Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 March 1881 — Page 4

BROTHER BARTHOLOMEW. Brother Bertholomew, working time. Would fell into musing and drop his tools; Brother Bartholomew cared tor rhyme More than for theses of the schools; For gain or losing, for weal or woe, God made him a poet, long ago. At matins he sat. the book on his knees, And his thoughts were wandering far, I wis; The brotherhood chanted the litanies, While he had no praying to do but this: Watching through arched windows high The birds that sailed o’er the morning sky. At complin hour, in the chapel dim, He went to his stall and knelt with the rest; And oft, on the wings of the evening hymn. Would his soul dost out tp the night's fair breast, And ever to him the starry host Flamed bright as the tongue at Pentecost. “ A foolish rhymester and nothing more; The idle fellow a oell can hold 80 judged the worthy Isidor, Prior o? ancient Ni this wold; Yet somehow, with dispraise content, Signed not the oulprlt’s banishment. Mcsnwhile Bartholomew went his way. And patiently wrote in bis sunny cell; His pen fast traveled from day to day. Hi 4 books were covered, the walls as well. “ He were better a pious monk instead Of a listless dawdler,” the Prior said. Bartholomew died, aa mortals most; His spirit went free from the cowled throng; And after, they took from the dark and dust Of shelves and corners many a song, That cried from Britain to far Cathay How a bard had riaen—and passed away. Wonderful verses I fair and fine, Full of the old Greek loveliness; The seer-like vision, half divine; Pathos and merriment in excess; And every careful stanza told Of love and of labor manifold. The King came out and stood beside Batbolomew’s taper-lighted bier, And, turning to his lords, he sighed; “ How worn and weary doth he appear— Our noble poet—now he Is dead I” “ O tireless worker I” the Prior said. —Bouton Courier.

The DRUNKEN ENGINEER.

From the cab of a locomotive on the Union Pacific road, a succession of dissolving views strike the eye for a moment and then fade away, as the speed of the thundering iron horse whirls the short across the prairie. “More coal, Jake; more coal 1 I’m going to give these nabobs a ride they’ll long remember 1 Ha, ha, ha 1 ” And the peculiar laugh of the large, muscular man who held the throttle-lever with one baud as he looked out of the window, rang, half-cheerily, half-satanioally, above the roar of the rushing train. The laugh chilled the blood of the fireman, brave as he was. He felt a tingling sensation at the roots of his liaii*, which would have stood upright but for the skull-cap he wore. 1 ‘ Ben what in the world do you mean —we’re flying now; and look at the hand of that dial ! ” Ben, with a quick movement changed the lever from one hand to the other, stretched a brawny arm toward the coalscoop and turned his eyes on the fireman. “ More coal, I say I ” Jake complied. Never before had he seen his chief with such a look—in such an attitude. He could not account for it; but he saw plainly enough that it would be useless to demur. He added fresh fuel. Ben gave another hitch to the lever—and away flew the train at increased speed. Ben Miles was one of the best engineers of the Union Pacific road. And it was in its. earliest days, when the spirit of adventure, fostered by the war just closed, induced many good men to seek their fortunes along its route, either in the hot-house enterprises that sprang up along; the line or in constructing or operating the road. Ben’s boyhood had. been passed iu learning the trade of worker in ploster-of-paris, which held his young and buoyant mind until the fascination of designing was lost in the restless activity of the first years of manhood. With thousands of others he went West to see what was offered by this great advancing enterprise. He fell in love with the free air of the boundless plains, and conoeived the idea of running a locomotive across them. A man of mind to devise, an iron frame to execute, with his indomitable will he soon learned every secret of the engine. “Ah!” said he, “here is something worth handling.” He obtained employment and in a year became famous over half tl\p road. The capacity of a locomotive depends upon the man who handles it. Like a horse, it is obedient and strong, or weak and fractious—reflecting the skill and temperament of its driver.' Ben had often jumped upon a strange engine and hauled a train which its operator could not budge. He studied his machine, tending it with the solicitude of an enthusiast. He had tested its strength, and had always yearned an opportunity to put its speed to its utmost capacity. Jack Saunders, the stoker, thought his chief was now making his long-sought experiment. Ben Miles—brave, great-hearted and mild-tempered—possessed a grievous sin. His hours of idleness were the bane of his life. It was known that he drank ; but liis superiors trusted him implicitly, for he never drank when on duty. No power could tempt him to break his rule.* The train he was now hauling, however, was not his own. A few hours before a party of railway dignitaries had arrived at the .eastern end of Ben’s division, in a couple of magnificent coaches, a sleeping and a hotel car. They had asked for a volunteer, and they wanted to be taken over the road in a hurry. Ben Miles was idle and responded to the call with alacrity, resolved in his mind to satisfy their cry for haste with a speed that should answer it.

At the office Ben’s superiors had watched him attentively, but discovered no cause to deny his request. His companions ohaffed him at his anxiety to get back to the other end of the division. They knew his attraction there was a young and beautiful widow, who had a little girl as pretty and fresh as a morning in May, and who loved Ben Miles as much as Ben loved her mother, if that were possible. But when they rallied him on this point they were met by a fierce look so contrary to his genial nature that, after he had gone, the thought came into their minds, aud they exchanged fearful glances as the word passed round, “Ben Miles is drunk ! ” “Coal, coal; do you hear, Jake? By the winged Jupiter ! See the mile-posts hurrying by ! Three of them in two minutes and a half; I believe wo can make three in two ! Stoke, man, stoke !” Such were the behests the horrified fireman continually heard. They were delivered in tones, that admitted of no expostulation. Though at another time Jake well knew he could not shake the good temper of his chief, he saw it would be unsafe now, and he contented himself with stoking, while he muttered the conviction that had reluctantly forced itself into his mind: “ Ben Miles is drunk! ” Back in the parlor car sat a company of America’s foremost financiers; men who talked and traded in railroads and millions with the nonchalance of the clerks who counted their gains. They lounged about, chatting on whatever came uppermost—providing it was not the real affairs on their minds—and scarcely concealed their impatience under fifty miles an hour. The speed increased to nixty, and they were delighted. “Listen, Col. Tom ! No click to be heard, so lightly do the wheels skip the joints in the rails ! ” “Ah, the finest rolling stock in the world; to be put to such a movement and ride so easily! ” ’ “Speed is time—and both are money! Eh, still faster ? Great Scott, what are we coming to ?” “But look at that landscape! The long stretch of plain, bounded only by the norizon, and dotted by the shadows of floods, which pursue each other with

rapid though majestic movement, beyond the sweep of vision !” “Take it home and put it in the collection 1” “But swiftly as the clouds are going, we can give them long odds in the race 1” And even with the last speaker’s words the train again felt the impulse of Ben Miles’ hand on the lever. There was no sudden jerk, but a gradual and giant-like onward sweep that brought to their seats the last who had been trying to stand. The momentum was becoming fearful. It seemed to make them swerve with dizziness even in their seats. “By Jove, this has passed the point where it was interesting 1” “Life insurance companies would scream if they knew of tins !” “ Great Scott, I’m afraid we’re in danger of foreclosing the mortgage 1” “My landscape gone in a dizzy maze.” But the speed increased and the alarm was no longer concealed. One inquired for the conductor. Another seized the bell-rope and pulled “down brakes!” Two more, with blanching faces, cried to each other : “The locomotive is running away!” “ Or else the engineer is drunk ! ”

