Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 November 1878 — Page 4

FALLING STARS. BY GEORGE A. COQUILLETT. I stood in the Garden City When the evening sun was set, And the air was sweet with roses And the breath of tho mignonette. And watched in the arch of heaven, In the east, the south, and north, The hands of the angels hanging The glowing night-lamps forth. Behind me lay the city. With its endless rush and roar; And I heard at my feet the murmur Of the waters upon the shore. Far out upon the water The steamer’s shriek I heard, And the broad sails of the schooner Flapped like a giant bird. Then a meteor swept above mo With a train of lurid light. I.ike the gleam from a rniglity furnace Athwart the gloom of night. And I called to mind the legend. How that each was a firo-braud Hurled by the sentinel angels That on heaven’s ramparts stand. And out of the darkened heavens , Another meteor flew, Ami deeper into my pulses The weird, wild legend drew, Till a spell came o’er my fancy, Fell a silence upon my lips. And the air seemed filled with armies ' And fleets (if battle-ships. Above the din of the city, And above the waves on the shore, I heard the aerial tumult, The rout, the rush, the roar. I saw the glittering sijuadrons Wheel into close array. 'Neath their cloudy ensigns blazoned With the brightness of the (lay; And I watched their fiery missiles As they hissed along the sky, Till an aching sense of languof Fell upon ear and eye; Till the moon low in the heavens Hung like a golden horn, And a breeze from the east came laden With the message of the morn. Woodstock, 111.

“A TOURIST FROM INJIANNY.”

We first saw him from the deck of the Unser Fritz, as that gallant steamer was preparing to leave the port of New York lor Plymouth, Havre and Hamburg. Perhaps it was that all objects at that moment become indelibly impressed on the memory of the departing voyager—perhaps it was that mere interrupting trivialities always assume undue magnitude to us when we are Avaiting for something really important —hut I retain a vivid impression of him as he appeared on the gangway in apparently hopeless, yet, as it afterward appeared, really triumphant, altercation with the Germanspeaking dcck-liands and stewards. He was not an heroic figure. Clad in a worn linen duster, his arms filled with bags and parcels, he might have been taken for a hackman carrying the luggage of his fare. But it was noticeable that, although he calmly persisted in speaking English and ignoring the voluble German of his antagonists, he in some rude fashion accomplished his object without.losing his temper or increasing his temperature, while his foreign enemy was crimson with rage and perspiring with heat; and that presently, having violated a dozen of the ship’s regulations, lie took his place by tho side of a very pretty girl, apparently liis superior in station, who addressed him as “ father.” As the great ship swung out into the stream he was still a central figure on our deck, getting into everybody’s way, addressing all with equal familiarity, imperturbable to affront or snub, but always doggedly and consistently adhering to one purpose, however trivial or inadequate) to the means employed. “ You’re sittin’ on sntliin’ o’ mine, Miss,” he began, for the third or fourth time, to the elegant Miss Montmorris, who was revisiting Europe under high social conditions. “ Jist rise up while I get it—’twon’t take a minit.”

Not, only was that lady forced to rise, but to make necessary the rising and discomposing of the whole Montmorris parly who were congregated around her. The missing “ suthin’ ” was discovered to be a very old and battered newspaper. “ It’s the Cinciimaty Times,” he explained, as he quietly took it up, oblivious to the indignant glances of the party. “ It’s a little squoshed by your sittin’ on it, but it’ll do to refer to. It’s got a letter from Payris, sliowin’ the prices o’ them tliar hotels and rist’rants, and I allowed to my darter we might want it on the other side. Thar’s one or two French names tliar'that rather gets me— mebbe your eyes is stronger;” but here the entire Montmorris party rustled away, leaving him with the paper in one hand -the other pointing at the paragraph. Not at all discomfited, he glanced at the vacant bench, took possession of it with his hat, duster and umbrella, disappeared, and presently appeared again with his daughter, a lank-looking young man, and an angular elderly female, and —so replaced the Montmorrises. When we were fairly at sea he was missed. A pleasing belief that he had fallen overboard, or had been left behind, was dissipated by liis appearance one morning, with his daughter on one arm, and the elderly female before alluded to on the other. The Unser Fritz was lolling heavily at the time, but, with his usual awkward pertinacity, he insisted upon attempting to walk tovard the best part of the deck, as ho always did, as if it were, a right and a duty. A lurch brought him and his uncertain freight in contact with the Montmorrises, there was a moment of wild confusion, two or three seats were emptied, and he was finally led away by the steward, an obviously and obtrusively sick man. But, when ho had disappeared below, it was noticed that he had secured two excellent seats for his female companions. Nobody dared to disturb the elder; nobody eared to disturb the younger —who, it may be here re-' corded, had a certain shy reserve which checked aught but the simplest civilities from the male passengers. A few days later it Avas discovered that he was not an inmate of the first, but of the second cabin; that the elderly female Avas not his Avife, as popularly supposed, but the room-mate of his daughter in the first cabin. These facts made his various intrusions on the saloon deck the more exasperating to the Montmorrises, yet the more difficult to deal with. Eventually, hoAvever, he had, tvs usual, his oaa’ii way; no place was sacred, or debarred his slouched hat and duster. They Avere turned out of the engine-room to reappear upon the bridge, they Avere forbidden the forecastle to rise a ghostly presence beside the officer in his solemn supervision of the compass. They would have been lashed to the riggin g on their Avay to the maintop, but for the silent protest of his daughter’s presence on deck. Most of liis interrupting familiar conversation Avas addressed to the interdicted “ man at the wheel.” Hitherto I had contented myself Avitli the fascination of his presence from afar—wisely, perhaps, deeming it dangerous to a true picturesque perspective to alter my distance, and perhaps, like the best of us, I fear, preferring to keep my OAvn idea of him than to run the risk of altering it by a closer acquaintance. One day when I was lounging by the stern-rail, idly watching the dogged ostentation of the screw, that had been steadily intimating, after the fashion of screws, that it Avas the only thing in the ship Avith a persistent purpose, the ominous shadoAv of the slouched hat and the trailing duster fell upon me. There Avas nothing to do but accept it meekly. Indeed, my theory of the man made ire helpless. “ I didn’t know until yesterday who you be,” ho began deliberately, “or I shouldn’t hev’ been so onsocial. But I’ve allers told my darter that in permis-

