Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 December 1878 — Page 4

THE CHRISTMAS CHIMES. Upon the midnight air what bells are pealing, And, through the silent streets, what echoes stealing, To wake the sleeper to a conscious feeling. ' ’Tis Christmas mom, with all its blithesome cheer; Christ's day, the happiest of the livelong year; Christ's day, triumphant Love defeating Fear 1 Ah! the countless stars of heaven sparkle when This hour draws near, and angels cry again: “ Glory to God—on earth peace, good will toward men I ” And now I hear them pass my silent doors— The merry carolers —by twos and fours, Binging the- same sweet song, which swells and soars Until their notes with other singers blend, While heavenward the chorus doth ascend: “ And every knee before T£y throne shall bend.” Yet, hear the bells, how heartily they ring! How joyously and happily they sing The Christ is bom—Hail! hail I your King! truth. Clear ring the bells of fearless Truth, As if their tongues would call, forsooth, I am the Way, the Truth, the life! ” What! think you in your worldly strife That Policy can make a way Where Principle’s effulgent ray Should shed abroad its flashing light, Nor cease to guide the pilgrim right! »uSTICK. The brazen bells, doep-toned and loud Through foggy mist and stormy cloud, Call for the steward to report: To stand before his Judge in court— To there glvo in the Lord's amount And certify to his account; But, should he trembling, fainting, fail, Blind Justice drops him from her scale. MERCY. Thank God! the bells of Mercy ring, Oh sinner bold, to thee we bring Salvation free, for Christ is born— This is His glorious birthday mom ! He’s knocking at your door to-day; He loves you still—turn not away. King out I ye bells of Mercy, ring! Immanuel, Savior, Lord and King! PAITH. The bells of Faith strike clear and strong; There’s not a note about them wrong; “The ovidenco of things unseen ” Leads pilgrims on to pastures green— A road o'er which our fathers trod. And proved, by works, their faith in God. Now all with thankful hearts may sing: “ Hlmply to Thy cross I cling.” HOPE. The bells of Hope, with anchor’s crest, Are by each doubting sinner blest. Their cheering tones, to many ears, Allay the paiu of puzzling fears; But, as each bell in turn is rung, It swings around to where are hung The bells of Faith, and it is there Your trusting mother kneels in prayer. CHARITY. The silver bells of Charity. Oh, bells of greatest rarity! Of sisters three thou art the chief. To Pain and Sorrow. Death and Grief A welcome friond; thy voice is sweot, And cheers on homeward erring feet, While angols cry, with one accord. “ Well done, thou faithful of the Lord! ” THE lIELI.S TOGETHER. Go in, go in. go in; Go, search tliy heart to-day, And, in thy closet dim. Pray to the Babe that lay In the manger— from the skios — God’s atoning sacrifice. Go out, go out. go out; Go, find the poor to-duy; With light hearts search about. Toil of the Babo that lay In the manger—from the skies— Faith and Love Ho glorifies. Oo up. go up, go up; Go to the church to-day— For you He drained the cup; For you a babo He lay In the manger—from the skies— Trusting hearts He purifies. Go down, go down, go down; Go, seek tho vile to-day; Find the pris'ners of the town; Tell of the Babe that lay In the manger—from the skies— Sinful souls He purifies. Whate’er you are, whato’er you do, God’s Christinas chimes ring out for you.

DAVID OAKTREE; OR, Hetty’s Christmas Present.

BY W. H. WHITE.

Oaktree farm is situated in the immediate vicinity of Oldtown, a picturesque little port of entry in Ocean county. The owner and occupant in 187— was Elias Oaktree, the son of Enoch, the son of Abijah, who was the son of Obed, and so on into the dimness of tho Oaktree past. The Oaktrees, it will be seen, were deeply rooted in tho soil. The founder of the family, old Adam Oaktree, left the mother country in tho evening of his days, to settle amid the Eden-like pastures of Ocean county, so long ago that the record of tho event has been almost effaced by the dust of centuries. From that remote period, each successor to tho estate has been content to follow in tho beaten tracks of his ancestors, mostly cattle-paths, for the Oaktrees were great graziers, besides being famous producers of cheese and butter; while as milk-dealers they have ever been considered the very cream of their class. It is something singular that but one Oaktree had ever been born in a generation ; ft younger son was xlnknown to the race, while no daughter had ever made an appearance. Tho son of the owner, at the time of the opening of our story, was David Oaktree, who had arrived at the mature age of 25 years. Daniel stood about five feet nine in his worsted stockings; ho was broad-shouldered, deep-chested, compactly built, muscular; a very Hercules in strongth. His hair was brown, his eyes hazel, his features regular, with a complexion healthfully sun-burned. A neighbor of theOaktreoswas Darius Seaton, who livod in a rambling old homestead with his wife, Ruth; and his daughter, Mehitable. The latter was a graceful little rustic, of twenty years, violet-eyed, and with hair of a deep auburn hue. Without question, Miss Mehitable was the prettiest girl in Oldtownship. She was of happy nature; her laugh was melody, her smile a ray of sunshine. It was delightful—especially to David—to see that smile beaming upon her red-ripe lips, gleaming in her violet-blue eyes, peeping out of dimples, to ripple in merry waves over cheeks and chi*. “Hetty ” (as all but the most staid of her old-time relatives and friends called her) and David were lovers, engaged in due form. They were to be united matrimonially, on “one of these days,” but which one had not yet been definitely settled upon. There was another ardent admirer of firetty Hetty Seaton in the neighborlood, a well-to-do member of another deep-rooted family in Ocean county. His name was Beriah Thorn. He was fully six feet in height; shapely, and as strong as a young giant. His thick, coarse hair was of the hue of a crow’s feathers. His eyes were deeply set and coal black, and, although bis complexion was as tawny as a half-breed Indian’s, yet a handsomer face was not borne by any man in the ceunty. One bright crisp afternoon in December—it was the day before Christmas, David returned to Oaktree by rail from New York, after a stay of two weeks in the great metropolis, whither he had been sent by his father on business connected with the farm. The first person he met after leaving the station was an old acquaintance, Elnathan Fern, who had an important story to tell, namely, that Hetty Seaton was about to be married to Beriah Thorn—Beriah himself had so told Elnathan. But the story was false. Hetty had written to David, in answer to his loving letters, and had given the missives to her father; but he, being busy with farm affairs, intrusted them, for mailing, to Thom, and what disposition the latter made of the tender things is a mystery to this day. David listened to Elnathan, and, as the story was repeated by others, and as the promised letters had not reached him, and being withal of a somewhat jealous nature, he accepted the lie as a tale of truth. The immediate consequence was that our hero, for the first time in his life, fuddled his brain with the then popular Ocean county beverage palled “apple-jack.” Under the px-

