Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 February 1882 — Page 4

INVOCATION. y*OM TH* OAXUO. Come, come, come, my love, come end hurry, and come, my dear; .. You’ll find me ever loving true, or lying on my bier; For love of you haa burned me through—haa ope’d a gap for Death, I fear; Oh, come, come, come, my love, before hit hand la here. Though angeJa’ aworda should bar your way, tarn you not back, but persevere; Though heaven should send down fiery hall, rain lightnings, do not fear; Let your small, exquisite, white feet fly over cliffs and mountains sheer, Bricge rivers, scatter armed foes, shine on the hilltops near. Like citizens to greet their Queen, then shall my hopes, desires, troop out, Eager to meet you on your way and oompass you about— To epeed, to urge, to lift you on, ’mid storms of joy and floods of tears. . . . . To the poor town, the battered wall, delivered by your spears. The javelin-scourges of your eye, the lightnings trout your glorious face, Shall drive away death’s armies gray in ruin and disgrace. Lilt me you shall, and succor me; my ancient courage you shall rouse, Till like a giant I shall stand, with thunder on my brows. Then, hand in hand, we’ll laugh at Death, his brainless skull, his nerveless arm; How can he wreak our overthrow, or plot, or do us harm 7 For what so weak a thing as Death when you are near, when you are near? Oh, come, come, come, my love, before his hand is here! —Roger Riordan, in Century.

THE SECRET OF THE SEA.

The story I am about to relate describes an actual occurrence. The recompense that came so speedily, and in such a singular manner, to the principal actor in the events that are portrayed' will no doubt suggest to sanguine temperaments a providential interference. The real names of the persons thus brought to the notice of the reader, I have, of course, withheld. Uncle Simon, as he was called, lived on a small island in the Casco bay, on the coast .of Maine. He was a simpleminded but hard-working fisherman of great integrity of character. .During the summer months, large schools of hake frequent the muddy bottom in the bay, affording a rich harvest to the fishermen along the coast As these fish take the hook best in the night, it is the custom of the fishermen to gcfin their small boats to the fishingground about sunset and fish till daybreak, or somewhat later. One forenoon in July, Uncle Simon was returning to the shore from baking after a successful night’s work. The light wind was barely sufficient to give h.s heavily-laden boat steerage-way and, weary Irom his toil, the old man was nodding at the helm. Suddenly his halfclosed eyes caught sight of a dead body in the water, just ahead of his boat. bo startling a sight roused Uncle Simon thoroughly. He opened his eyes wide, fur just one moment, then lowered Lis sail, and, reaching out his boathook. drew the dead body toward him. It proved to be that of a man, floating face downward. The skirts of hie coat were thrown up over his shoulders, and from a deep inside pocket of the skirts protruded a large leathern pocket-book. .-ill that prevented this book irom falling out was the lining of the pocket, winch was of cotton cloth, and being saturated by the water, held it. It at once attracted Uncle Simon’s notice, and he tuew it forth and placed it in the boat. The body had been so long in the water that it could not be taken into the bout, but Uncle Simon, by means of a rope, towed it to the island. On examining the pocket-booK neiound that it contained a large amount of money in bana bills, which were soaked with water, but not otherwise injured. Uncle Simon was a poor men. He had nothing but poverty to look forward to in his old age. This money was like a mine of wealth in his eyes. Men have been murdered, and souls have been lost for a smaller amount than that pocketbook contained. What was to hinder him from calling it his own? No living creature was within five or six miles of him. He was utterly alone. As he towed the body to the land, how easy it would have been to have kept the book, and then to allow the voiceless ocean to swallow up the dead body. Who would have known his guilty secret? But it is the inward inclination that gives force to temptation, and there was nothing in the nature of this simple fisherman that could so incline his upright mind as to make it yield. He took the pocket-book with him, and, after reaching home, he dried the bills, and then carefully recounted them. There were $950.

From letters and bills in the book, he ascertained that the body was that of a Capt. Small, who, some weeks before, h id run his vessel on Half-Way rock (a dry ledge midway between Cape Elizabeth and Cape Small Point), and had lost her. He also ascertained that the vessel was owned m North Yarmouth, a neighboring' town. At once he sent word to the owners, one of whom came to the island. They knew what freight-money the Captain Lrad in his possession, for he had written to them from his last port of depart tire. On counting the money, it was found the right amount to a dollar. About a fortnight after this, the old man was going home in his boat from Drunken Ledge, where he had been to fi-h for rock-cod, when he came across a raft of drift wood. There was but little wood on his island, and Uncle Simon, like most of his neighbors, was obliged to purchase his fuel. He took in sail and set to work picking up the wood. While thus occupien, he saw something bobbing up and dowd in the water that excited his curiosity, and which proved to be the handle of a mallet, the mallet itself being under water. He drew it toward him, and, after examining it with some attention, said to himself, ‘ ‘ It’s master heavy. Some foreign wood, I guess. It don’t look as if it had been used any. I declare I wouldn't believe it could float if I hadn’t seen it with my own eyes. It didn’t but just float, though. Anyhow, it’s a good mallet* and it’ll come handy in'the shop.' j Uncle Simon had a small shop, where he made lobster traps and repaired boats in the winter, when the weather was too rough tp fish. He put the mallet on the bench among his tools, and thought no morefoidt for months.

