounce badly. The English-speaking race has done its utmost to bedevil its own language, by slip-shod habits of pronounciation. But, because our spoken tongue has unworthily drifted away from its honorable beginnings, shall our written language follow it, cut loose from its fellowship with the other great languages of antiquity and modern times,, and so throw away the last trace of its paternity? The man who first stopped pronouncing the g h in daughter, and began to sound the same couple of consonants in laughter as if they were a single f, did a most slovenly, lazy, and utterly contemptible thing. > It is wholly incomprehensible, to the present writer, at least, how people can point with admiration at such infantile barbarisms as the Italian ft losofia, fantasma, and the like. Such spelling is for ignoramuses and commercial travelers; it is written baby-talk. So far from phonetic spelling of this sort being a “reform,” it is a downsliding into the vulgarest mediocrity. A true “reform” would be to reinstate a worthily etymological spelling wherever time and carelessness have obliterated it. To leave the meaningless subtle and return to the expressive subtile; to put two m's into amount, so that its derivaation from ad and mons shall stare readers in the face; to put two fs into literature, as the French do, so that one may be absolutely sure that the world does not come from the past participle of linere, to besmear. It may be said that such etymological spelling is of advantage only to cultivated people, who “know Latin and Greek,” as the phrase goes. Admitted! But, in Heaven's name, who are to govern language—the educated or the vulgar? Is a spelling which speaks volumes to the educated man, which is surpassingly rich in the most pregnant associations, to be ousted by a system which tells him nothing whatever, and the only advantage of which is that foreigners and stupid bumpkins can learn it in one year instead of six ? Is the mountain to go to Mohammed, or Mohammed to come to the mountain ?— Boston Transcrivt. - Music Boxes of Geneva. I The River Rhone flows into Lake Geneva at its east end, and then flows out again on the west. I learned that in the geography, but I had to cross the Atlantic ocean to fix the fact in my mind. Geneva is situated on both sides of the rushing Rhone, at the point where it flows out of the lake on the west. It is a brisk, bright, pretty city of nearly fifty thousand inhabitants. Many English and Americans are always to be found there. Geneva is known to fame on account of jewelry, music-boxes, John Calvin and Jean Jacques Rousseau. As a paH of the regular programme, you will be shown the Protestant cathedral whose walla once echoed to the tread of that great man, John Calvin, who burnt Michael Servetus at the stake to make a good orthodox Christian out of him. The final result is not known. But the Geneva music-boxes of to-day will interest the modern tourist far more than the bones of John Calvin will. The most wonderfull small clock in the world is shown here at a watchmaker’s, an exquisite little affair in silver—clock and jewel-box in one. When the hour strikes, a tiny, jeweled bird opens its throat and sings till a mite of a cat makes a dash at it, then it suddenly disappears. The music-boxes are of all sizes, from one which you can , slip into your pocket to another as large as a piano. When some of these large ones are set going, they give the effect of a whole orchestra playing. The sound of drum, horn, violin, harp and cymbal is quite as distinct as if they were so many separate instruments. These music-boxes are, in fact, called “orchestrions.” It is not uncommon to have them in the Swiss hotel diningrooms, to play during meals. There seems a sort of magic in these strainge music-boxes. They are of all imaginable shapes. You enter a shop and ask to look at them. A monkey begins to sing to you like a mocking-bird. You are politely asked to sit down while you wait. Suddenly you start as if you had been shot. The very chair is singing, as though the demon was in it, a weird melody as sweet as the song of the Lorelei. In point of fact the enchanted cha'r is a music-box. Sitting down in the .'hing sets it going.—Cor. Cincinnati Commercial. The Wiong Box. A vicar, who is not accustomed to a very large audiance, was startled the other Sunday to find his church crammed to suffocation. There seemed nothing to account for the sudden influx, until, upon inquiry, it was discovered that a new wall box for letters had been attached to the adjacent house, bearing the legend, “No collection on Sundays!” —Judy. REV. H. P. CARSON. Scotland, Dak., saya: •Two bottles of Hall’s Catarrh Cure completely cured my little girl." Sold by Druggists, 750. She Mourned. . A Brooklyn woman attended thirtythree consecutive funerals before the police discovered that her object was to plunder the houses. Those who saw her sobbing and grieving supposed tbat she was a near and heart-broken relative. She got about SI,OOO worth of swag.

Nervous I Dyapepaia la revere form, tired and languid, no ' ambition, deep irregular, no appetite—thia waa 1 my condition when 1 began to take Hood'a Berea- , parilia. Prom the very Brat it aoomed to bo juat f what I needed. The nervoua dyapepaia haa now < entirely gone, my appetite la excellent. X oan oat / heartily without diatreaa afterwarda; I Bleep well. I and can now go about my work without having that tired feeling ao frequent before I began taking themedtcine. 1 have taken aixbottleaof Hood’s Sarsaparilla and recommend it at the Kina of Modicdnea.• J. 9 BmuLT. Proaident Beaman*a Onion. M Catherine Street. Detroit. Mich. M.B. aoHMOtogetßoodUknagaiiaa.

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