kiss travlin’ a man ought to be keerful of who he meets. I’ve read some of your writin’s—read ’em in a paper in Injianny—but I never reckoned I’d meet ye. Things is queer, and travlin’ brings all sorter people together. My darter Looeze suspected ye from the first, and she worried over it, and kinder put me up to this.” The most delicate flattery could not have done more. To have been in the thought of this reserved, gentle girl, who scarcely seemed to notice even those who had paid her attention was “She put me up to it,” he continued calmly, “though she, herself, hez a kind o’ pre-judise again you and your writin’s —tliinkin’ them sort o’ low doAvn, and the folks talked about not to her style—and ye know that’s woman’s nater, and she and Miss Montmorris agree on that point. But tliar’s a few friends with me round yer ez Avould like to see yeT He stepped aside, and a dozen men appeared in- Indian file from behind the round-house, and, with a solemnity known only to the Anglo-Saxon nature, shook my hand deliberately, and then dispersed themselves in various attitudes against the railings. They were honest, well-meaning countrymen of mine, but I could not recall a single face. There was a dead silence; the screw, however, ostentatiously went on. “You see Avhat I told you,” it said. “ This is all vapidity and trifling. I’m the only felloAv here with a purpose. Whiz, whiz; chug, chug, chug!” I was about to make some remark of a general nature, when I was greatly relieved to observe my companion’s friends detach themselves from the railings, and, with a slight boAV and another shako of the hand, severally retire, apparently as much relieved as myself. My companion, Avho had in the meantime acted as if he had discharged himself of a duty, said, “ Thar oilers must be somo one to tend to this kind o’ thing, or thar’s no sociableness. I took a deppytation into the Cap’n’s room yesterday to make some proppysitions, and thar’s a minister of the gospel aboard ez orter be spoke to afore next Sunday, and I reckon it’s my duty, onless,” he added, with deliberate and formal politeness, “you’d prefer to do it—bein’, so to speak, a public man.” But the public man hastily deprecated any interference Avith the speaker’s functions, and, to change the conversation, remarked that he had heard that there Avere a party of Cook’s tourists on board, and — Avere not the preceding gentlemen of the number ? But the question caused the speaker to lay aside liis hat, take a comfortable position on the deck against the rail, and, draA\ r ing his knees up under his chin, begin as follows: “ Speaking o’ Cook and Cook’s tourists, I’m my own Cook! I reckon I calkilate and know every cent that I’ll spend ’twixt Evansville, Injianny, and Borne and Naples, and everything I’ll see.” He paused a moment, and, laying his hand familiarly on my knee, said, “ Did I ever tell ye how i kem to go abroad ? ”

As avc h id never spoken together before, it Avas safe to reply that he had not. He rubbed his head softly Avith his hand, knitted his iron-gray broAvs, and then said, meditatively, “ No! it must hev been that head-waiter. He sorter favors you in the musstaclie and gen’ral get-up. I guess it war him I spoke to.” I thought it must have been. “ Well, then, this is the way it kem about. I Avas sittin’ one night, about three months ago, Avith my darter Looeze—mv Avife bein’ dead some four year —and I Avas reading to her out of the paper about the Exposition. She sez to me, quiet-like—she’s a quiet sort o’ gal, if you ever notissed her—‘l should like to go tliar.’ I looks at her—it was the first time sense her mother died that that gal had ever asked for anything, or had, so to speak, a wish. It Avasn’t her way. Sho took everything ez it kem, and deni my skin es I ever could toll Avlietlier she ever Avantcd it to kem in any other Avay. I never told ye this afore, did I?” “ No,” I said, hastily. “Go on.” He felt his knees for a moment, and then dreAv a long breath. “ Perhaps,” he began, deliberately, “ye don’t knoAV that I’m a poor man. Seein’ me here among these rich folks, goiu’ abroad to Paree with the best, o’ them, and Looeze tliar -in the first cabin—a lady, ez she is—ye wouldn’t b’leeve it, but I’m poor? I am. Well, sir, Avlien that gal looks up at me and sez that —I hadn’t but sl2 in my pocket and I ain’t the durned fool that I look—but suthin’ in me—sntliin’, you kiiOAv, a Avay back in me—sez, you shall! Loo-ey, you shall! and then I sez—repeatin’it, and looking upright in her eyes, ‘ You shall go, Loo-ey ’ —did you ever look in my gal’s eyes ? ” I parried that someAvliat direct question by another, “ But the $12 —lioav did you increase that ? ”