The message reached the cab and rang its imperious “halt” on the gong. ‘ * Ha, ha, ha! Brave boys back there, Jake ! Stood it better than I thought they would; but they may as well screw their courage to the sticking point; there’s more speed left in the snorter yet! ” The stoker heard the implied threat with a terror that shook him to the center. Any further increase of his reckless speed would put the lives of all to the brink of criminal hazard. No, it should not be! Jake Saunders was a strong man and desperation pushed him to a daring resolve ! He crept close to the engineer’s back with a huge lump of coal in his hand. Ben had adjusted the lever after giving it another forward movement, and was watching intently the track ahead of them. “No, no; I can not hit him with that! ” And Jake laid down the chunk .of coal to use only in extremity; he loved his chief too much to use it even under this pressing need. Then quick as thought Jake seized Ben from behind and threw all his strength into one huge effort to wrench him to the floor. The powerful jerk bent him backward ; but Ben’s muscles acted with his mind. The instant it became apparent to him that he was attacked, he turned in the arms of his assailant, released himself, and Jake, instead of Ben, went crashing to the floor of the cab with terrible force. ‘ ‘ What do you mean, Jake Saunders ?” cried Ben, stooping over his fireman. Bis rage at first boded ill to the fallen man ; but Jake did not get up, and it as rapidly gave way to kindness, and be raised him bodily to his feet : “ What, man ; are you hurt ? ” “ No,” answered Jake, after feeling of himself, “ only at my failure.” “Ah, I see ; you wanted to run her yourself. Well, it was a brave attempt, but exceedingly rash ! See, you have broken the lookout; now keep your eyes on the road ahead and I’il stoke myself till you’re rested.” The bell-rope sounded another signal on the gong. “That tiling makes me nervous,” said Ben, as he disconnected the rope and fastened it to a hook in the ceiling .of the cab. “Now they may jerk to their heart’s content. Poor fools ! Do I not value my life as much as they do theirs ? “Look—look!” cried Jake, as he Hen s arm. •• Aneau on tne lelt rail! ” “Bobbers, as I’m a sinner!” And Ben seized an iron bar and started towml the front of the engine, shouting to Jake as he went, “ Let her run ! It’s our only chance ! ” Jake knew that Ben was right, and that even that chance was small. He gazed with shuddering horror at the superhuman task that Beu had taken upon liimself. The broad plain they were crossing, a wilderness without trees but with more terrors to those who knew its dangers, was dotted with clumps of high grass and infested in places by robbers and ruffians of the worst type. They had mistaken this short “special ”lor the pay train, and had practiced a common device to throw it from the track. They knew a large obstruction could be seen far enough ahead to admit of stopping the traki, and they had no time to tear up enough track to serve their purpose ; so they had taken up a single rail, bent it to a right angle two feet from the end, and put it back very near its place but just outside the range of the cowcatcher, with the bent end sticking up. This obstruction was difficult to discover and sure to do its work, unless it could be thrown down before the train struck it. When the fireman spoke, it would have been impossible to stop had the speed been forty miles an hour, and they were running seventy. Ben had gone forward to throw down this rail—a thing no man in his senses would have attempted. Perhaps you have not thought of the feat. A fly might cling with little trouble to the outside of a locomotive, for the mass carries along to a slight extent its own atmospheric surroundings; but a man is clear outside this small sphere of attraction, and must possess the force himself to displace the dense air. Atmospheric pressure, at a standstill, is fourteen and seven-tenths pounds to the square inch. A locomotive going through it at a rate of seventy miles an hour is therefore a mammoth cleaver. Ben Miles was a barnacle that clung to its side by mere force of muscle. He had but a few seconds in which to get down to the cowcatcher. At first he was flattened against the front of the cab. He saw he must exert himself. He writhed, twisted, tugged himself along by the hand rail. The muscles on his bare arm. knotted themselves like a bundle of withes. It was the work of a giant, but Ben went forward.

“He never could do that but for the liquor that’s in him,” said the astonished fireman. Ben reached the front just in time to poise himself and swing his iron bar. He struck the blow. The rail rolled over. A click of the huge wheels as they cleared the spot with scarcely a depression told that the speed of the train and Ben Miles’ rashness had saved the lives in his keeping. “ Hurrah ! We’re safe 1” shouted the fireman. But not so Ben Miles. Just as he had raised the iron bar to cast it at the twisted rail, half a dozen puffs of smoke arose from as many clumps of grass not far from the track, and a shower of bullets whizzed through the air. Ben fell back on the cowcatcher. Was he struck ? The fireman strained his eyes to get a glimpse of his return. Presently Ben’s head appeared to view; then an arm ; and then he worked himself up, turning his back to the cab, the better to hold back against the rushing air, which now strove to hurl him to his retreat with as much force as before it had fought his advance. All this time Ben used but one arm, and Jake could see that the other was bloody and hung by his side. With a fearful struggle he finally reached ihe cab and clambered inside. “ Ha, ha, ha 1” rang out the same diabolical laugh; “the devils thought to throw us, but their scheme slipped up eh, Jake ?” “ But your arm, Ben ?” “Went back on me; failed me at a pinch —as it never did before. ” “Why here’s a bullet hole through the muscle above the elbow I’’ >‘Eh. hit? Well* wrap it tfith a hand'