A common joiner’s mallet is about six inches long, by three in diameter at the ends.JHth a swell in the middle, and is nsmlly made by being turned in a lathe. This mallet was not round, but nearly square, with the corners taken off. .it was seven inches long and four inches by five in thickness at the ends, being somewhat larger in the middle. As .a piece of workmanship, it was handsomely made, and was finished perfectly smooth. It certainly could not have been a long time in the water, as there were no barnacles or grass sticking to it, and much of the varnish with which it had once been coated still remained. One*’ rainy day late in the fall, Unde SimoffAvas at work in the shop, when JakelKilgore, one of the neighbor’s boys, entered, and seated himself on the work bench. Soon after, Skipper Warding dropped in. It was not long before the boy saw the mallet. “Uncle, where did you get that big mallet? ” he asked. “ Picked it up adrift,” was the brief reply. While the old folks were chatting the boy kept his eyes on the mallet, it .such a curious one, and he kept turning it oygt and over. At length he smd: “Undo Simon, there’s a square pfece fayedTnto one end of this mallet; T can see +h*» seam.” “lAink it’s like enough; my ey&3 ain’t n sharp as yourn, an’ yours"won’t, be as they are. now when you’ve fiabed|B many long nights as I have.”

The boy worked a long time trying to dig out with the pointe of a pair of compasses the piece that had been inserted in the mallet. “ Let me look at it.”\said Unclp Simon ; “ I’m afeard you’ll®ead tue peiuw of my compasses.” Looking at the end of the mallet he said : “ The man that fayed that piece in was a workman. Better let it alone. I doubt if it can be got out without boring.” “ Do try and get it out. Uncle Simon I” said tue boy. ’‘lt’s Uoiiow, 1 snow it is. I don’t believe but what there’s something in there.” “ Hand the thing to me,” said Skipper Harding, and after looking at it a moment he. said: “The boy’s right, Uncle Simon; that mallet’s hollow; if it wasn’t you’d never have picked it up adrift, unless it was in a boat or on a raft” “I certainly did take it out of water twenty fathoms deep, between Eagle island and Drunken ledge; but why do you say that ?” ‘ ‘ Because that mallet’s made of linkum vitee [lignum vita]. ’Twill sink in water like a stone if it is solid. It never could have floated.” “ The handle’s white ash. Wouldn’t the handle float it ?” “ No, it wouldn’t begin to.” Uncle Simon put the mallet in a vise, and with a chisel loosened and removed the wedge-shaped piece that had been so nicely fitted in, when a large cavity appeared, stuffed with oakum. After pulling out the oakum, he took the mallet from the vise, and, striking the end on the bench, out came a large number of gold coins, which rolled over the bench and on to the floor. “What be they? what be they?” shouted John Kilgore—who had never seen a gold coin—picking up one of them, at which he gazed with dilating eyes, and then tried his teeth on it. ‘ “English sovereigns,” replied the skipper. “Be they real goold, like granny’s gooia oeaus ? ‘‘ I reckon they are a great deal better gold than your granny’s beads. At any rate, every one of ’em is worth almost $5.” The coins were forty in number. On examining the cavity, it was evident that they had occupied but a small part of it, the rest being taken up with a piece of clean new duck, which had been laid next to the metal, and with oakum. “No wonder it floated, with all that hollow. That’s the way we fix our lob-ter buoys when they get watersoaked. “ Now, skipper, in your younger days you’ve followed the sea, and been in foreign parts, but I’ve been only a fisherman. I want you to give me your candid opinion. Who did that gold belong to? and what could possess any person that they should put money in such a place as that? ” “Well, it’s my opinion that the money belonged to some ship’s carpenter; most likely the carpenter of a man-of-war, because merchant vessels don’t often carry a carpenter. Most likely that was his money-box. He knew nobody would think of looking in a mallet for Iris money, and that piece was fayed in so neat that before the varnish was washed off no person would be likely to observe it. “ I knew an old Swede, a carpenter, that went for years in one vessel, and he had a place mortised in a timber-head, where he kept, his money, and nobody knew it till he got able to stay ashore, and then he took it out. 1 expect the vessel this poor fellow was in was lost, and he with hea. You’ll have to keep the money. You c in’t find any owner for this, as you did for the other.”