o’ work here and there, overtime—l’m a machinist. I used to keej) this yer overwork from Loo—saying I had to see men in the evenin’ to get pints about Europe—and that—.and getting a little money raised on my life-insurance, I shoved her through. And here we is. Chipper and first-class—all through—that is, Loo is! ” “ But $250! And Rome, and Naples, and return ? You can’t do it! ” Ho looked at mo cunningly a moment. “ Kan’t do it! I’ve done it ? ” “ Done it? ” “Wall, about the same, I reckon; I’ve figgered it out. Figgers don’t lie. I ain’t no Cook’s tourist; I can see Cook and give him pints. I tell you I’ve figgered it out to a cent, and I’ve money to spare. Of course, I don’t reckon to travel with Loo. She’ll go first-class. But I’ll be near her, if it’s in the steerage of a ship, or in the baggage car of a railroad. I don’t need much in the way of grub or clothes, and now and then I kin pickup a job. Perhaps you disremember that row I had in the engine-room, when they chucked me out of it ? ” I could not help looking at him with astonishment; there was evidently only a pleasant memory in his mind. Yet I recalled that I had felt indignant for him and his daughter. “ Well, that fool of a Dutchman, that chief-engineer, gives. me a job the other day. And es I hadn’t just forced my way down there, and talked sassy to him, and criticized his macheen, he’d liev never knowed a eccentric from a wagon-wheel. Do you see the pint ? ” I thought I began to see it. But I could not help asking what his daughter thought of his traveling in this inferior way. He laughed. “ When I was gettin’ up some pints from them books of travel I read her a proverb or saying outer one o’ them, that ‘only princes and fools and Americans traveled first-class.’ You see I told her it didn’t say * women,’ for they naterally would ride first-class—and Amerikan gals, being Princesses, didn’t count. Don’t you see?” If I did not quite follow his logic, nor see my way clearly into his daughter’s acquiescence through this speech, some light may be thrown upon it by his next utterance. I had risen with some vague words of congratulation on his success, and was about to leave him, when he called me back. “ Did I tell ye,” he said, cautiously looking around, yet with a smile of stifled enjoyment in his face, “ did I tell ye what that gal—my darter—sed to me ? No, I didn’t tell ye—nor no one else afore. Come here! ” He made me dfftw down closely infcq

the shadow and secrecy of the roundhouse. “ That night that I told my gal she could go abroad, I sez to her, quite chipper-like and free, ‘ I say, Looey,’ sez I, ‘ ye’ll be goin’ for to marry some o’ them Counts, or Dukes, or potentates, I reckon, and ye’U leave the old man.’ And she sez, sez she, lookin’ me squar in the eye—did ye ever notiss that gal’s eye? ” “ She has fine eyes,” I replied, cautiously. “ They is ez clean ez a fresh milk-pan and ez bright. Nothin’ sticks to ’em. Eh?” “ You are right.” “ Well, she looks up at me this way,” here he achieved a vile imitation of his daughter’s modest glance, not at all like her, “ and, looking at me, she sez quietly, ‘ That’s what I’m goin’ for, and to improve my mind.’ He! he! he! It’s a sack! To marry a nobleman and improve her mind! Ha! ha! ha! ” The evident enjoyment that he took in this, and the quiet ignoring of anything of a moral quality in his daughter’s sentiments, or in his confiding them to a stranger’s ear, again upset all my theories. I may say here that it is one of the evidences of original character, that it is apt tp baffle all prognosis from a mere observer’s standpoint. But I recalled it some months after. . We parted in England. It is not necessary, in this brief chronicle, to repeat the various stories of “ Uncle Joshua,” as the younger and more frivolous of our passengers called him, nor that twothirds of the stories repeated were utterly at variance Avitli my estimate of the man, although, I may add, I was also doubtful of the accuracy of my OAvn estimate. But one quality Avas alAvays dominant—his restless, dogged pertinacity and calm imperturbability! “He asked Miss Montmorris if she ‘ minded ’ singin’ a little in the second cabin to liven it up, and added, as an inducement, that they didn’t know good music from bad,” said Jack Walter to me. “ And, Avhen he mended the broken lock of my trunk, he abtholutely propotlied to me to atlik Gouthin Grath if thee didn’t want a ‘ koorier ’ to travel Avitli her to ‘do mechanics,’ provided thee would take charge of that dreadfully deaf-and-dumb daughter of his. Wothn’t it funny? Really, he’th one of your characters,” said the youngest Miss Montmorris to me as Ave made our adieu on the steamer. I am afraid he Avas not, although he Avas good enough afterAvard to establish one or two of my theories regarding him. I was enabled to assist -him once in an altercation he had Avith a cabman regarding the fare of his daughter, the cabman retaining a distinct impression that the father had also ridden in some obscure way in or upon the' same cab — as he undoubtedly had—and I grieve to say, foolishly. I heard that he had forced his way into a certain great house in England, and that he was ignominiously rejected, but I also heard that ample apologies had been made to a certain quiet, modest daughter of his avlio Avas Avitliout on the laAvn, and also that a certain Personage, whom I approach, even in this vague way, with a capital letter, had graciously taken a fancy to the poor child, and had invited her to a reception. But this is only hearsay evidence. So also is the story which met me in Paris, that he had been up with his daughter in the captive balloon, and that at an elevation of several thousand feet from the earth he had made some remarks upon the attaching cable and the drum on Avliich the cable revolved, which not only excited the interest of the passengers, but attracted the attention of the authorities, so that he Avas not only given a gratuitous ascent afterward, but Avas, I am told, offered some gratuity. But I shall restrict this narrative to the few facts of Avhicli I was personally cognizant in the career of this remarkable man. I was at a certain entertainment given in Paris by the heirs, executors, and assignees of an admirable man, long since gathered to his fathers in Pere la Chaise, but whose Shakspeare-like bust still looks calmly and benevolently down on the riotous revelry of absurd wickedness of which lie was, when living, the patron saint. The entertainment was of such a character that, while the performers Avere chiefly Avomen, a majority of the spectators Avere men. The few exceptions were foreigners, and among them I quickly recognized my fair fellow-countrywomen, the Montmorrises. “ Don’t thay that you’ve tlieen us here,” said the youngest Miss Montmorris, “ for ith only a lark. Ith awfully funny! And that friend of yourth from Injianny ith here with hith daughter.” It did not take me long to find my friend Uncle Joshua’s serious, practical, unsympathetic face in the front i-oav of tables and benches. But beside him, to my utter consternation, was his shy and modest daughter. In another moment I was at his side. “I really think—l am afraid—” I begau in a whisper, “ that you have made a mistake. I don’t think you can be aivare of the character of this place. Your daughter—” “ Kem here Avith Miss Montmorris She’s yer. It’s all right.” I was at my Avits’ end. Happily, at this moment, Mile. Rochefort, from the Orangie, skipped out in the quadrille immediately before us, caught her light skirts in either hand, and executed a pas that lifted the hat from the eyes of some of the front spectators and pulled it down over the eyes of others. The Montmorrises fluttered aAvay with a a half-hysterical giggle and a' half-con-founded escort. The modest-looking Miss Loo, who had been staring at everything quite indifferently, suddenly stepped forward, took her father’s arm, and said, sharply, “ Come.” At this moment a voice in English, but unmistakably belonging to the politest nation in the world, rose from behind the girl, mimickingly. “My God! it is shocking. I bloosh! Oh, dammit! ”