citement produced by this potent tipple, David sallied forth about an hour before sundown, to see Hetty and give her a “piece of his mind.” She was not at home, but had gone to call on Miss Lamb, a neighbor, so Mrs. Seaton said. Mad with disappointment, jealousy and apple-jack, Oaktree dashed off in search of Miss Mehitable Seaton. An hour after, David Oaktree returned to Seaton’s house, with Hetty in his arms, insensible, and bleeding from a terrible wound in the head. He laid the- poor girl upon a sofa, and, merely saying, “I am going for the doctor,” rushed from the house. He had been gone a short time when Beriah Thom came staggering in, with his face horribly mangled. “"What is the meaning of all this, Beriah Thom! ” exclaimed Mrs. Seaton. “It means that David Oaktree has tried to do murder.” “ What! did David Oaktree cut this awful gash on my daughter’s head?” shrieked the exasperated woman. “Yes; and then nearly murdered me for interfering. And here is the weapon he used,” exhibiting an old spade handle, stained with blood, and having a quantity of long aubum-hued hair clinging to it. Hetty began to revive. She opened her eyes and exclaimed, “ David! where is David? What is the matter with my head ? ” “ Don’t mention his name again, the murdering wretch! ” cried the indignant mother. “ Here’s the very club he tried to kill you with. I should think you’d had enough of him.” “ Tried to kill me! It is impossible. I don’t remember anything about it. Did David strike me ? ” “ Yes, Hetty,” gasped Beriah, from an old arm-chair in which he had thrown himself. “ Your mother is right. David Oaktree tried to kill you, and nearly murdered me. I wish the doctor would come. lam sick. I—I—” Before he could finish, Beriah slid from the chair in a dead faint. Hetty was bewildered. The blow upon her head had “ shocked her system through and through,” as her mother pertinently remarked, and had caused such a confusion of memory that she could not recall the slightest particular concerniug tho manner in which she had been hurt. Her father, as well as Mrs. Seaton, sided with Thorn, and, by tho time David returned with Dr. Solon, Hetty, in spite of herself, was made to believe that Beriah’s story was true. The elder Seaton hotly accused Oaktree of the bloody deed, repeating Thorn’s charges again and again, and exhibiting the blood-stained spade-handle in proof of the accusation! Hetty was silent. “Do you believe it, Hetty?” asked David, excitedly, when Mrs. Seaton’s tongue had ceased, from sheer exhaustion. The suffering girl, among whose exuberant curls the doctor was busy with Mrs. Seaton’s scissors and a saturated sponge, closed her eyes and made no reply. Cut to the heart, David exclaimed, piteously, “Oh, Hetty, Hetty, say you don’t believe it!”

She opened her eyes and said, faintly, “I can’t recollect how I was hurt. But, David, you did act and talk strangely. Your words were cruel, cruel! And you nearly killed Beriah, too.” Doctor Solon now interfered. “There has been too much talking done. Miss Seaton must not be excited,” he said. “Do you believe me guilty, doctor?” said David. “Well, I can’t say; don’t know. But the evidence is all against you. Mrs. Seaton, get another basin of milk-warm water and wash Thorn’s face. He has received an ugly wound. His nose is demolished. Oaktree, you have done some bloody work this evening. You had better leave Qldtown in haste, and look to your safety.” David was crushed in spirit, seeing that all were against him. He knelt by the side of Hetty, who lay pale as marble, and again unconscious. “God knows,” he said, “I never harmed this dear augel. I did strike Beriah Thorn, and if I had killed him I should not be sorry. He deserves to die, curse him!” Then, kissing Hetty tenderly and shaking his fist at Thorn, Oaktree left the house. The next morning David was arrested on the beach near Oldtown, whore he had been wandering all night, in a state of semi-stupor. A few days after the case was investigated by Justice Bright. Thorn, whose evidence was given as he lay in bed, testified strongly against his rival. The result was that David Oaktree was held to await tho action of the Grand Jury, on a charge of “assault and battery, with an intent to kill.” The Grand Jury of Ocean county met soon afterward. Oaktree’s case was the first investigated. The jury thought the evidence was strong enough to justify them in finding a true bill against Oaktree, who was accordingly locked up in the county jail and held for trial. The Court of Oyer and Terminer was to meet in Oldtown the next week, and David’s case was the first on the docket. His father, mother and friends visited him frequently, but brought with them no comfort, for they really believed him to be guilty. They thought, it is true, ho had acted under the influence of liquor; but that was rather an aggravation than an excuse in the eyes of the moral community of Oldtown and vicinity. On the morning of the day of trial it was found that David had escaped from prison. Search was diligently made, but without success. Two weeks subsequently the body of a drowned man was found upon the beach; and this body was identified as that of David Oaktree; and the drowning was thought to be an act oifelo de se. After a long illness, Hetty Seaton recovered. But, though restored to bodily health, mentally she was far from well. The cloud over her memory remained as dark as ever; her cheerful spirits were gone. She became melancholy, with little resemblance to the merry, laughing Hetty of former days. Time sped. Beriah Thom, whose good lo*ks were forever gone, offered himself matrimonially to Miss Seaton. His offer was backed by the parental Seatons, and by most of the family friends. But Hetty refused him firmly, almost fiercely. His lands, his backers, his money, the risk he had incurred in her defense—according to his oft-re-peated story—were unavailing. Taking Hetty’s emphatic “No!” as a final answer, Mr. Beriah Thorn retired sullenly to his oows and his cabbages, to chew the cud of revengefully bitter fancies. David Oaktree’s father and mother meurned the loss of their son deeply, finding no comfort save in hard work, and it must be admitted that they assiduously sought their consolation. A few months after her recovery, Hetty Seaton visited New York, for the first time in her life. A cousin of the Seatons, Mrs. Yerdan, a wealthy, childless widow, had, when Hetty was on the younger side of her teens, offered to adopt the pretty little rustic. The proposal which was then refused was now renewed, and gladly accepted. In her new home, surrounded by all the softening influences which wealth, controlled by education and adorned with refinement, ever exerts we will leave Hetty for the present, and turn our attention to other affairs. Seven years after in the month of November— the ship “ Invincible,” frqiq Cadiz bqund to New York, was wrecked on the coast a few jailss from Oldtown.