kerchief, Jake. I know a physician for wounds like that. Yon’ll nave to coal up now. See how the dear old snorter scurries along. We’re only twenty miles from home. She shall see how a machine can ran !” And Ben thought no more of his useless arm. A few miles on the hither side of the station they were now approaching, which formed the terminus of the division on which Ben Miles had been running for some time there lived a most charming woman. Five years before her husband had been a wealthy and prosperous man in Boston; but reverses in fortune came to him, and he saw with deep pain the hollow side of that society which had always till then courted his favor. The sight shook his faith in the depth of human goodness ; he longed to be a Timon and turn his back npon this Athens. He yearned for a wild life in the West, but he could not ask his wife to forego the comforts and society in which she had always lived. She, however, observed this inclination of his mind, and, by insidious degrees, made it her own proposition. “Come,” said she, “let us live on a farm, faraway from the world; we will make a paradise for ourselves.” They went, and her words were in truth fulfilled. While he planted wheat she planted flowers, and in two years the house and grounds were a bower of loveliness. It was a sad day to this young wife when death took away the husband she delighted to make contented. She would not show his corpse to her 3-year-old girl; but when the little one asked for papa, she could only tell her that sometime she would see her papa again. So the child was happy, and the widow’s heart—during the three years that had now passed—was insensibly lightened by its gleeful laugh. Ben Miles saw this child in one of his rambles, when it had strayed from the house a little farther than usual, and thought he had found an angel, till she told him she lived in the cottage up by the road. While he was talking to her, her mother’s voice, in musical but piercing tones, called from over a rising in the ground, and, taking her in his arms, Ben strode rapidly toward the sound, saying, “There’s anguish in that cry, my little one ; you must hasten to drive it away. ” Never had Ben forgotten the look in that young mother’s eyes when he put her child in her arms; and when she thanked him, with her sweet, tremulous voice, she robbed him, without knowing it, of one of the kindest hearts that ever beat in man’s breast. Ben could only speak to her of the child. “May I come and see her again —and bring some—some —” “Candy?” queried the little one at the pause; “of course you may; I like candy—and I like you, too. ” ‘ ‘Ah, I shall bear a charmed life hereafter, I know I shall! ” and Ben raised his broad-brimmed hat and strode away with a genial laugh. He went often to the cottage afterward. It stood within twenty rods of the track, and his companions on the road had seen him there as they passed by. They had noted another fact—strange to them, but which will not be to you, reader—Ben Miles never drank at this end of his route.

“Stoke! stoke up, Jake! We’ll soon sec the cottage in the shrubbery! She says there’s poetry in the grandeur of a swiftly moving train! Ha, ha, ha; I’ll show her the grandest poem she ever saw! ” “ He’s worse than ever; strange how the liquor hangs on to him,” said Jake. “ I never knew him to speak of her until to-day.” In fact, it seemed as if Ben Miles was mad. He had run two hundred miles iu four hours—the track being cleared for this train—including the few short stops for water—andim-teadof sobering, the motion had seemed to keep the liquor in his head. Jake made up his mind to rebel, so fearful wad im accident in the short distance yet to run. “ You do not stoke, Jake!” “She’s got more than enough fire now. ” 1 ‘ Wliat! —Oh, confound this arm ! But no matter ; stand aside —I can do it with one 1” A thought struck the fireman. “ Shewill not be looking for you to pass now.” Ben looked fiercely at the fireman. “This is a special,” continued Jake, seeing Ben waver. “ Come, slack up !” “ Touch the lever at your peril! I’ll risk her knowing my engine,” said Ben to himself ; and, throwing the lover wide open, he fixed his eyes on the cottage, now only a mile away. • “ Ben! Ben ! shut off!” cried Jake. “ Not for life ! She’s coming out!” “ Look on the track ! The child 1” “Great God!” Shouted Ben, “shut off, Jake !” and out to the front of the locomotive lie clambered, this time with the speed of a wildcat. The little girl had been crossing the track, with her apron full of flowers, when the lightning-like speed of this terrible apparition, the unexpected train, had frightened her into a swoon, and she had fallen between the rails. Ben had only seen the mother as she ran out in frantic alarm. Ben reached the cowcatcher and threw himself—utterly reckless-~-prone upon his stomach across the extreme front edge, while, with liis hand outstretched, he waited to grasp the child. Quick as thought she was reached. The train had slackened to ten miles an hour. Ben seized the child and lifted it from the track, but the effort destroyed his balance. He was rolling off in front. Oh, for another hand to cling with ! He made a frantic effort to use his wounded arm. Impossible ! His unyielding grip on the child was dragging him to destruction. With tremendous power he flung the child clear of the train; and this, with the lessening momentum, threw him off to be crushed beneath the engine. The mother found her child unhurt, and, straining it to her breast, wept bitter tears as she knelt over the lifeless form of brave Ben Miles.

Political Honesty.

Apropos of political honesty, a story is told of Andrew Marvell, which can hardly be too frequently repeated. It was deemed important to silence Marvell’s tongue in Parliament when a certain measure was proposed, and Lord Treasurer Danby, who had been his school fellow, called upon him in his garret. At parting Danby slipped into his hand an order on the Treasury for £I,OOO, and then went to his chariot. Marvell, looking at the paper, calls out, “My lord, I request another moment. ” They went up again to the garret, and Jack, a servant, was summoned. “Jack, child, what had I for dinner yesterday?” “Don’t you remember, sir, you had the little shoulder of mutton that you ordered me to bring from a woman in the market.” “Very right, child. What have I for dinner to-day ?” “Don’t you know, sir, that you bid me lay by the blade bone to broil?” “’Tis so ; very right, child go away. My Lord,” said Marvell, turning to the Treasurer, “do you hear that? Andrew Marvell’s dinner is provided; there’s your piece of paper. I live here to serve my constituents; the Ministry may seek men for their purpose ; I am not one.” There was a fight imminent between two boys. One of them darkly intimated that he was bigger than the other. The smaller, who is the son of a deacon, defiantly retorted, “I don’t care if you’re as big as a church debt, you can’t scare me.” A RPLENpiD breakfast on the table surrounded by a family of Goughs. They used Dr. Bull’s Cough Syrup, acid that ffgijly nor * KP®P B It always pn hand and recommends it. rrioe only £pnta a bottle. "’•M&i'fß*

A National Blessing.

[Philadelphia Kocord.] The nineteenth century, above all other ages, has been noted for its many inventions; it has given ns the steam power in its thousand-fold applications, the Telegraph, the Telephone, the Electric Light and innumerable other discoveries, all blessings to humanity—each day bringing us new surprises until we have become so accustomed to the exhibitions of the genius of our century that any new development is at once received as a matter of natural consequence, and most people will simply remark, “I told you so. * As an instance of this fact, We would only call attention to that Wonderful discovery, St. Jacobs Oil. A few years ago this great German remedy had never been heard of in this country; to-day you can hardly find a man, woman or child in the United States who has not used the remedy for some pain or ache, or, at least, has witnessed its use and seen its wonderful effect§ on a fellow-being. St. Jacobs Oil has become a national remedy, for It is known in every city, town, village and hamlet in the country. It is a cosmopolitan preparation; for it is praised by the Americans, Germans, Italians, Bohemians, Danes, Swedes, Portuguese, Spaniards, French, yes, even by the “Heathen Chinee.” It may be termed the universal blessing; for it is Indorsed by the rich and poor, the clergyman and the physician, the merchant and the laborer, in fact by all classes of the community. St. Jaoobs Oil, by its almost marvelous properties, can be employed for a simple cut or sprain, or the worst case of inflammatory rheumatism. Persons who have been confined to their bed for years with that terrible disease, rheumatism, have been completely cured by the use of a single bottle. Such cases have been quoted by the leading journals of our country; for instanoe: The St. Louis Post- Dispatch says: Under the title of Old Probabilities, one of the most useful and valuable officers of the U. S. Government Is most widely known. But quite as well known is Prof. J. H. Tice, the meteorologist of the Mississippi Valley, whose contributions to his favorite study have given him an almost national reputation. On a recent tour through the Northwest, the Professor had a narrow escape from the serious consequences of a sudden and very dangerous illness, the particulars of which ho thus refers to: The day after concluding my course of lectures at Burlington, lowa, on the 21st December last, I was seized with a sudden attack of neuralgia in the chest, giving me the most excruciating pain and almost preventing breathing. My pulse, usually 80, fell to 35; intense nausea of the stomach succeeded, and a cold, clammy sweat covered my entire body. The attending physician could do nothing to relieve me; after suffering for three hours, I thought—as I had been using St. Jaoobs Oil with good effect for rheumatic pains—l would try it. I saturated a piece of flannel large enough to cover my chest, with the Oil, and applied it. The relief was almost Instantaneous. In one hour I was entirely free from pain, and would have taken the train to fill an appointment that night in a neighboring town, had my friends not dissuaded me. As It was, 1 took the night train for my home, St. Louis, and have not been troubled since.