In an instant he was in the hands of “ Uncle Joshua,” and forced back clamoring against the railing, his hat smashed oyer his foolish, furious face, and half his shirt and cravat in the old man’s strong grip. Several students rushed to the rescue of their compatriot, but one or two Englishmen and half a dozen Americans had managed, in some mysterious way, to bound into the arena. I looked hurriedly for Miss Louisa, but she was gone. When we had extracted the old man from the melee, I asked him where she was. “ Oh, I reckon she’s gone off with Sir Arthur, I saw him here just as I pitched into that dam fool.” “ Sir Arthur? ” “ Yes, an aquaintance o’ Loo’s.” “ She’s in my carriage, just outside,” interrupted a handsome young fellow, with the shoulders of a giant and the blushes of a girl. “ It’s all over now, you know. It was rather a foolish lark, you coming here with her without knowing—you know—anything about it, you know. But this way—thank you. She’s waiting f®r you,” and in another instant he and the old man had vanished. Nor did I see him again until he stepped into the railway carriage with me on his way to Liverpool. “ You see I’m trav’lin’ first class now,” he said, “ but goin’ home I don’t mind a trifle extry expense.” “ Then you have made your tour,” I asked, “ and are successful ? ” “ Wall, yes, we saw Switzerland and Italy, and, if I hedn’t been short o’ time, we’d hev gone to Egypt. Mebbe next winter I’ll run over again to see Loo, and do it.” “ Then your daughter does not return with you?” J contin-

ned, in some astonishment. “ Wall, no —she’s Arisiting some of Sir Arthur’s relatives in Kent. Sir Arthur is there—perhaps you recollect him ? ” He paused a moment, looked cautiously around, and, with the same enjoyment he had shown on shipboard, said, “Do yon remember the joke I told you on Loo, when she was at sea? ” “ Yes.” “ Well, don’t ye say anything about it nou\ But dam my skin if it doesn’t look like coming true.” And it did. —Bret Harte.

FARM NOTES.

Plant all hardy fruits. Be gentle and kind unto your colts. Clear up stones, stumps and rubbish. Harvest the sugar beets and mangels -leave the parsnips and salsify. Many farmers will buy seeds because they are cheap, and run the risk of half of them being worthless. In many cases they should know that pure live seeds cannot be raised, gathered and sold for such prices. Thus a bid is offered for dishonest practices, and the buyer is as culpable, as the seller. Fultz wheat is pronounced by the American Miller the “best in the market.” Among its merits are: Stiff straw; does not lose any grain in handling; lies so compact that it takes less room in moAv or stack than any other; Weighs when clean sixty-four pounds per bushel, and makes flour ex.celled by none. Mr. Geo. T. Powell, Ghent, N. Y., agricultural editor of the Chatham Courier, dries ten bushels of apples daily in a small building with racks, and heated by a cylinder stove placed horizontally, and the finished fruit looks Avliite and clean enough to eat—which is more than can be said of that dried by sun and dust-bearing wind, and visited by egg-laying insects innumerable. A correspondent of the Practical Farmer says that in the spring of 1877 he planted thirty-five forest trees in his door-yard; nineteen of them standing in ground cultivated for flowers have groAvn, up to this time, from three to six feet; the remainder, in grass, have scarcely started at all, and “it looks as though it would take them ten years to make as much growth as the others have in lavo.” He Avas an old man, and when he came in Avitli a twenty-four-foot bamboo fish-pole and carelessly remarked that that Avas the kind of cornstalks his garden produced in a good season, we never said a word, but walked into the other room and registered a solemn voav never, never to print any more agricultural items if it led men into such mountainous exaggerations as this.— Exchange.

There is no particular reason why a coav that keeps easy is worth any more for that quality. The coav that eats the most, and, as a result, gives the most milk, is the paying animal. It pays to feed all that animals Avill eat and assimilate. This is the season when bran and meal are given to supplement the shortened pasture. It is Avell to remember that meal is fattening, while bran is milk-producing. A mixture of the two is excellent for coavs that are fattening, while at the same time the owner desires to get a good lot of milk. In answer to a correspondent Avho writes that his 3-year-old colt has some Avind-galls or wind-puffs on the hind legs, a little beloAV or in front of the hocks, the National Live-Stock Journal says: “ Wind-galls depend on the accumulation of synovia in the tendinous sheaths. By Avet, tight linen bandaging, and a feAv days’ rest, they may be reduced in young animals, or-when not of long standing. In middle-aged animals, and when they are the result of hard Avork, they cannot he reduced permanently. Blisters may be required for their removal; but after any mode of treatment they Avill return whenever the animal goes to severe or fast Avork.” It may be useless to mention the matter to the person Avho has left things “ lying around handy ” until this time of the year. But avo must say again: Pick up a little, and make- your farm and surroundings attractive, just once, at any rate, and see how it seems. Keep things in place; sleek up; clean, brush out the fence corners; place the tools under the shed instead of lea\ r ing them sown broadcast along the road in front ofc tho barn, or in the fields. If an implement is used up, burn the Avood Avork and sell the old iron before Avintering it several years to alloAV it to decay and fall to pieces before your eyes. A little time siient in keeping things tidy produces a good effect on the children, on visitors, on strangers Avho pass by, and, above all, on the man Avho sees to the Avork.— Rural New- Yorker. Taking into consideration all the necessary comforts to the horse, no better stable floor can be constructed than pine plank, having a fall of two inches in the whole length. There should be a slight inclination toward the middle, and on no account should there be a trough or channel behind, to be a source of spavins, crooked joints, thrush, etc. A slight holloAv may be made, Avell perforated and kept open, with advantage. At the head, place a rack (no crib on any account), have a portable feed box, and board the rack to within one foot or fourteen inches of the bottom with matched boards, planed. Let the front of the rack be about eight or ten inches wide at the bottom, aad twenty inches or lavo feet at the top. This is my form of a rack noAV in use, after trying eA r ery other kind, and is by far the best, as is the floor above recommended.— Veterinary Surgeon.