The crew and passengers were saved. The ship soon became a complete wreck, from which nothing not worn upon the persons of the rescued was saved. One of the passengers, an American, soon discovered that the shore upon which he had been cast formed a part of Ocean county, of which he was once a resident. The quondam citizen repaired without delay to Oaktree, where he received a joyous welcome from old Elias and Patience his wife. The news was quickly bruited abroad that David Oaktree had returned, alive and welL The greatest excitement that had prevailed in Oldtown since the famous inquest was the immediate result. The ultimate consequences were more serious. Beriah Thom still lived and cherished his old animosity against our hero. Time, which usually lays a healing hand on such social sores, had intensified the bitterness of Beriah. Actuated by this feeling, he caused a warrant to be issued for David’s arrest, upon the old charge, and when the sun first set upon him after his return the wanderer was viewing the resplendent scene from the west window of the strongest cell in the county jail. Four weeks subsequent to his arrest, our hero was arraigned before the Court of Oyer and Terminer for Ocean county. He pleaded “Not guilty.” The trial proceeded. [The District Attorney stated the points he intended to prove. “It is one of the clearest cases I was ever connected with,” he said. “There is absolutely nothing to rebut the evidence against the accused. Mr. Oaktree, you had better confess your guilt, and throw yourself upon the mercy of the court.” “ Even to please such a Daniel in the law as you seem to be, I shall not alter my plea, I am not guilty, sir! ” was David’s bitter reply. “ I can make it clear to the court that you are! ” snarled Mr. Fox,the District Atomey. Mr. and Mrs. Seaton were examined. Their evidence explained the relations between David Oaktree and Mehitable Seaton, and the rivalry of Thorn and the accused. This was to show that there was a motive for the assault. Others testified to the intense excitement of David on the eventful day. This was done to make it appear that a condition of mind existed that would incite to deeds of violence. Beriah Thorn was sworn. “You saw the assault, Mr. Thom?” queried the District Attorney. “Yes, sir, all of it,” was the prompt reply. “Who were present beside yourself?” “Miss Seaton and David Oaktree.” “Where did the assault take place? ” “On the Old South road, near Pastor’s meadow.” “ State the circumstances.”

“Miss Seaton and myself were walking along the road. Oaktree met us, and, without a word being said, struck me a violent blow, with an old spade handle, and then felled Miss Seaton to the earth with the same weapon. Then he attempted to strike the young lady as she lay on the ground; but I interposed and the blows intended for her fell upon my head and face. You can see that I carry, the marks to this day.” He did carry them, there being very little left of liis once-handsome nose, and his words were literally spoken “through the mouth of a wound.” “Did tho accused speak during the assault ? ” “He said: ‘l’ll kill you both. You shall never live to marry each other! ’ ” A profound sensation was caused by this statement. “Is that all, Mr. Thorn? ” “I was struck senseless. Oaktree, I suppose, thought he had killed me. When I recovered, there was nobody near me. I thought he had murdered Miss Seaton and taken the body away to hide it. Then I made my way to Seaton’s house.” Dr. Solon’s evidence was in regard to the condition of Hetty and Beriah on the occasion. He also, in cross-exam-ination, related a conversation between the accused and himself, in which the former had stated that Thorn was the would-be assassin. But this was objected to, and ruled out. The crossquestionings of Thorn and the others evoked nothing in favor of the prisoner. Miss Mehitable Seaton was called by the prosecution. David’s cheeks flushed, his eyes dilated at the mention of that name. His love for Hetty was still deep and fervent. From the farther end of the room a lady was ushered to the witness-stand. She was plainly but fashionably dressed; and she bore herself with an air of quiet elegance which caused Oaktree to stare astonished, remembering, as he did, the unpolished rustic of former days. She threw back her veil, and displayed a face which evinced education and refinement in every feature. It was David’s old sweetheart, but polished and improved almost beyond his recognition. Oaktree’s appearance at that moment was not prepossessing, He had been too sorely distressed in mind to care about his personal appearance, and his poor father, at the last moment, had brought him by mistake an old blue suit—which now hung about the wearer a world too wide at all points—instead of the new clothes ordered at Draper’s, the Oldtown tailor. David was thin and haggard, beside. The contrast between him and Hetty was marked indeed; she with her air of elegance, he seemingly as clumsy as the dullest plow-boy that ever followed a furrow. “ Now, Miss Seaton, please inform us of all you know concerning this brutal business,” said the District Attorney. Hetty told her story up to the moment that Oaktree had met her and Thorn.

“ That’s all, Miss Seaton,” said Mr. Fox, the District Attorney, supposing that her memory, in regard to the assault, was as imperfect as ever. “The case for the prosecution is closed, if the opposite counsel has no questions to ask.” “ But, if you please, it is not all. The , most important facts, which I now distinctly remember, are yet to be related,” replied Hetty to the astonished attorney. Mr. Shields, the counsel for the defense, himself much amazed, jumped to his feet briskly. “As you have done with the witness, Mr. Fox, and as the prosecution has nothing more to prove, I will go on with the defense,” he said. “ Please continue. Miss Seaton.” “Mr. Oaktree,” she said, “asked meexcitedly, to go back with him, and ap, plied some uncomplimentary epithets to Beriah Thom, when the latter suddenly seized the spade handle, which stood against the fence, stepped silently behind Mr. Oaktree and struck at him with all his force. But I shrieked out an alarm, and he avoided the blow. Thom then aimed blow after blow in rapid succession at David, which were parried. At last the weapon descended with a-force that would have made the stroke fatal had it reached its object. But, impelled by an uncontrollable impulse, I rushed between the two men, and gave Thom a push which caused his weapon to miss its mark. At this he, Mr. Thom—” she paused, and repeated the name—“ Mr. Thom turned upon me, and exclaimed, furiously: ‘ Since you are so fond of Dave Oaktree, you may as well die for him!’ or words to that effect ; and struck me hwe ” exposing a long cicatrice the wound had left. ‘‘Had not Psvid par-