The Boston Globe says-: Chas. S. Strickland, Esq., Builder, No. 9 Boylston street and 106 Harrison avenue, Boston, thus speaks: The pleasure which I hereby attempt to express can only be half convoyed by words. Physicians of very high character and notoriety have heretofore declared my rheumatism incurable. Specifics, almost numberless, have failed to cure or even alleviate the intensity of the pain, whioh has frequently confined tne to iny room for three months at a time. One week ago I was seized with an attack of acute rheumatism of the knee. In a few hours the entire knee joint became swollen to enormous proportions and walking rendered impossible. Nothing remained for me, and I intended to resign myself, as best I might, to another month’s agonies. By chance I learned of the wonderful curative properties of St. Jacobs Oil. I clutched it as a straw, and in a few hours was free from pain in the knee, arm and shoulder. As before stated, I cannot find words to convey my praise and gratitude to the discoverer of this king of rheumatism. , mo j. anas says: r.veryDody on the South Side knows J. D. L. Harvey, Esq., who has been a resident of Chicago for over twenty years. Mr. Harvey expressed himself on the “oil subject” as follows: “I have spent over $2,000 to cure my wife of rheumatism. Two bottles of St. Jacobs Oil accomplished what all the medical treatment failed to bring about. I regard it as a greater discovery than electricity. It Is a boon to the human race, and I am verv glad to have this opportunity of testifying to its remarkable efficacy. I Cannot speak too highly of it, and I would be recreant to my duty to those afflicted did I not lift my voice in its praise.” The Philadelphia Ledger says: Mr. Geo. I. Graham, 820 Nineteenth street, Philadelphia, is a journalist of many years’ experience, and is actively connected with the Philadelphia Sunday Mirror, a leading theatrical and musical journal. During the “late onpleasantness” Mr. Graham was Captain of Company K, One Hundred and Eighty-third Pennsylvania Regiment, and through exposure in the field he contracted a variety of ills, and he says a very troublesome case of rheumatism in the "right leg and foot was a war inheritance that he had in vain tried to get rid of, until he was recommended to try “St. Jacobs Oil.” He states that he felt a slight relief even on the first application of the Oil. Before the first bottle he purchased had been used up he had but few traces of his rheumatism, and at this time he says the disease has entirely left him, which he attributes entirely to the use of St. Jacobs Oil. He remarks: “No person need suffer with rheumatism if St. Jacobs Oil can be obtained; to those who aro afflioted with that complaint it is worth its weight in gold.” The Chicago Inter Ocean says: Captain Paul Boyton, the world-ronowned swimmer, thus speaks of the Old German Remedy: “From constant exposure I am somewhat subject to rheumatic pains, and nothing would ever benefit me until I got h'old of this Old German Remedy. Why, on my travels I have met people who had been suffering with rheumatism for years; by my advice they tried the Oil, and it cured them. I would sooner do without food for days than be without this remedy for one hour. In fact I would not attempt a trip without St. Jacobs Oil, as I do not see how I could get along without it.” St. Jacobs Oil has been indorsed by persons of national reputation,who would not lend their names if they were not convinced that it was a duty they owed to suffering humanity; they have experienced the wonderful effect of the great German remedy, and they want their fellow-creatures to know the result. We would only mention in this connection the Rt. Rev. Bishop Gilmour, Cleveland, Ohio: Excellent for rheumatism and kindred diseases. It has benefited me greatly. Mme. Marie Salvotti, Prima Donna Wilhelmj Concert Troupe: “Nothing can compare with it as a prompt, reliable cure for the ailments named.” Wm. H. Wareing, Esq., Asst. General Superintendent, New York Post Office: “Proved all that is claimed for the Oil, and found efficacious. Ready relief for rheumatic complaints.” Hon. Thos. L. James, Fostmaster, New York: Referring to Superintendent Wareing’s report concerning St. Jacobs Oil, “I concur.” Prof. C. O. Duplesis, Manager Chicago Gymnasium, Chicago, Ill.: ‘•Our professionals arid amateurs use it in preference to everything they have ever tried.” Maj. T. A. Hillier, No. 2235 Master street, Philadelphia, suffered so with rheumatism that he was confined to his bed for weeks at a time, absolutely helpless; happened to hear of St. Jacobs Oil, tried it and was cured. George W. Walling, Esq., Sup’t Police New York City: “Member of this Department relieved of rheumatism by its use.” Stacey Hill, Esq., Mt. Auburn Inclined Plane Railroad, Cincinnati, 0.: “Undoubtedly it is a remarkable medicine.” D. B. Cooke, Esq., American Express Co., Chicago, Ill.: “Gladly bear testimony to its efficacy.” Capt. Henry M. Holzworth, Chief Detective Force, Cleveland, Ohio: “Surprising relief. A world of good.” Prof. Edward Holst, Pianist and Composer, Chicago, Ill.: “Its effects are in harmony with its claims. ” In conclusion we would say that it is the imperative duty of every family to have a bottle of St. Jacobs Oil op hapd for

all emergencies; for the remedy is a true friend in need, and the occasion for its immediate use may come when it is least expected. Follow this advice and it will not be long before- you will join us in galling St. Jaoobs Oil “A National Blessing.

Kicking Troubles.