Didn’t Know How.

In a toAvn near Boston there lives a good lady who suffers acutely from sciatica. She has consulted physicians far and near, but has been unsuccessful in finding any cure. Not long since she heard that a man living not far away was afflicted with the same disease in an aggravating form, and it occurred, to her that she would call upon him and ask whether he had found anything that Avould avail to lessen its terrors. She did so, and, having introduced herself, stated her errand. “Do you,” she asked, “find anything that affords, you relief ?” “Yes, marm,” he replied. “ Tavo things.” “ Pray what are they?” “ Cursing and swearing,” said the invalid. It is added that on her return home the good lady told her husband that she only regretted that she could not avail herself of this remedy. “ Not that I have any conscientious scruples,” she said, “ but I don’t know how.”

The Physiology of the Liver.

The liver is the largest secreting organ in the human body, and the bile which it secretes is more liable to vitiation and misdirection from its proper channels than any other of the animal fluids. Luckily for the bilious, however, there is an unfailing source of relief from liver complaint, namely, Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters, a medicine which for over a quarter of a century has been achieving thorough cures of the above-mentioned ailments, fever and ague, dyspepsia, bowel complaints, rheumatic and kidney affections, and disorders involving loss of nervous vigor. It is, moreover, a preventive of malarial disease, and affords protection to thousands of persons residing in districts of country where that dire scourge is prevalent. As a remedy adapted to the medicinal requirements of families it is supremely desirable, and as a means of fortifying a debilitated system it is thoroughly to be depended upon. According to the last census there are in Austria 183 men and, 22fi women pf 100 years old and over.

A Woman's Logic.

“It is useless to take medicine. I shall feel better to-morrow. Besides, I need the money to get that lovely neAv hat My old one is such a fright, and people will look more at my bonnet than they will at my face. I will wait till I feel worse before I spend any money for medi cine ” Tho. bonnet is purchased) and fifty other feminine necessaries m tho form of ribbons, laces, brooches, eta Meanwhile the lady’s face liecomes every day paler and thinner, and her body weaker, until disease has gained so firm a foothold m her system that the most thorough, and ofitimca a long anil tedious., course of treatment is necessary to restore tier lo health Ladies, attend to your health before you even think of apparel. A. fresh, blooming face in a plain bonnet is much handsomer and far more attractive to your gentlemen flicnds than a pain-worn, diseased face in the most elaborate and elegant hat your milliner could devise Dr Pioreo'a Favorite Prescription is everywhere acknowledged to bo the standard remedy for femalo complaints and weaknesses. It is sold by druggists A British tourist has made an uproar in Rheims. One night, about 8 o’clock, the town was alarmed by the sound of the tocsin, or big bell of the cathedral. The inhabitants rushed out of their houses expecting to find a revolution or a fire, but they were agreeably disappointed. The dreadful knell was merely the work of an English traveler, who, hairing been locked up in the cathedral, thought the best way to get out would be to set the big bell going. Though they may obstinately resist the action of other external remedies, ulcers containing proud flesh, swellings, tumors, leprous granulations and scrofulous sores speedily heal under the purifying and soothing influence of Henry’s Carbolic Salve, the promptest and most efficient topical application over discovered or used. It is believed that there is no chronic sore or eruption that may not bo eradicated by this incomparable purifier. Sold by all druggists. “A Slight Cold,” Coughs.— Few are aware of the importance of checking a cough or “ slight cold,” ivhich would yield to a mild remedy, if neglected, often attacks the lungs. “ Brown's Bronchial Troches ” give sure and almost immediate relief. Familiarity with the writings of the great poets is a necessity to any one who wishes to appear well in company. For 10c. wo will send a book of 160 selections from the beautiful melodies of Moore, the grand poems of Byron, and the unequaled songs of Burns, and 50 popular songs. Desmond & Co., 915 Race street, Phila.

CHEW The Celebrated “Matchless” Wood Tag Plug Tobacco. The Pioneer Tobacco Company, New York, Boston and Chicago. Fob upward of 30 years Mrs. WINSLOW’S SOOTHING SYRUP has been used for children with never-failing success. It corrects acidity of the stomach, relieves wind colic, regulates the bowels, cures dysentery and diarrhea, whether arising from teething or other causes. An old and well-tried remedy. 25 cts. a bottle. More than 30,000 Cabinet or Parlor Organs are now sold in the United States yearly. The best are those made by Mason & Hamlin, who have taken highest honors at all world’s expositions for twelve years, and are the only American makers who have taken such at any. Impure blood is the cause of more misery than any other source of disease, but this fact is often overlooked. Parsons' Purgative Pills Avill make new rich blood, and Avill change the blood in the entire system in three months, taken one a night Johnson’s Anodyne Liniment is one of the few really valuable patent medicines which we always take pleasure in calling attention to. It is both for luternal and external use, and is worth more to a family than a whole medicine chest. Hon. C. B. Parsons, Mayor of Rochester, was radically cured of Bright’s Disease by Craig’s Kidney Cure. Depot, 42 University Place, N. Y. To cleanse and whiten the teeth, to sweeten the breath, use Brown’s Camphorated Saponaceous Dentifrice. Twenty-five cents a bottle. Cheav Jackson’s Best Sweet Navy Tobacco. Dr. R. Y. Pierce, of Buffalo, N. Y., the proprietor of Dr. Pierce’s Family Medicines, and also of the Invalids’ and Tourists’ Hotel, of that city, has recently been elected to Congress by tho very flattering majority of nearly 3,000. He has already served his constituency as State Senator, and this renewed indorsement signifies that his services havo been highly satisfactory. His extensive practice in the treatment of Chronic Diseases will not, avc are informed, bo neglected or suffer in tho least when the time arrives for him to take his seat in Congress, it being intrusted to his brother and other experienced medical gentlemen Avho have long boon associated Avith the Doctor in tho Medical Department of his celebrated World’s Dispensary and Invalids’ Hotel. Besides, as the Fortysixth Congress docs not convene until December, 1879, Dr. Pierce’s patients will not lose his personal attention for some months yet.