tiaHy parried then blow I should have been killed. I have a dim recollection that David snatched the spade handle from Thom and struck at Mm. Then I fainUtd.” Mr. Fox could not shake Hetty’s testimony although he cross-questioned her at ell points, with all the ingenuity acquired by years of experience. After she had finished, Oaktree’s council produced a document which was admitted as evidence. It was a statement of the affair written by David before his escape from the county jail. The paptjr had been preserved as a curiosity, in the County Clerk’s office; it was found to agree with Miss Seaton’s testimony in every particular. The District Attorney was disgusted and would not make an argument. The defendant’s counsel submitted the case of his client without a woi d. The Judge summed u» thus briefly. “The prosecution has signally failed. The witness Thorn has clearly perjured himself. Tha jury will find a verdfi }t for the defendant,” The jury found as directed, and David Oaktree stood blameless in the oyes of the law. Beriah Thom betook himself hastily from the court, retired to the njeesses of his farm, and was permitted to remain there unmolested. David and Hetty—the latter accompanied by her cousin, Mrs. Yerdan—met in the ante-chamber of the court. They gazed eamastly at each other. Old-time memories crowded thickly up#m each. Admiration mingled with David’s love; disappointment at his apparent unculture blended with Hetty’s feelings. Oaktree offered his hand; she laid her delicate fingers upon his broad palm. “Thanks, Miss Seaton,” he said. “I thank you with all my heart. You have saved my life, Hetty; for if they had sworn me off to State prison I shouldn’t have lived to come out of it.” “And forgive me for the eruel wrong I have done you,” she replied, looking wistfully into his eyes. What Miss Seaton saw in their hazel depths drew her to him irresistibly and melted the conventional crust she had acquired. She became once more, for the moment sit least, his dear little Hetty. “Oh, David, David!” she cried, and clasped him about the neck with oldtime fervency. He kissed her passionately; then, seeing Mrs. Verdan’s look of surprise, blushed like a girl. “When shall I see you again?” he asked Hetty. “ On Monday evening, Christmas eve, at Mrs. Yeraan’s, in New York,” giving him the street and number, and presenting him formally to that lady. Mrs. Verdan exchanged but a few sentences with our hero, yet when they separated it was with a much more favorable opinion of him than she had at first entertained. David soon learned that Mrs. Yerdan intended to leave her property "to Miss Mehitable Seaton, who had thus acquired a degree of respect and admiration which naught but money or prospective wealth could have evolved from her numerous Ocean county acquaintances. At an early hour on Christmas eve, David Oaktree opened the gate leading to the grounds surrounding tho Yerdan mansion.

Hetty heard his footsteps upon the veranda; the next moment David was in her presence. Could this be the man who so recently stood before her in the Oldtown court-room, pale, haggard, awkward ? And yet it was he; but how different! His ill-fitting garments changed for fashionable habiliments, his unkempt hair and beard neatly arranged, his cheeks flushed with the hue of health—the metamorphosis was complete! The evening passed pleasantly. Hetty found that David, like herself, had vastly improved, in mind as well as manners. During hm long absence he had, besides devoting himself to the study of books on all possible occasions, picked up a vast amount of general information in various parts of the world, and David had been an indefatigable traveler since his hasty exit from the Ocean county lock-up. On this Occasion lie said nothing concerning his financial affairs, and Hetty’s impression was that he still remained poor, or comparatively poor, with a prospect, in the distant future, of becoming liis father’s successor, and the owner of Oaktree farm. Mrs. Yerdan, charmed with Our hero’s conduct and conversation, cordially invited him to the annual holiday festival which was to be celebrated at her house on the morrow—Christmas. David cheerfully accepted the invitation. On the afternoon of the following day, David, arrayed in faultless evening costume, was warmly welcomed by Hetty and Mrs. Yerdan. The guests being all assembled, the doors of the great conservatory were thrown open, and a scene of novel beauty was presented. In this immense conservatory, which was lofty enough to contain full-grown palms, the trunks and branches of spruce, hemlock and pine trees had been skillfully arranged in imitation of the cruciform interior of a mediaeval cathedral. Every treetrunk in this Christmas temple was a ▼erdure-clad Gothic column; each branch was a portion, clothed in living green, of the interlacing mullions, aisles, arches, nave, roof and transept tracery. The fragrant box-plant hung in festoons from pillar to column; rare flowers, fashioned into crosses, stars, letters and Christmas phrases, hung from the various points of vantage. An organ occupied the proper place in the choir, and in the center of the transept, inclosed by blossoming orange trees, was the chancel with its evergreen altar. In short, all the appointments of a cathedral were here represented. A reverend gentleman in canonicals was at the altar, by whom, with organ and choral accompaniments, the Christmas services were impressively celebrated. The last notes of the final anthem were still vibrating in the perfumed air, when David whispered to Hetty, “Will you grant me a favor—a Christmas gift that I may choose for myself?” “ With all my heart. What is it?” “Yourself, Hetty!” His meaning suddenly flashed upon her. She blushed vividly, and hesitated. “What, to-day? Now? Impossible! Ask Cousin Verdan.” Mrs. Yerdan made no objection. Indeed, she was pleased with the proposal. Hetty insisted upon time in which to make a more suitable toilet. A few hours after she reappeared in a costume which seemed perfect at all points—especially to the gentlemen present—but which under other circumstances she would have scorned. But she made this sacrifice of etiquette to love gracefully—for his sake. David and Hetty were ushered to the altar; and the mildly-amazed clergyman proceeded to bind them together, matrimonially, in due and ancient form. Hetty and Mrs. Verdan still looked upon our hero as a poor man. The fete went on with unusual brilliancy. In the evening, David and his wife were together in the transept of the Christmas temple. From the hundred branches of a great chandelier, the light, filtering through colored globes, was like the softened sunshine which is shed from the tinted panes of a chancel 'window. “Hetty,” said David, as they stood en^

veloped in this variegated effulgence, “when we were first before this blessed altar, I said: * With all my worldly goods I thee endow.’ I now fulfill that prom--ISG> He gave her a package. “What is this?” she said. “ A Christmas present; all my worldly goods.” She opened the packet. It contained SIOI,OOO worth of bonds, coupons intact! “ Pretty ornaments for a Christmas tree, Hetty.” “ Why, David, J thought you were— * “Poor? With your love, darling, I were rich, indeed, did I not possess a dollar.” “Dear David, my David!” she murmured, nestling against his shoulder. “ How pleased Cousin Verdan will be!” “With these adornments for the Christmas tree ? ” “ Yes. But I would have been content if—” “ What, Hetty?” “If there had not been a single leaf of this kind upon my glorious Oaktree.”

Bankrupt Nations.

The discredit in which of late years foreign loans have been held in England had the effect of making investors place their capital in bank, gas, water, insurance and railway stocks. Foreign investments were thrown overboard and home securities were purchased. The consequence was that competition ran up the prices of all such English home securities. A reaction was sure to come, and seems to be setting in to-day in England with some severity. The disaster of the City of Glasgow Bank, with its unlimited-liability clause, has caused a heavy decline in all bank shares. As it is possible that the British public may again return to foreign investments, the English Stock Exchange Commission has published some of the facts in regard to these outside loans which are quite interesting. Should there be a return of peace on the continent, Bussia, Austria and Turkey, it is quite certain, will be extensive borrowers. The total amount of money raised in London for foreign states during the last half-century has • been something like £614,000,000. Of this £167,000,000, or 26 per cent., is in entire default. The bankrupt states are Turkey, Peru, Mexico, Venezuela, Honduras, Costa Rica, Paraguay, the Confederate States, Uruguay, Greece, Bolivia, Ecuador, San Domingo, Guatemala, Poyais and Liberia. The loans in partial default amount to £175,000,000, or 30 per cent. Spain owes £100,000,000. That country has so lost credit that the chances of her paying her loan are on about a par with Turkey. The Egyptian loan is in better repute just now, and it is believed that the Khedive will keep his engagements. The loans, then, in entire or partial default amount to £332,000,000, or 54 per cent, of the total raised. —New York Times.