“ ’Tain’t no use to kick troubles; dat will never cl’ar yon on ’em. Bttt I used to do it in my yotlng days, and so make matters wtiss place o' "better. When I was a little chuck, down home, we lived in a poor cabin a bit Out o’ the city, and we all worked in the ’bacca factory quick’s we was big enotigh. In de yard ’hind de cabin was a big rock, and it was a mighty bother to us in our play. If we played hide-and-seek, de big boys would doge ’hind it, one way or t’other, and when we play ball we run agin it and get hnrt. “One day somethin’ go wrong, and I blame de rock fo’ it, so up I goes to it mighty bold, and I begins to kick it wid all my power! And de more 1 kicked de madder I growed, till I see de blood runnin’ down from my poor little bar* feet. Den I run to my blessed old mammy—she’s been twenty-eight year in glory—screamin’ and hollerin’ like a wild ingine. She scream, too, and ax, ‘Who done dat to my boy?’ and I say, ‘De big rock done it.’ Den I look back, and dere stood de big rock as firm as a king on his throne. He wasn’t runnin’, nor hollorin’, nor bleedin’! He didn’t mind dat ar’ kickin’ no mor’n if he hadn’t got it! He didn’t even run arter me to pay me back. “Now, since I growed to man’s ’state, I’se often called dat rock to mind, and so I never kick troubles. “Dere’s all sort o’ trials and troubles, and some’s got to be treated one way and some another. I’se had poverty; dere wasn’t no use o’ kiokin’ dat. I’se had sickness; what was de good o’ kickin’ at dat ? I’se buried my three fine boys, but I didn’t kick back at old Death! If I had he’d ha’ stood up agin me just as hard and rough and ‘cold as my old rock in Yirginny, and I’d ha’ got the wust on’t! “I knows dere’s enemies dat don’t stan’ still like de rock, but chases you, or flies at you, and tries to overcome you. Well, from all. such, whether they belong to ’arth or hell, I runs in place o’ kickin’! I runs into de strong pavilion, whar’ He bids my soul abide. “ Dere’s one kind o’trouble dat folks calls ‘wexations,’ such as boderation wid onfaithful painters and house-cleaners, dat’s de sort we’s most likely to kiok agin, like I did agin de rock; but kickin’ won’t help ’em, nor make ’em more. You jist got to bear wid ’em and go round ’em, and do de best you can wid ’em in your way. Take my word fo’ it —dat am an old man—you’ll never gain nothin’ by kickin’ rocks. Go round ’em if you kin, and if you can’t, then keep away from ’em. If your troubles is of de flyin’ or chasin’ kind, den run into de great pavilion and hide 'wav from ’em. Never kick a rock.”— Watch Tower.

NO BENEFIT.

(From the Atchison Champion.) An Indiana newspaper thus writes: Mr. Geo. F. Helderle, of Peru, Ind., says that he had suffered very much with rheumatism and used many remedies without benefit. He found the desired relief in St. Jacobs Oil.

A Soldiers Dream.

Just before the battle of Cedar Creek a camp sentinel who tjas off duty temporarily and trying to put in a little sleep, dreamed that he went out on a scout. A mile to the right of the camp he came upon a log barn, and as it began to rain just then, he sought shelter, or was about to, when he heard voices and discovered that the place was already occupied. After a little investigation he discovered scouts had taken up their quarters for the night in the place, and he therefore moved away. The sentinel awoke with such vivid remembrance of the details that he asked permission to When the log barn was described to this man lie located it at once, having passed it a dozen times. The dreamer described the highway exactly as it was, giving every hill and turn, and the scout put such faith in the remainder of the drearrf that he took four soldiers, one of whom was the dreamer, and set out for the place. Three Confederate scouts were asleep in the straw, and were taken without a shot being fired. Three days before the affair at Iteeley’s Ford a corporal in the Sixth Michigan Cavalry dreamed that a brother of his, who was a sergeant in another company, would have his horse killed in action, and would almost immediately mount a dark bay horse with a white nose. Within five minutes both horse and rider would be killed by a shell. This dream was related to more than a score of comrades fully two days before the fight. Early in the fight" the sergeant’s horse was struck square in the forhead by a bullet and dropped dead in his tracks. It was scarcely three minutes before a whitenosed horse, carrying a blood-stained saddle galloped up to the sergeant and halted. He remembered the dream and refused to mount the animal, and soon after picked up a black horse. The white-nosed animal was mounted by a second corporal in another regiment, and the horse and rider were torn to fragments by a shell, in full sight of four companies of the Sixth. —New York Commercial Advertiser.

[From the Pottstown Daily Ledger.] A Michigan journal relates the following: Amos James, Esq., proprietor of tlia Huron House, Port Huron, Mich., suffered so badly with rheumatism that he was unable to raise his arm for three months. Five bottles of St. Jacobs Oil cured him entirely. The value of Erie Canal tonnage last year was. $300,000,000. The wheat acreage of the West, which principally made this business, was more than two and a half million acres more than in 1879, and a like increase of acreage is expected this year. Although the paid tolls on the canal of $113,000 a year were abolished, the toll receipts have leaped up nearly $300,000. The cost of keeping up the canal is $900,000, and the revenues last year were $1,200,000, making a surplus of over $300,000. Before the State of New York discriminated in favor of the canals their business had run down to 700,000 tons in twelve months; and since that liberalizing of rates, the canals do 2,000,000 tons more business, and there has been a consequent lowering of tolls on the railroads. Don’t Take Any Chances on Life when Warner’s Safe Kidney and Liver Cure will regulate aud keep you healthy at all times. Customer —“ Those cigars I bought here yesterday were mighty bad.” Dealer—“ Bad? Why, sir, I’ve sold thousands and thousands of those cigars, and you’re the first one to find fault with them. Customer—“l don’t know anything about that, but I know that when I tried to smoke ” Dealer—“Ah, I see, I see ! That’s where you made a mistake. I supposed that you wanted them to treat your friends with. I thought there must be some mistake about it.” Etlebt’s Extract or Tab and Wild Chebht has been used for twenty years, and during that time has saved many very valuable lives.. Do not neglect a cough or cold until it Is too’late. Try this excellent remedy, and we are sure you wiU be convinced of its merits. Chronic Coughs, aud even Consumptives, are cured by following the directions. Every bottle is warranted to give satisfaction. Prepared by the Emmert Proprietary Co., Chicago. Sold by all good druggists. Fob dyspepsia, indigestion, depression of spirits and general debility m their various forms, also as a preventive against fever and ague and other intermittent fevers, the Febbo Phosphorated Et.ittr of Oalisaya Babe, made by Caswell, Hazard & Co., New York, and sold by all druggists, is the best tonio. and for patients recovering from fever or other sickness it has go equal,

CENSUS RETURNS.