IMPORTANT NOTlCE.—Farmers, Famine? and Other? can purchase no remedy equal to Dr. TOBIAS’ VENETIAN LINIMENT, for the cure of Cholera, Diarrhoea, Dyeontery,. Group, Oolio and Seasickness, taken Internally (It la perfectly harmless; see oath accompanying each bottle) and externally for Chronic Rheumatism, Headache, Toothache, Sore Throat, Cuts, Burns, Swellings, Bruises, Mosquito Bites, Old Sores, Pains In Limbs, Back and Ohest. The VENETIAN LINIMENT was Introduced In 1847, and on one who has used it but continues to do so, many stating if it was Ten Dollars a Bottle they would not be without it. Thousands of Certificates can he seen at the Depot, speaking of Its wonderful curative properties. Sold by the Druggists at 40 eta. Depot, 42 Murray street. Now York.

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Sedatives and Stimulants versus Tonics. Alcohol—Cheers, inebriates, leaving depression. Fellows’ Hypophosphites gives vivacity and buoyancy, leaving energy. ODium—Soothes, narcotizes and depresses. Fellows’ Hypophosphites—Stimulates, unimates and invigorates. Opium—Renders the nerves insensible to pain but lowers nervous vitality. Fellows’ Hypophosphites—Causes man to be regardless of pain by raising nervous vitality. Ooium pulls down, lellows’ Hypophosphites builds tip. Opium poisons. Fellows’ Hypophos. is the nntidote. Alcohol poisons. Fellows’ Hypophos. is the antidote. Tobacco poisons. Fellows* Hypophos. is the antidote. Debil ty and disease from any cause is po ; son. Fellows’ Hypophosphites is ever the antidote. It has already accomplished more good than all other remedies combined. It never fails when used as directed. It cures the sick, sustains the drooping and preserves the healthy. Ever mending, never marring. FELLOWS’ HYPOPHOSPHITES is used successfully in diseases of the Blood, Nerves Muscles, Bones, in the functions of digestion, nutrition, thinking, understanding, hearing, seeing, feeling, tasting and smelling, and even speaking, wherever there is no organic loss. For particulars see Follows’ “ Medical Monthly,” at all Druggists. J. N. HARRIS A CO., Western Agents. Cincinnati, Ohio. QQQDAA YEAR* How io Flake It. New Agent* PO£ <* *OINGE> St, Louie, ft!*

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7011 CM CUB IMM By the Same Means We Cured Ours.