Winter Clothing for Children.

Every one must remark that a favorite article of winter clothing for children is a comforter swathed around the neck. This is a great error; the feet and the wrists are the proper members to keep warm; the face and throat will harden into a healthy indifference to cold; but that muffler, exchanged for an extra pair of thick socks and knitted gloves, would preserve a boy or girl really warm and well. Bronchitis and sore throat have declined 50 per centum since the absurd use of high collars and twice-round neckerchiefs went out of fashion; and if the poor would take better care of their children’s feet half the infantile mortality would disappear. It only costs a trifle to put a piece of thick felt or cork into the bottom of a boot or shoe, but the difference is often considerable between that and a doctor’s bill, with perhaps the undertaker’s beside.—Green Mountain Freeman.

How It Got There.

A cable dispatch recently sent from Hartford, Ct., to Australia, consisted of thirty-three words, and cost $64.98. The course of the message was as follows: From Hartford to New York; to Heart’s Content, N. F.; to Valencia; to London ; through Germany, Russia, Siberia, to Vladiwoodstock, a point on the coast of Mantchooria; thence through the Japan sea to Nagaski, on one of the Japan islands; through the Yellow sea to Shanghai, China; thence down the coast to China, through the China sea t* Saigon, Siam; to Singapore, Malay; thence to Batavia, on the coast of Java; thence to St. Darwin, on the northern coast of Australia, and to Sydney.

Face to Face with Disease.

How often it happens that, although we hare witnessed the ravages of disease in the ease of others, we disregard his warning signals in our own. It is only when we find him face to face with us that we really perceive how grim ho is. Then, perchance, when it is too late, medicinal aid is sought. His avant courier, his forerunner, is physical weakness. Fortify the system, and you are armed against him. The finest tonic for this purpose is Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters, which renders digestion easy and complete, nourishes the system, improves the appetite, gives strength-yielding sleep, counteracts biliousness, and keeps the bowels in firstrate order. Leanness, and unnatural wanness and sollowness of the face, are obviated by it, and so genial and beneficial are its offects that not only is the body invigorated and regulated by its use, but despondency banished from the mind. The Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, in his lecture on “ The wastes and burdens of society,” claims “man’s natural life to be 80 years, and, as the average lifo is but 33 yoars, there must be a waste of 47 years.” Tliore is much of truth in this statement. If a man be unfortunate in business, it is attributed to the violation of some commercial law. Now, if a person bo taken off in tho prime of life, ought it not to bo attributed to the violation of some physiological law? If pooplo only know better, they would live bettor and longer ; but how can they profit by that which they know not of? The only popular work that moots this groat want is Dr. Pierce’s Common Sense Medical Adviser. In it tho great problems of disease and health are fully discussod. Tho work contains over 900 pages and 250 colored plates and wood-cuts. Price $1.50 (post-paid). Address the author, R. V. Pierce, M. D., Buffalo, N. Y.

Published Testimony establishes the fact that Scovxll’s Blood and Liver Syrup is a sterling remedy for scrofulous and all similar disorders of a formidable type. Also that it cures white swelling, carbuncles, eruptive maladies of all kinds, gout and rheumatism. It moreover promotes a secretion and flow of healthy bile and directs it into the proper channels. The deplorable ailments produced by mercury are also remedied by it Druggists sell it If you -want the best fruit and flower paper, send one dollar to the P'ruit Recorder and Cottage Gardener , Rochester, N. Y., now, for 1879, and you get last three months of 1878 or a beautiful fruit or flower chromo, 13 by 16 inches, free. Specimens free. Liberal terms to club-agents. For an irritated throat, cough or cold, “ Brown's Bronchial Troches ” are offered with the fullest confidence in their efficacy. They maintain the good reputation they have justly acquired. 25 cts. a box. An Eastern paper says : “ Every man who goes into the lumber woods this winter should take with him a supply of Johnson's Anodyne Liniment and Parsons' Purgative Pills. This little precaution may save months of labor and much suffering.” The exposure of the utter worthlessness of the targe packs of horse and cattle powders has saved our people a vast sum. • There is only one kind now known that are strictly pure, and these are Sheridan’s. Don’t throw away your money. To cleanse and whiten the teeth, to sweeten the breath, use Brown’s Camphorated Saponaceous Dentifrice. Twenty-five cents a bottle. Not lowest priced, poorest and dearest ; but highest priced, best and cheapest; this is what is claimed for the Mason & Hamlin Cabinet Organs. Hon. C. R. Parsons, Mayor of Rochester, was radically cured of Bright's Disease by Craig’s Kidney Cure. Depot, 42 University Place, nTy. Chew Jackson’s Bent Sweet Navy Tobaooo.

Pimples, Freckle*, Etc. The most wonderful discovery yet known. Mrs. Dr. L K Shaw’s Moth and Freckle Lotion. May be had of your druggist Price only #IOO. For particulars, address Mrs. Dr. L. K Shaw. 140 East 28th street New York. Mrs. Shaw’s Liver Pill. Best in the world. To Our Readers! The attention of all our readers is oalled to the attractive advertisement of J. L Patten & Co., 47 Barclay Street, New York, who generously offer to send a beautiful Chromo Motto, 6x17 inches in size, to all who send 25 cents for a three months’ subscription to their new illustrated magaatne. God has given ns medicine to oure ourselves when sick, but the knowledge of their combinations is a mystery to most of us. That dreaded of all diseases, Heart disease, has defied nearly all remedies, bat we are happy to be able to inform you that in Dr. Graves’ HEABT REGULATOR yon have a oertain cure. Thousands of bottles have been sold, and people are ready to testify to its beneficial results. There are some really wonderful cases of recovery from what seemed immediate death, and they have gladly given these testimonials, hoping they might be the means of benefiting others. Among the many forms of Heart disease are Palpitation, Enlargement, Spasms of the Heart, Stoppage or the Action of the Heart, Trembling all over and abont the Heart, Ossification or Bony Formation of the Heart, Rheumatism, General Debility and Sinking of the Spirits. Send your name to F. E. Ingalls, Concord, N. H., for a pamphlet containing a list of testimonials of cures, eta The HEART REGULATOR is for sale by druggists at 50 cents and #1 per bottle. We confidently refer our readers to the card of Dr. C. R. Sykes, in our issue of week before last Dr. Sykes is an old resident of Chicago, a regular graduate, honest, honorable and responsible, and as a physician takes first rank in his chosen specialty of catarrh and its complications. We beg to call the attention of our readers to the advertisement of Horace Waters & Bons, of New York city. They are offering special inducements for the holidays. Their pianos and organs cannot be excelled jor purity of tone and elasticity of touch. Catalogues and prices will be mailed free on application. Fob upward of 30 years Mrs. WINSLOW’S SOOTHING SYRUP has been used for children with never-failing suooess. It oorrects acidity of the stomach, relieves wind colio, regulates the bowels, cures dysentery and diarrhea, whether arising from teething or other causes. An old and well-tried remedy. 25 cts. a bottle. CHEW The Celebrated “Matchless” Wood Tag Plug Tobacco. The Pioneeb Tobacco Company, New York, Boston and Chicago.