Relations of the Sexes in the Different States. Census Bulletin No. 73, issued s few days ago, is one of the most important and interesting, as it shows the relations of the sexes in the several States and Territories, and gives an analytio&l summary of the changes during the past decade. The following table shows the distribution of population by sex and the number of females to 100,000 males ih the tfnited State and in each State in 1870 and 1880 i NO. FKMAUtS DISTHIBbTIOit bV to ICO,ooo STATES. SEX. MALES. Male*. Female*. 1870. 1880. Total of the United State- 28,520.582 24,632,284 97,K01 96,519 Alabama. 622,800 639,904 1011,993 102,731 Arizona 28,202 12,239 40,235 43,393 Arkansas 418,383 386,181 93,146 92,747 California. 5,182,071 316,416 60,309 66,841 Colorado 129,471 65,178 60,612 50,342 Connecticut... 305,880 316,797 102,G0T. 103,567 Dakota 82,302 52,818 59,782 64,249 Delaware 74,»3 72,501 99,615 97,772 District of Columbia 83,594 94,044 111,764 112,501 Florida. 135,393 181,958 98,574 97,464 Georgia 761,184 777,864 104,625 102.191 Idaho 21,818 10,793 28,104 49,468 Illinois 1,587,433 1,491,330 92,882 93,846 Indiana 1,010,676 967,686 96,880 95,746 lowa 848,232 776,386 90,763 91,539 Kansas 686,725 439,241 80,196 85,562 Kentucky 832,676 816,032 98,447 98,001 Louisiana. 468,833 471,270 100,714 1 0,520 Maine. 324,084 324,801 100,226 100,239 Maryland 462,004 472,628 102,832 102,300 Massachusetts. 858,475 924,537 107,075 107,696 Michigan 862,276 774,056 91,674 89,767 Minnesota 419,202 361,544 86,871 86,283 Mississippi.... 567,137 564,445 100,261 89,527 Missouri 1,127,427 1,041,380 92,034 92,368 Montana. 24,180 10,971 22,801 38,953 Nebiaska 249,276 203,153 74,644 81,599 Nevada 42,013 20,252 81,230 48,203 N. Hampshire.. 170,575 176,409 104,310 103,420 New Jersey.... 659,823 571,160 101,502 102,025 New Mexico.... 63,751 64,679 94,917] 85,770 New York 2,506,283 2,677,627 102,603 102,813 North Carolina. 688,203 711,844 106,546 103,438 Ohio 1,614,165 1,584,074 99,2)4 98,136 Oregon 103,388 71,379 71,130 69,040 Pennsylvania... 2,136,635 2,146,151 100,282j100,445 Ithode Island.. 133,0311 143,495 107,486; 107,864 8. Carolina.... 490,469 506,153 105,1761102,994 Tennessee. 769,374 773,089 101,897 100,479 Texas. 838,719 753,855 93,263 89,882 Utah 74,470 59,436 96,700 93,240 Vermont 166,888 166,398 99,462 99,107 Virginia. 745,839 766,967 105,200 102,832 Wash. Ter 45,977 29,14 56,807 i 63,386 West Virginia.. 314,479 303,964 98,352 96,656 Wisconsin 680,106 635,374 93,558 93,423 Wyoming 14,151 6,637 26,306| 48,901 This table covers the ground of the other tables of the same bulletin. It will bo noticed that the largest exccos of females is in the District of Columbia, Rhode Island standing second, Massachusetts third, Connecticut fourth, North Carolina fifth, New Hampshire sixth and South Carolina seventh. The females aro in excoss in sixteen States and the District of Columbia, and the males are in excess in twentytwo States and all the Territories, In Idaho, Nevada, Wyoming, Arizona and Montana, the females are less than 50 per cent, of the males, the excess of males being largest in Montana and Arizona. Utah and New Mexico are more evenly balanced, the sexes standing in Utah about as they do in Illinois, while Minnesota is near the standard of New Mexico. Since 1870 the proportion of females has increased in Illinois, lowa, Kansas, Nebraska, Nevada and nine other States and Territories. In Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin and twelve other States and Territories in which the males were in excess in 1870, the proportion of females has increased. In the Middle States, Connecticut, Maine, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Maryland, Tennessee, and the District of Columbia, females were in excess in 1870, and the proportion of females has increased. In Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi. New Hampshire, North Carolina and Virginia (in which females were in excess in 1870) the proportion of females has decreased.

A New Vice.

A numbor of persons more or less prominent in different walks of life have died in this city within a few months from the direct effect, it is said, of hypodermic injections of morphine. The effect of morphine under the skin is described as peculiarly and wonderfully agreeable. A delicious languor steals over the frame, the senses are wrapped as in a voluptuous waking dream, and a most joyous consciousness of perfect yet fascinating repose softly overflows the mind. Even strong men and women have frequently found it hard to resist its allurements, and have not been able to resist its beatitudes without arousing all their will. On this account some scribe morphine under any circumstance, fearing the consequences to their patients. Not a few women of the finer type have been wrecked by the habit, and many men, professional and commercial, are steadily raining themselves by its indulgence. It was hailed as a great blessing once, and so it is, properly regulated; but, like so many blessings, it may readily be converted into a curse. —New York Times. Uncle Sam's Condition Powdebs are recommended by stock-owners who have used* them as the best Horse and Cattle Medicine to be had. If the animal is Scraggy, Spiritless, or has no appetite, these Powders are an excellent remedy, and every owner of stock will do well to try'them. They are prepared by the Emmert Proprietary Co., Chicago, 111., a very reliable firm, and sold by all good druggists. The best are the choapest! Buy the diamond boots, made by Rosenthal Brothers, Chicago.

D!'BULL’S COUGH Is Y PUP

jjASTETTEn^ &IfTE?S INVALIDS Who bars lost bat are recovering vital itamina, declare n grateful terras their appreciation of the merits as a tonio of Hoetotter's Stomach Bitten. Not only does it impart strength to the weak, it corrects an Irregular acid state of the stomach, makes the bowels sot at proper intervale, gives ease to those who sailer from rhoumatio and kidney troubles, and conquers ss well as prevent* fever and ague. fW~ For sale by all Druggists and Dealer* generally, A DTI PKEMII'M* Ssmple and terms I ApH free. Monthly Nation, Warren, Pa. (QQQ a year to Agents and expenses. SB Outfit VOU& tree. Address F. SWAIN A CO.Jtugusta.Me. Vfl 11N C MEN Leam Telegraphy! Barn #4O to #IOO a lUUfiu ITICI, month. Graduates guaranteed paying offices. Address Valentine Bbo*.. Janesville. Wis fiqrn A MONTH 1 Agents Wanted ! \ Hfll I 7S Best-Selling Articles In the world; a urnWVIUU ple/r««. JAY BRONSON. Detroit, fclich. Ml ami A YEAR and expenses to '7 '7 '7 agents. Outfit Free. Address P. 4 4 4 O. VICKERY, Augusta, Maine. AGENTS WANTED for the Beet end FastestSelling Pictorial Books and Bibles. Prices reduced S 3 per ct. National Publishing Co., Chicago, 111. Names of Heirs KSj’gysiiJM Kin Gazette," 241 Cutter Street, Cincinnati, Ohio. IfARYLAYD FARMS, ST to #*s per Acre. ItJL Short winters, breezy summers, healthy climate. Catalogue free. H. P.CHAMBERB, Federalaburg, Md. A6ENTB WANT EO!aS3&”MB£"3S references. Garden City Grain Exchange, Chicago, 111. A. J. WAY, 80S Euolld Avenue, Cleveland, 0-

THE MARKETS.