Catarrh of Head and Bowels* Deafness, Etc. 167 Thirtieth St., Chicago, Jan. 1,1878. Dr. O. R. SYKE3 —Dear Sir: 1 was a gieat sufferer from Catarrh for ab iut twelve years previous to March, 1876. The disease located mainly in my beau and bowels, causing painful ulcerations in my nose, and I could scarcely breathe through that Important organ. During the last two years of thaVJHne tne catarrhal condition of the bowels resulted ill ulceration, and the discharges and other appearances were much like a chronic dianhea. The stomach was also involved, and this organ.together with the bowels, would at times become so distended as to become terribly uncomfortable, then relax, until “ I feel all gone,” is the best expression I can give for it. My eyes were badly affected, but, worse to me if possible than all th** rest, was a deafness that neatly dis abled me for business. It came to be so bad at. last that, at chu ch I had to take a front seat, and even then, with my hand spread out back of the ear to catch and concentrate the sound, I seemed to miss about h 1. the sermon. My memory was also greatly imp ired. I shall not nt tempt a dose ipfcton of my sufferings; you, from y >ui own knowl dge of the disease, can well judge wh.it they must have be-n. In March. *76, I heard of ahd tried you* "SURE CURE,” and took it according to directions; I experienced great SAt sfaction from the first butte. and aft -r about four bottles were used, ray hearing suddenly cleared up; l was in church at the time, and it seemed as if a new revelation h d been opened up to me. I discontinued the medicine gradually, the ulcers in my head and bowels he led, the chaos in my brain was rest-red to or er, in fact l Could bear, and sinel 1 , and breathe through my nosi», and h*fe been free from the dise sc since that time. I cheerfully recommend your ‘SURE CURE” to all like ruffeiers, and have known suvera cases of catarrhal colds that jie.’ded promptly to the remedy. Wi hing you a 44 Happy New Year’ 1 in your noble work, I am respectfully and gratefully yours, A. C. DAVIS. Nose Raw—Bones Eaten Out. 148 N. Ada St., Chicago, Sejit. 10. 1877. Over two year ago I was cur.d by l)r. Sykes* remedies The w:i le insole or my left nostril was \ erfectly nw, an lit had aten e’ear around the division of the a se on the ip. Two pieces of bone had got loose a <1 :uiue out. T had not b able to smell for three years, or fa- te anything in a long time, and my longs had got jn te bad also, and l was in desoair. I had doctori d about sir m ntbs previous in goiog .vlth my husband to s *e Dr. Syk s, and. not getting any setter, but. ratner wo.se, was afraid I could not be cure •; but in abou’- ’fi-eo month) tho cure was completed in every p rticul ir, and has temair.ed so ever since. MRS. S. J. IIILSON. bright or Nine Years* Catarrh* Dyspepsia* Loss of .S.nell, Etc., Cured* I think no man ever had the Catarrh much worse than [h id fv*r eight or nine y*art The discharges from the head were perfectly awful, especially in the morcing.Aoytbin: cooking i r I couliLi't smell, and i suffered dieadfiUJy tho Dyspepsia, that I am sure proceeded from the foul Catarrh Over a vear ago I used five bottles and a half (got six) of Dr. Sykes* Sure Cure,and his Nasal Tube,and it cured me perfectly sou>hl. I have no Dvspepsia s nee: my eyes are stlonger; ears ree frein ringing; head clear, and nr* (race of Catarrh. I can smell sharp as ever,and never was so wed in ali my life as the last six month*. My advice is: *'Go a> d tin likweise .** WILLIAM SHURR, Press Foreman, Chicago Newspaper Union, 181 Fifth avenue. Chicago, Oct 31, 1873. llcuring. Sight and Memory Kcntored. FactoßY VILT. k , Cook Co., 111., March 22,1877. About the first of last February I got one bottle of your Sure Cu;e and Insufflator. I bad been suffering ub >ut three years with Catarrh. I am now using the third bottle, and have used one of 5 our Ear Specific ; and words c.innot t xniess how good I feel. lam a new man entirely. My head, which hid been completely stuffed up, is now as clear as can be ; tho swelling has all left my n<»se; uiy eyes, which bad been for two >ears dead and watery, arc now as bright as eiara nds. I Mas so deaf that I was complet'd} stupid, and I o*uld not remember anything ; now my hear.ng and memory are as good as ever. Beforo commencing with your remedies, I called on Dr. . He slid I had catarrh in its worst form, find if I did not have it cured immediately, I would, lose my hearing entirely. He said he would cure me for fortyfive dollars. So you see I have saveh over forty dollars, as your n o Heine has me only about four dollars, and I ecu Id not expect more from it if it had oost me four hundred. You can use this as you wish with the greatest pleasure. WM. MURRAY. To Dr. C. R. Sykes. Child of Five Years.—Terrible Scent Cured. Mrs. M. M. Stacy, 582 Fulton St., Chicago, March, 1875, brought her only daughter of five years to my office. She scented so bud from her bead as to bo soon noticed, Her mother said : 44 It seems half tho time as though I could not die 6» her.” Had been so about *a year, and foued nothing to do her any good. April 22, 1875, Mrs. Stacy wroto as follows: “To say that your treatment for my little daughter was all that you recommended, wculd expiess it but feebly, for I think in hei case it has surpassed your expectations, as one bottle of your *Suro Cure* has wrought nearly a cure, if not wholly, for her. lam only too happy to add my name to your list of wonder: ul cures.** [No more was needed : the cure was complete.] 5 Came Home to Die—Kcturncd Cured. On the 11th of September, 1876, Miss Annie Green, aged twenty-four, was brought to me by her mother for treatment. Hor palate (tho Uvula) was entirely gone, and a hole ns Luvo as tho end of my thumb, iUttened, was eaten through the \eil above, also a bo.e thruuga fr.im the inner to the outside of the nose as large as a pipe-stem. These >r©r© »© f«t.id as to be almost unendurable, and as raw as they possibly could Her throat and stomach were completely deranged. Lungs weak and sore, with bad cough, no appetite and great general debility : her weight was reduced to only eighty-five pounds. She had been living in Colorado, where she had been treated by several pbysicans. at an expense of nearly SSO0 —all in vain. She slid: 44 1 have come home to my mother to die, but from what she has heard of you sho thinks perhaps you can cure me.” Tho only me Heines I prescribed were the “Sure Cure,” 44 Liver Tonic” (with one additional ingredient), and ail ointment-. Tr.e ✓ood effects were auparent in three days and in six weeks tin* holes in palate and nose were healed sound, the breath sweet, no cough or soreness of lungs, and a gain in flooh of twenty-two pound*. She soon after returned to Colorado and went to work. In

“DR. SYKES’ SURE CURE FOR CATARRH” I* &n Internal and Local remedy, and, If rightly used, la a. sure to Ouf« Catarrrh ns Sulphur la to euro tho Itch. I had Catarrh 24 years, and, after expending oy.r $1,200 in vain, originated this plan of treatment, which cured me in 1870, and the number of cures aince is simply wonderful—the above are only given as specimens. The Sure Cure is within the roach of all; can be sent by mail or express. Price Complete, with Insufflator, $1.60. If afraid to risk the money—to a stranger—send 10 cents for a book of full information, worth ten times Its cost. (Postage stamps are good as cash.) Address C. I SYKES, I. D, 169 E. MSI SI., CM» EL f3T" The Editor wishes you to mention this Paper. This advertisement will not be repeated.