IMPORTANT NOTlCE.—Farmers, Families end Other* osn porohese no remedy equal to Dr. TOBIAS’ VENETIAN LINIMENT, for the cure of Cholera, Diarrhoea, Dysentery, Croup, 00110 aad Seasickness, taken internally (it la perfectly harmless; see oath accompanying each bottle) and externally foi Chronic Rheumatism, Headache, Toothache. Sore Throat. Cute, Burns, Swellings, Bruises, Mosqnitc Bites, Old Sores, Pains in Limbs, Back and Chest. The VKNfeTIAN LfNIMENT was introduced In 1847, and do one who has used It bnt eontinnes to do so, many stating if it was Ten Dollars a Bottle they wonld not be witbontlt. Thousands of Certificates can be seen at the Depot, speaking of its wonderful curative properties. Sold by the Druggists at 40 eta. Depot, 42 Murray street. New York.

THE MARKETS.

NEW YORK. Beeves $7 50 @lO 00 Hogs 3 00 @ 3 30 Cotton 0 @ 9}s Flour —Superfine S 40 @ 3 £5 Wheat—No. 2 1 00 @ 1 C 8 Cohn—Western Mixed 45 @ 47 Oats—Mixed.... 29 }£@ 31 Rye—Western 58 @ 59 Pork—Mess 7 50 @ 7 65 Lard 6 @ 8 CHICAGO. Beeves—Choice Graded Steers 4 50 @ 4 75 Cows and Heifers 2 00 @2BO Medium to Fair 3 40 @ 3 80 Hogs 1 75 @ 2 75 Flour—Fancy White Winter Ex.... 4 50 @ 4 75 Good to Choice Spring Ex.. 3 75 @ 4 25 Wheat—No. 2 Spring 83 @ 84 No. 3 Spring 69 @ 71 Corn—No. 2 31 @ 32 Oats—No. 2 20 @ 81 Rye—No. 2 44 @ 45 Barley—No. 2 97 @ 98 Butter—Choice Creamery 20 @ 25 Egos—Fresh 18 @ 20 Pork—Mess 6 70 @ 7 87^ Lard s&@ 5% MILWAUKEE. Wheat—No. 1 8614@ 93U No. 2 82 @ 88 Corn—No. 2 31 @ 32 Oats—No. 2 19 @ 20 Rye—No. 1 42 @ 43 Barley—No. 2 83 @ 84 ST. LOUIS. Wheatv-No. 2 Red Fall 87 @ 88 Corn—Mixed 28 @ 29 Oats—No'. 2 19 @ 20 Rye 42 @ 43 Pork—Mess 7 GO @ 7 75 Lard 5 J4@ CINCINNATI. Wheat—Red 85 @ 95 Corn 81 @ 83 Oats 22 @ 25 Rye 50 @ 62 Pork—Mess 790 @ 8 00 Lard s«@ 5% TOLEDO. Wheat—No. 1 White 95 @ 96 No. 2 Red 94 @ 96 Corn 32 @ 36 Oats—No. 2 22 @ 23 DETROIT. Flour—White 4 40 @ 475 Wheat—No. 1 White 94 @ 96 No. 1 Amber 98 @ 94 Corn—No. 1 38 @ 89 Oats—Mixed 25 @ 26 Barley (per cental) 1 00 @ 1 75 Pork—Mess 8 60 @ 9 00 EAST LIBERTY, PA. Cattle—Best 4 60 @4BO Fair 4 10 @ 4 30 Common 3 25 @360 Hogs 2 00 @ 8 10 Sheep 2 75 @ 4 40

WASTINS DISEASES, Consumption, BroucliDls, Asthma, General Debility, Bruin Exhaustion, Chronic Constipation, Chronic Dlnm-heii, Dyspepsia, or loss ot'NERVOUS I*o WEB, Are positively and speedily cured by Fellows’ Compound SYRUP OF HYPOPHOSPHITES #lt will displace or wash out tubereulous matter, and thus cure Consumption. By increasing Nervous and Muscular Vigor, it will cure Dyspepsia, foeble or interrupted action of tho Heart and Palpitation, Weakness of Intellect caused by grief, worry, overtax or irregular habits. Bronchitis, Acute or Chronic, Congestion of the Lungs, even in the most alarming cases. It oures Asthma, Loss of Voice. Neuralgia, St. Vitus' Dance, Epileptic Fits, Whooping Cough, Nervousness, and is a most wonderful adjunct to other remedies in sustaining life during the process of Diphtheria. Do not be deceived by remedies bearing a similar name; no otl.or preparation is a substitute for tills under any ctrourastaucea. Frlce, $1.50 per Bottle, Nix for 81.50. ,S old h’j all Vruyginta. J. N Harris & Co.. Western Agents, Cincinnati, Ohio. /'•" . « Abbotl’sPatent Portland CutA m MSB ter—Sold for half the price, finished superior and warranted etronccrthan fbSPwrr ordinary sleighs. Also, Abbott’s \rn\ II \\ Patent Runner Attachments vIU I I -i-\ for every variety of wheeled vehicles. Only device of the kind in existence. . .. ■ Fits any axle; perfectly practical, ‘TSF** 1 strong and cheap. Wide track for ’w city use; narrow track for country H use. F' rsalc byAgl. Impl.and Harddealers generally. A. A. ABBOTT, Cor, Beach ar.d Sebor Sts., CHICAGO^ PAY—With Stencil Outfit*. What costs 4 ots. sells rapidly for 50 ct*. Catalogue fret. SfvS 6S S. JI. Spencer, 112 Wosh’n St., Boston, Mass. YUUNCMINSfste ■ month. Every graduate guar vnteod a p?ytug ri>i. ation. Address R. Valentine, Manager, Janesville, Wls. YOU NC | 116 Monro* St„ Chicago. Vol. «. cm wc > “Best and Cheapest lllus. Young People’s Paper in America !” RU lx AL, I Reduced to VS cents a Year! MB I I I Encyclopedia is the Iwstg 111 Two Medals, Paris, 1878 g || Selling better than ever. » -1 ■ m B Ag'is write to T.Ellwood ■ m ““** Zell, Davis A Co.. Phila ? fr®** tbs original, gad show a positive rmk S. ttmn fcs —«. k works Itkstosme sod asrsr fats. No S’ JflBT possiMeinjury to tbo ski a, easily appUod sod certain i> Pk* mt-pMdrSoto-ltoratW. L.L.BMITH __ k CO. Bala Apts. Patti—. Tit. Allsthsrs soaatorttt. AWNINGS! TENTS! PfKV gwhtgrioosa. BsgbA *Stoa Cliicflgn. tW~ Send far Illustrated Prioo-LUt. TRUTH IS MIGHTY 1 —- / o|r\ wiU, your age. height, oolor sfsyssui/ \ Jock of hair, smd to yog « sor-rsst yitfwt I - ) •f T*«r futoro h us bond or wife, initial* U I wUI flm’rnJi! S' S^aST MASON & HAMLIN CABINET ORGANB jSMSsWoWS ¥B®H YeAls| rfa: At Paris, 1887; Yienha, 1878; Santiago, 1876; Philadelphia, 1878; Paris, 1878; and Grand B widish Only American Organs ever award ed highest honors at any such. Sold for cash or i—t-U----menta Illustrated Catalogues and Circulars, with prices, sent free. MASON A HAMLIN OgQAjfj?Q., BOSTON, NEW YORK, or OHIOAQO Rr^°^Jf^TTLEBOHP,YI