NEW YORK. Beeves $7 00 @lO 75 Hogs 6 50 @7 12* Cottok 10*@ 11* Fxotjb—-Superfine - 3 60 @ 4 00 Wheat—No. 28prlng 117 @llß No. 2 Winter 1 20 @ 1 21 Corn—Ungraded 66 @ 59 Oats-Mixed Western., 42 @ 45 Pore—Mess 16 25 @l6 50 Lard 10*@ 11 CHICAGO. Beeves—Choice Graded Steen..... 6 40 @ 600 Cows and Heifers 2 90 @4OO Medium to Pair 4 60 @490 Hoos 5 00 @ 666 Flour —Fancy White Winter Ex..,. 676 @6 00 Good to Choice Spring Ex. 8 00 @ 695 No. 3 Spring 90 @ 99 Corn—No. 2 87 @ 40 Oats—No. 2 ........ 81 @ 32 Rye—No. M @ 1 00 Barley—No. 2 1 04 @ 1 06 Butter—Choice Creamery 31 @ 88 Eoos—Freeh 21 @ 22 Pore—Mess 15 50 @ls 75 Lard 10*@ 10* MILWAUKEE. Wheat-No. 1 99 @ 1 02 No. 2 9f @ 99 Corn—No. 2 3fl @ 40 Oats—No. 2 33 @ 34 Bte—No. 1. .*. 101 @lO2 Barley—No. 2 8S @ 90 Pore—Mesa 15 25 @l6 60 Lard 10*@ 10* ST. LOUIS. Wheat—No. 2 Bed 1 01 @ 1 02 Corn—Mixed 39 @ 40 Oats—No. 2 88 @ 8* Bye 1 02 @ 1 03 Pore—Mess. 15 60 @l6 75 Lard 10*@ 10* CINCINNATL Wheat 1 06 @ 1 06 Corn 44 @ 45 Oats 36 @ 38 Bye 1 14 @ 1 15 Pore —Mess 15 25 @ls 60 Labd 10*@ 10* TOLEDO. Wheat—No. 1 White. 1 03 @ 1 04 No. 2Bed. 1 06 @ 1 06 Corn—No. 2 43 @ 44 Oats—No. 2 35 @ 36 DETROIT. Flour—Choice 4 90 @ 6 25 Wheat—No. 1 White 1 03 @ 1 04 Corn—No. 1 46 @ 47 Oats—Mixed.. 88 @ 89 Barley (per cental)... 1 45 ® 2 60 Pore— Mess. 16 75 @l6 00 Seed—Clover 4 75 @ 6 10 INDIANAPOLIS. Wheat—No. 2 Red 1 03 @ 1 04 Corn—No. 2. 42 @ 43 Oats 35 <24 36 Pore—Mesa 14 76 @ls 00 EAST LIBERTY, PA. Cattle—Best 525 @ 665 Fair 460 @ 500 Common 97) @ 480 Hons 5 60 @ 6 60 Sheep 850 @6 25

GREAT GERMAN REMEDY FOB RHEUMATISM, NEURALGIA, SCIATICA, LUMBAGO, BACKACHE, GOUT, SORENESS or THM CHEST, SORETHROAT, QUINSY, SWELLINGS AMD SPRAINS, FROSTED FEET AMD EARS, BURN'S AMD SOAIiDS, General Bodily Pains, TOOTH, EAR AMD HEADACHE, AMD ALL OTHER HUB AMD ACHES.

S*Jacobs Oil

on* suffering with pain can hare aheap and positive proof of iti olalmo. dihICTIOM Iff ILXTIff HffGCiOFfL SOLD n ALL 9UIQBISTS AMO DEALERS IN MEDICIRL A. VOGELER A CO. Baltimore, Hid., V. B. A My Annual Catalogue of Vegetable nnd Flower Seed for 1881. rich in engravings t mm photographs of the originals, will be sent FREE to all who apply. I offer one of the largest collections of vegetable soed ever sent out by any seed house In America, a large portion of whioh were grown on my five seed farms, Fidl directions for cultivation on each package. All seed warranted to be both fre>h and true to name ; ao far, that should it prove otherwise, / will refill the order gratis. The original introducer of the Hubbard Squash, Phinney’s Melon, Marblehead Cabbages, Mexican Corn, and score* of other vegetables. I invite the patronage of all icho are anxious to have their seed directly Jrom the grower, fresh, true, attd qf the very best strain. NEW VEGETABLES a Specialty. JAMES J. H. GREGORY, Marblehead. Mass.

PISO'S CURE!KbS&’fot JQXiO JL Picture. C. F. Short, Chicago, 111. R "ro relief » err TIM i KIDDI nMPLOYMENT-ttSSVkSfI^C h Alse SALARY persaoetk. AU EXPENSES [a advanced. WAGES promptly paid. SLOAN ■I * Co. SOS Ooorgo *L Cincinnati. Oe IT nlr Dye Is the SAFEST and B KBT; It sots instantaneously ,producing the most natural shades of Black or Brown: does NOT STAIN the SKIN, end la easily ap-Si'-SS for Laxly orOenileraan. Sold by Druggist* and applied by Hair-Dressers. Depot. 03 William Bt..New York. O. N. ORITTENTOK. Agt FRAZER AXLE GREASE. Beet In the World. Get the genuine. Every package line onr Trade-mark and is marked Frazer’s. MOLD EVERYWHERE. CELLULOID EYE-CLASSES. " Representing the oholoeat-selected TortoiseShell and Amber. The lightest, handsomest, aud strongest known. Sold by Opticians ana Jewelers. Made by the SPENCER OPTICAL M’F’G CO.. 18 Maiden Lane. New York. Rheumatism, Neuralgia. No other preparation has cured so many cases of these distressing complslnts as Pond’S Extract. Pond's Extract Plaster cents) Is Invaluable In these diseases, Lumbago, Pains in Back or side, etc. Pond's Extract Ointment (SO cents), for use when removal of clothing ia Inconvenient, is a great help in relieving Inflammatory cases. Sold by all Druggists. IIPFALSEGODS Ay V. B. MMtil, hilf (V I'X'uXfi , J.p-in. A new book Of MATCHLESS intkrkst and RAKB historic talcs. An accurate history of the Idolatrous Religions of the World, ancient and modern. Their origin, growth,system* of Belief and Worship; their wild superstitions strange legend*, cruel customs, temples, shrines, sacrifices, etc" The only volume ever issued covering this great subject. Contain* e THOUSAND FACTS BTRANOFft THAN FICTION. Is strikingly ill ..strata l and bound in unique style. A wonderful boob, certain to aril Immaasoly. For circulars and terms, address huhaud BnO*„ Chicago, 111. P AGENTS WANTED FOR THE ICTORIAL HISTORY OFTHB WORLD Embracing full and authentic accounts of every nation of anoientrsnd modern times, and including* history of the rise end fall of the Greek end Roman Empires, the middle ages, the crusades, the fendal system, the reforrnation, the dieoovery and settlement of the New World, etc., etc. It oontain* (IT* fine historical engraving*, “d the most complete History of the World ever published. Send for specimen pages end extra terms to Agent*. Address NATIONAL PUBLISHING 00., Otdoafo, DL