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about two nlofithf she Wrote her mother that sbe was entirely free from h«r old troubles and weighed one hundred and thirty-site pounds, making a total gain of fifty pounds _ A , , On the 16th of the following October, Miss Green, with tears of gratitude, made this, her statement, in my office, which Itook down in presence of Mrs. Ball, of 7‘2 Clayton street, and Miss Nora Gubbins.of 24 Duasold street, Chicago. DR. 0.11. BYKKB. This statement in rrpard to my daughter is true in every particular. * MRS. KATY GREEN. Sept. 18, 1877. (Miss Green is no* in Chicago—present residence, 251 Clyborne avenue.) Terrible Cnr*« New RtJTiaAND, 111.. June 17,1876. D». 0. R. Syxes— ZJ«far air: I feel it my duty to |Ws ypu a condensed history of my caao. In theioimmerOf 1872 l took a very severe cold, which settled in tny head. I paid but little attention to it. as I thought it would wear out, but it came very near wearing me out instead, as the sequel will show. I had a constant pain over tug eyes and through rtiy forehead, and the disease advanced the discharge from iny nose bePAme of n truck, yellowish matter* and voiy offensive. Finally ri.o dmease extended to my throat, and eat ifiy poldte eff ; than it extended to my tonsils and eat (Ik in both P-tt vnor did this horrible disease stop there, but in the *3*l of 1874 it eat a hole through the roof of my mouth tNaV finally got so large I could run my fore-linger up as i»i* as the first joint, a fid was Ss raw and ulcerated as it col Id be, and finally tilt* 6cent became so bad that no one could stay in t>*e room with me any length of time, In tne meantime, tto***er, I used uearly all km a •*( medicines that w£re recommended to me. In sides physicians and burgeons, and all tote** little benefit, only log tue time being, but which cost md immense amount of mouey; in Tact, nearly reduced m« to tmverty nt itat. In the spr ng of 1875 my disease assujned form of asthma, and God only knows what i suffered. I Mad to give up ali labor and was confined to the house tin? flux-t ol the time. In July, 1875, l went to Michigan ior uiy health ; from there to Northern Iowa; but continued to grow worse. Until )»fd became a burden t> m-.uiid l p-ajod to God to put tin eud to my sufferings. 1 had v my voice so that t\>r about tvfo years l could sca speak above a whisper. At last I r*solvsd to cju.o huiue and patiently await the trrim monstef -vL»o th. I passed through Chicago on thd 15ch of i«st March, b«t l newer dreamed that there was in that city such a G.*»d Samaritan as l have since found in Dr. Sykes. At Hi is time 1 was but little more than a skeleton, weighing Put one hundred pounds, aud could not walk ten rods with out breathing so h%id as to be heard i»y persons soino yards from me, aUd when I arrived home J was changed my motln r h irdly know me. A while aiunth s, I h ippened to re id one of your pamphlets er titte-'l “The True Theory dt Cat mil,“ which seemed so rational and comiK n sense, I procured lomo oi youv“ Sure Cu e lor Catarrh,” and betore 1 had finished one bottle my breath was sweat as h ,ney, and while unii.g itic hslfdozen bottles the amount of slime and matter that I raised from iny throat and lungs was truly enormous, Almost beyond belief, for it m ghfc be fronted up by qu tits, if not by gallons. Now i raise but ve y lit le, my voice is strong and clear, no more contraction ot tho air passages, or asthma, ami l feel better aua stronger than I have felt for at teast five years. I n-*w weign 142. H» pounds, and am still gaining. My fr onds here look u|»on my cure so far as “a miracle wrought from God.” And when 1 meditate upon my condition now to what it was th. ee months ago, I will otten rub my eyes and get up and walk around to make sure that I am awake—that it is not all a dieam. My mother has watched the effects of your 4 Sure Cure * on me with an interest such as nor.e but a widowed mother can feel for an only son. And every night, and morning, when wo bow around our family altar, we oiler up an earnest prayer that you may be blessed and prospered. t h. thanks be to God and to Dr. Sykes that 1 have been spared such a horrible death. My dear sir, 1 owe you a debt that 1 never can repay. My heart overflows with gratitude to you for the kind interest you have taken in my case—a stranger, and if you think best you may publish this letter, and it any one doubts for a moment the truth or veracity of this plain statemet t, I would refer them to Marcena A. H.oks, or Win. 11. Webber, both the most influential citizens < f our t wn. Respectfully yours, PKRCYT. ODKKIIiK. [Mr. O. w«s completely cured, and taught school in Donon. Fay el te county, lowa, a>l the following winter.aml the next summer followed bookkeeping,in bond dn Lac, VVis. In No-ember, 1877, lie atay» d one week with me* where he was seen by many persons.] Another Wonder—Chunks and Bones. Subligna, Chattooga Co., Ga., Sept. 21, 1877. I write to thank you for the wonderful cure you have wrought on me by your medicine— 44 The Sure Cure ’* No wmds can explain the severity of my case or express thn gratitude 1 fv-el, for I am sure your remedy has saved me not only from unspeakable suffer ng but from ti e very verge of tho grave. My neighbors and phjsicians (I had tried a dozen doctors) look upon my cure as being almost miraculous. For f< ur years .past 1 had suffered from Catarrh, Headache, Neuralgia and occasional lung troubles, so severe at times as to be confined to my bed. During last November my ears and nostrils became so tender 1 bad to cover them with llannels even in this warm climate, when I went out doors. In January 1 had neuralgia 26 hours, so severe I was in perfect agony, then my in hi nls began discliarg ng a blue, offensive corruption, growing gradually yel ow und ttiick. I fe t weak and dinoi-ted all over. My nostrils finally closed up so I could not breathe through them, and if I wont to sleep it was to bo awakened every few minutes with strangling and suffocation. I had not had a minute’s eas * in months, and my sufferings were indescribable. It was in this condition, after having tried all tho remedies and physicians in my reach, that I began taking the “Sure Cure.” It relieved me in eight hours so that I slept nearly all nipht, and in the morning I felt like a new man. The third day the matter began coining away in large lumps, and the quantity passod in three days was simply incredible This continued at intervals for aboutforty days, when in trying to ch ar iny head tho whole thingseemedtobreaklou.se iu the upper part of my head uud fall into the air passages, neariy choking me ; by means «»f a crooked instrument I succeeded in h:eul;ing it up into suriil lumps and pulling and hawking t out. When I got it nil out there wan a gill measure full of the tough haid lumps and softer matter. I will send you some of these excretions and bits of bone that worked out of my nose. Your Far Specific has given me equal satisfaction with iho 44 Sure Cure.” It is now over a month since L re polled tho fact of mv euro to you. I inclose money for two of my neighbors ; the r symptoms are described on a separate sheet. Our doctors have failed to help them. My wire aud children join in gia’itude to God and to y,,u as an instrument n His hands for restoring to them a husband and a t *tb r. God bless you GEO. U. POS’D.EIi.

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