itu Srss&fns’s; ■• U ■ ■ ■■ scriber to Leisure Hwurs at 25 cents (send silver, stamps, ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ m *r currency). This Motto, size 6x17 Inches, is printed In 15 ™ »»■ ■ ■■■oil Oolors; the words are elegantly entwined with Calls , a Lilies, Forget-me-nots, Lilies of the Valley, Pansies, Wheat?*yT’_>nr rT r, * , ! , ’.’ ll ."dsopielr printed In Oil Color*, rivaling nature In their beauty; words fail to give a reu qeaonpuon or Usbeauty. This Motto Is worthy to adorn any home, and will be considered cheap at 50 S****^;.?"*,”* l F nb "f b *?y *■«»*»« te introduce their new Magazine, Leisure Hours, offer every three--s*ott o, FREE. Leisure Hoars ia the name of a monthly Magazine (recently *. U * d . With illustrated article* of Place*. Travel, Biography, Stories, Poetry, it cheapest Magaxine published, quality and Quantity of matter conJg ouhnnn*. with handeim* sorer, each issue. The excellent Illustrations, combined Leisure Hoars e greet favorite with all. Price tI.OO per year; a««'®ci?sssf,is!s?i B*-111 V til A WAT!

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LIST OF DISEASES ALWAYS CURABLE BY USING MEXICAN MUSTANG LINIMENT. OF HUM AH FLESH. OF ANIMALS. Rheumatism, Scratches, Burns and Scialda, Sores and Galls, Stings and Bites, Spavin, Cracks, Cuts and Bruises, Ringbone, Sprains A Stitches, Screw Worm, Grab, Contracted Muscles, Foot Rot, Hoof All, StUTJoints, Hollow Horn, Backache, Lameness, Old doers,l Swlnny, Founders, Gangrenous Sores, Farcy, Poll Evil, Neuralgia, Gout, Sprains, Strains, Eruptions, String Halt, Frost Bites, Sore Poet, Hip Disease, StUCscss, sod all external diseases, and every hurt or accident For general tue in family, stable and stock yard it is THE BEST OF ALL LINIMENTS FRANK LESLIE’S CHIMNEY COHNEH Occupies a field that no other journal attempts to fill. It is essentially a paper for families. Avoiding all politics and questions of the day, it-devotes its columns to healthy fiction for the entertainment of its readers, and well-writ-ten, agreeably-instructive articles for the home circle, biographies of the good and great, anecdotes, art, invention, travels, curiosities of foreign life, the tastes of the day, the marvelous in nature and art, essays, attractive reading for the little ones at their mother’s knee and for those of larger growth, combined with pictures that attraot the eye and fix impressions vividly on the mind. It is issued every Monday, and can be had at all news depots; price 10 cents. Annual subscription, $4. Three months, sl. Postpaid. SabMiibera eon remit direct, by p. O. Order, Draft* on New York, or Registered Letter, at oar risk. Those who find It more convenient to subscribe through an agent can do so at their own risk, bat should find assure themselves of the agent’s rssponsifrank Leslie’s Publishing House, 68, 66 * 67 Park place, Heir York.