A GOOD FAULT MBIT. STRICTLY FURS. [This engraving represent* the Longa to a health; etataj WHAT THE DOCTORS SAY! DR. FLKTOHKR. of Lexiggtan. Missouri. reoommond your 4 Bslmm ra ptmmnmm to any otMV medicine for oeu*h* and oolds.” DR. A. O. JOHNBON. of ML Vernon. D, wrttas s t soma wonderful cures of Consumption to his glass bj the use of “Allen’s Lang Balaam.” DR. J. B. TURNER. BlonnUvlU*, Ala., a pmetletam physician of twenty-five ?*»ra, writes: It Is the bee* preparation for Consumption to the world. For nil Diseases of the Throat, Lang* and Pulmonary Organs, It will he (hand a mess excellent Remedy, AS AN EXPECTORANT IT HAS NO EQUAL IT CONTAINS NO OPIUM IN ANY FORB. J. N. HARRIS A CO. # Proprietor*. CINCINNATI, O. FOR SALE BY ALL ORUG6IBTB. -roil "FIJI 1R MIGHTY. Th« *'F*liißsl sn4 I KU IN only" Pi*. MARTINI* Spanish Karr W>aard will for ») cont« with H**( \ height, golor of •;«. nud look of h*tr. Mod ***B**2*f ~ A * ncTUai of your futur* taugbnnd or wifg, ngyeholof»g»Uf a predicted, with name, time nnd pl M o of md.i.-«. ond dote of tnarrltn. Money returned Id M Bl ahitaßed. WMN Aid raw Frof.L. Mirtilil, 10 Mobi’j PI. Dmlor, Mam. MORE THAN 100 STYLES OfleE MASON & HAMLIN tORGhA-NS are now regularly made, from ml 10# tshown in the cull, the latest end smallest slae, nopulorty known as the BABY ORGAN, at oalr SW, to a large CONCERT ORGAN at ♦BOO. Twihtt sty tx* at from SW to |l3O each; sixty sttixs at *IW to 81«0i r©BTY enxie at fi«o to 4500 and up; cash prices. Sold alto for kabt PATH MTS. from |MB per quarter up. The BABY ORGAN 1b especially adapted to children, but will bo found equally useftil for PRICE. $22. adults, having line quality of tone and power, and sufficient compass (three and o quarter octave 9) for tht full part* of hymn-tunoa, aitthema, won gs and popular Mcred and bgculat muslo generally. MASON A n AMLIN ORGANS are certainly tho BEST IN TIIK WORLD, having won HIGHEST tiiirtzix txahb: being the only American organl uhich have been found worthy of such . The Best Field

sou EMIGRANTS. AN IMMENSE AREA OF RAILROAD AND GOVERNMENT LANDS, OF GREAT FERTILITY. WITHIN EASY REACH OF PERMANENT MARKET, AT EXTREME. LY LOW PRICKS, la now offered for anle In EASTERN OREGON nod EASTERN WASH. INGTON TERRITORY. Thrse Inmla form iinrl of the great GR AIN BELT of the Pacific Slope, mid are within an nvcrntfo diatnnee ol iiaO in 300 wlloa from Portland, where »team»lili»gn»id *m»liik vessels are directly loiideo FOR ALL PARTS OF TIIK WORLD. GRAIN AT PORTLAND. OREGON, COMMANDS A PRICE EQUAL TO THAT OBTAINED IN CHICAGO. The early completion of the Tforthern Pactftc It. K. in notv assured, and guarantee* to settlers cheap and quick transportatiot * and good market* both Kant and I Vest. The opening of this netc overland line, to the Pacific, together with the construction of the network of TOO mile* of railroad by the O. R. & S. Co. in the valleys of the great Columbia and its principal tributaries, renders certain a rapid increase in the value of the lande note open to purchase and pre-emption. There is every indication °fjMt.fz: r . LANDS SHOW an AVERAGE YIELD of ♦O BUSHELS OF WHEAT PER ACRE. No Falldro of Crope ever known. RAILROAD LANDS offered at the aalferm rate an Acre. CLIMATE MILO »N 0 HEALTHY. For pamphlet and maps. de atrip t Ira as country. Ua resources, climate, rwuteos travel* rates and full information* iiMvooo A. Is. STOKES, Gen’l Eualern Paaa’r Agent, AM Clark St.. Chicago. 11lBattle Creek, Michigan, MANUFJ.OTtrains OP THX OJTLY OXXtJOT THRESHERS, Traction and Plain Enginaa and Horse-Power*. Moat Complete Thresher Factory 1 EstHbllehod In the World. I IS4S A VCABA of continuous smdeuoose,ful bust. J * I TtAnOnoi, without chauKC of name, a 1 £_ management, or location, to “bath vp” IM Jiff broad warranty given on ell OUT goods. STEAM-POWER SEPARATOR* and ever eeen in the American market . . A multitude of special features and impressments for 1881. together with superior qualities in cousinsMon and materials not dreamed of by other makera. Four sizes of Separators, from G to 18 hang capacity, for steam or horse pause. Two styles of “ Mounted Horee-Powera. comparable wood-work of our machinery. TRACTION ENOINES&ai Strongest most durabls.aerd sflcisnt tear n*. mads. 8, 10, 13 Hors* Power. I MI 4 * • j ELK* OLratuara sent free. Address NICHOLS, SHEPARD * 00. Bnttio Crook. Mlot)loan.

Lay the Axe' to the Root If you would destroy the cankering worm. For any external pain, sore, wound or lame* ness of man or beast, use only MEXICAN MUSTANG LINIMENT. It penetrates all muscle and flesh to the very bone, expelling all inflammation, soreness and pain, and healing the diseased part as no other Liniment ever did or can. So saith the experience of two generations of sufferers, and so will you say when yon have tried the “ Mustang.” - O W.U. Wa 12 WHEN WRITING TO ADVERTIKERH, VV please lay you eaw the advertisement to title paper,