I—--. N.Tmt.i'praoaTcSS. wanted In every village. Address Box 7XS New York 62 SKIN DISEASE£j. 111 111 fig Thousands cured. Lowest Prices. D -not lira JLlUPall to write. Dr.FE, Marsh,Quincy.Mich. (hn A DAY »o Agents aanvaasing tor the Klrw|h / *M« YUltor. Tam* and Outfit Free. A 4 V ■ dress P. Q. YIOKKRY, Augusta. Mates AT.T, wb<> wl * h to uk< ‘ “•> V s - 1-snJ. worth SIO.OO per sera, ****** ran do to, ,n<t selUt thit price. Send $ 1.00 for Ctroa. <r». *c. F. lathrop Smith, Surveyor, Salt lake, Utsh Tv. (ftACAA MONTH—AGENTS WANTEO—36 BEST 2 lAnil aelllng artleles In the world: one sample yUU V fret. Address Jay Bronson, Detroit. Micb. Alas*. AWNINGS! TENTS! Bheapeat Toy Lantern to Best Btereoptlooc Catalogue Outfits Great Needham f THEO. J. HARBACH, Musical Marvel. \ 809 Filbert St., PhUadaTPa. MO^^^^WfVEOM Is perfectly pure. Pronounced the best by the highest medical authorities in the world. Given highest sward at 12 World’s Expositions, and at Paris, 1878. Sold by Druggists. W. 11. HchieiTeUn &Cs,.S.I. UOOESSFHL “FOLKS. HattbGV Hale Smitb’s new took. 1,000 Prominent persons—men and women analyzed. Steel Portraits of A. T. ft'Dß'Wfi'RT VANDERBILT. O Aik W A A, BENNKTT,Etc. Tbe sensation of tbe season. Now is the time for IQCNTC secure territory. Address, for njP C.n I O agency, circulars and terms, AMERICAN PUBLISHISiO C«„ Chicago, 111. The Antidote to Alcohol Found at Last. THE FATHER MATHEW REMEDY Is a certain and speedy onre for intemperance. It destroys all appetite for alcoholic liquors and builds up ths nervous system. After a debauch, or any intemperate Indulgence, a single tenspaanful will remove all inentnl and pliysicnleeprcßsion. It also cures eveiy kind of Fetich, Dyspepsia and Torpidity of THE Liver. Sold by all druggists. S l per Bottle. Pamphlet on ** Alcohol, its Effect* on the Human Body, and Intemperance as a Disease," sent. fre-. FATHER MATHEW TEMPERANCE AND MANUFACTURING 00.. 30 Bond St, New York. A GREAT OFFER FOR HOLIDAYS!!! We will during the HOLIDAYS ditpontof 1 OO PIANOS and OHOAVi nt Exli-iioi-illiuii-v LOW prices for cash. SPI.EMIII I» <> KOA NS SitS sets of reeds sets with Sub-Itas* und Coupler gBO, 9 sets .'SV-l, 1 set 8110, 1 set KSS. 7 Octave all ROSKWOGD I*I.V\OS 81:10, 7 1-3 do 18140, warranted for MIX years. AGENTS WANTED. Illustrated Catalogues Mulled. Music nt half price. HORACE WATERS A SONS, Mnnufrs. and Dealers, 40 K. 14tli St., N. Y. NEWSPAPERS & MAGAZINES at elub rates. Time, trouble and expense saved by subscribing through the Rocky Mountain Subscription Agency, which furnishes any paper (except local) published in the United States. Musical Instruments, bowing Machines of all kinds Chromos Frames Hewing Machine Needles and Attachments nt redneed prices. I will also furnish Books of all kinds at lowest prices. Rocky Mountain Stereoscopic Views a specialty. Don’t fail to write at once for our circular*. Agents oan make big money. Address JAMES TORRENS, Evans, Colo. WABNEB BRO’S COSSETS Hill an wS receivcil the Hiffhent At t)io rer«ul \MMmw PARIS exposition, fwM@3Sw over al 1 American competitor*. Thaii fmmfmDf FLKXIJJI.K HIP COBKET (ISO Bonea) fits with perfect ease, au<l ia wabMmlll / ///lIIUI. banted uot to break down over the hlpa JHV /II Thelr HEALTH COKBKT with ita lmMill n n I ill proved Bunt, i a now a greater fa vorlta ill 111 111 111 I fil Their N UKBING COBBKT 1» X/f//11 1 / 111/ tho delight of every mother. HIUI lJr For *a le by all leading merchaLta. WARNER BROS., 851 Broadway, N.Y. P AGENTS WANTED FOR THE lOTOBIAL HISTORYof™ WORLD It contains 67 2 fine historical engravings and 1260 largo double-column pages, and is the most complete History of the World aver published. It sells at sight. Bend for specimen pages and extra terms tr Agent*. Address NATIONAL PUBLISHING 00.. Chicago, UL BOSTON TRANSCRIPT Daily and Weekly, Quarto, BOSTON, MASS. Tho Largest, Cheapest nnd Best Family Newspaper lr New England. Edited with special reference) to the varied tastes and requirements of the home circle. Alt the foreign and local news published promptly. Daily Transcript, 810 per annum In advance. Weekly “ $2 “ “ (6 copies to one nddress, $7.50 per annum iu advance. SEND FOB SAMPLE COPY. SAPONIFIED It the Old Reliable Concentrated Lye FOR FAMILY SOAP-MAKING. Directions accompanying each can lor making Hard, Soft and Toilet Soap QUICKLY. IT IS IVLL WEIOUT AND STRENOTIT. The market I* flooded with (so-called) n— v -mtratof. Lye, which is adulterated with salt and „..d u>o»\ nolle loop. BAVB MONK?, AND BUT TBE Saponifieß MADE BY THL Pennsylvania Salt ManuTg Co., PHILADELPHIA.

Established 1881. Gargling Oil Liniment Yellow Wrapper for Animal and V/hlte for ' Human Flesh, is GOOD FOR f) n< t Scalds, Sprains and Bruises, Chilblains, Frost Bites,Stringhalt, Y/indgalls, Scratches or Grease, Foot Rot in Sheep, Chapped Hands, Fou.idered Feet, Flesh Wounds, Rom in Poultry, External Poisons, Crac) cd Hec.s, Sand Cracks, Epizcotic, Galls of all kinds, Lame Back, Sitfast, Ringbone, Hemorrhoids or Piles, Poll Evil, Toothache, Swellings, Tumors, Rheumatism, Garget in Cows, Spavins, Sweeney, Cracked Teats, Fistula, Mange, Callous, Lameness, Caked Breasts, Horn Distemper, Sore Nipples, Crownscab, Quitter, Curb, Ola Sores, Foul Ulcers, Farcy, Corns, Whitlows, Abcess of the Udaer, Cramps, Boils, Swelled Legs, Weakness of the Joints Thrush, Contraction of Muscles. Merchant's Gargling Oil ts the standard Liniment of the United States. Large size, ft; medium, 50c; small, 25 c. Small size for family use, 25c. Manufactured at Lockport, N. x., by Merchant’s Gargling Oil Company. JOILt HODGE, Sec'y. BolidayMcßooh! CHRIBTMAB CAROLB. Christmas Music. W« recommend : Dressier’* Chris!m;t« Chimes (20 ct*.). 20 beautiful and easy Anthems, or Howard’* Tea Christmas Carols (20 ct#.), or Howard’* Eleven Christmas Carols (20 cts.). or Christmas Voices (15 cts.), 15 Carols by Waterbury; or Christmas Hcleetlon* ($4 per hundred), containing Fir# oholco pieoes. A valuable book is Christmas Carols, Old and New (42 ct*.), also, 100 ot/wr Mingle Carols (5 to 10 ct*.). Church Offering W^t^a. o Anfh M c» also a complete set of Anthems and Chants for all the festivals and Services of tho year. A fine book. Noel. 87 SADreSA SRiMti , S.‘ The School Song Book I> E rmt. u * n excellent book for Girls’ High or Normal Schools, or for Seminaries. Good instructions and very good music. Enliven your fingers for Christmas playing by practicing MASU.YB PIANOFORTE TECHNICS ($150), the best Finger Gymnasium known. W Any book mailed, post-free, for the above prices. OLIVER DITSON & CO., Bostou. C. 11. Ditson <k Co., *J. E. Ditxon Ji Ca„ 843 Broadway. N. Y. H2vß Chestnut St. Phila O. N. U. ’ If a 60 HEN WRITING TO ADVEltTiwfeUfi _ y ' “ the *