“I shall try; I shall put up a writing on the school house and on the meeting house, and tell the selectmen.” “ That mallet might have drifted 'across the ocean ; and, by there being sovereigns in it, 1 expect it oeiongea to some English man-of-war’s man. It’s my belief and judgment you’ll never find an owner for it; though of course it’s your duty to try.” “Skipper Harding, if Uncle Simon tries and don’t find an owner for the money, whose will it be then ?” asked the boy. “His; and when the rightful owner had done with it, it was for Simon ; and it was for no other person to find.” “Couldn’t anybody else find it?” “No; and what establishes me more in that belief is that, though I never knew or heard of his finding that mallet till I came in here this morning, I remember the time very well, because we’d ’lotted to go together rock-fishing that day to Drunken Ledge; but I was called away to Small Point to look at a vessel we thought of buying.” “Coming back, 1 ran foul of that same drift-stuff, and let the main sheet fly, thinking I’d roll the sails up and get part of it. But I changed my mind, trimmed the sheet down again, and kept on. I had been home about two hours, when in came Uncle Simon with part of that stuff.” “ That’s the very day I found the mallet, the day we set to go together and didn’t, and 1 remember you said I’d got your drift-stuff when I came in.” “ Had I gone to taking in the wood, 1 should have found the mallet, but it was not thus to be ; it was for you, Simon. You wouldn’t take anything from the North Yarmouth folks, ’cause you said you didn’t want to be paid to do right, and this time the ocean took the matter in hand. It is my belief that the winds and waves had their orders to whom to carry that piece of wood.” Skipper Harding never had occasion to change the opinion so emphatically expressed, as, after due notice given, no person ever appeared to prove his lawful claims to the money.— Youth’s Companion.

Brother Gardner on liaising Boys.

“If I had a boy to bring up I wouldn’t bring him up too softly. Ebery day ob my life I meet men who are brung up softly. As boys dey air kissed and petted and stuffed wid sweet cake and cried ober. As young men dey hab nuflin’ to do but to spend money, dress like monkeys, loaf on de street and look down on honest labor. As men dey am a failure. People who doan’ hate ’em and avoid ’em feel to pity •’em, and dat’s jest as bad. When I sees a man whom eberybody dislikes, I realize dat he was brung up on de goody-good plan as a boy. “If I had a boy I’d rub him agin the world. I’d put responsibility on his shoulders. If he got sugar he’d airn it. If he got time fer leafin’ it would be only arter his work wus done. Jf he wus ugly or obstinate I’d tan it outen him instill of bpyin’ him off. If you want to make a selfish man humor de whim of a boy. If you want to make a coward, forbid your boy to. defend his rights. I’d teach my boy dat all boys had rights, and dat while he had no business to trample ou de rights ob odder boys, no boy had de privilege ob takin’ him by de nose. Las’ night an ole man libin’ up my way wus turned out ob doors by his boy. He has been tryin’ de goody-good plan on dat youth fer de las’ twenty y’ars, and dis am de legitimate result. He didn’t want him to work, kase work am hard. He didn’t want him to dress plain, fer fear people would look down on him. De boy am to-day a loafer, neither grateful fer what has bin done in de pas’, nor carin’ what happens in de fucher. Ten y’ars ago he wus cried ober, run arter and coaxed and bought off* and his mudder libed to see him a loafer and his sadder has found him a ingrate.”

A Spoonful of Sunday Complexion.

mind,” she added, seeing her tenderhearted and sensitive lover weep, “nevermind; just wait here a minute and Hl run up and bring you down a spoonful of my Sunday complexion.” That comforted him.

BITS OF INFORMATION.

St. Petersburg was founded by Peter the Great in 1703. Cbcbsus was King of Lydia in the middle of the sixth century B. C. The invention of keys is ascribed to Theodore of Samos, 730 B. C. The “death watch” is a small insect of the beetle species, the male of which makes a peculiar ticking noise, which superstitious people imagine is a premonition of death. Gunpowder was known to, and made by, the Chinese at a date by no means certain. It is said to have been made known by Schwurz, a monk of Geslar, in Germany, about 1330. The word “limited” following the name of an incorporated company publishes the fact that, by the act under which the company is incorporated, the liability of each stockholder is limited by the amount of stock which he owns. For centuries past, in Scotland, the jack-knife has been known as a “ jock-te-leg,” which barbarism is neither more nor less than a corruption of “Jaques de Liege,” the name of a Flemish cutler, whose knives were once highly esteemed in North Britain, and always bore their maker’s name. No doubt Jacques de Liege sent cutlery to England as well as to Scotland, and from Jacques’ knife to jack-knife is a very short step.

The annuities of the royal family of England are as follows: Her Majesty, the Queen£3Bs,ooo Prince of Wales 40,000 Princess of Wales 10,000 Crown Princess of Russia 8,000 Duke of Edinburg 25,000 Duke of Connaught 25,000 Princess Christian of Schleswig-Holstein... 6,000 Princess Louise 6,000 Prince Leopold. 15,000 Duchess of Cambridge 6,000 Duchess of Mecklenberg-Strelltz 3,000 Duke of Cambridge. 12,000 Duchess of Teok 3,000 Tots), £546,000, er about $2,600,000. There are a number of theories for the origin of the dollar mark. One is, that it is a combination of U. S M the initials of the United States; another, that it is a modification of the figure 8, the dollar being formerly called a “ piece of eight,” and designated by the character 8-8. The third theory is, that it is a combination of H. 8., the mark of the Roman unit, while a fourth is, that it is a combination of P. and 8., from the Spanish peso duro, which signifies “hard dollar.” In Spanish accounts, peso ia contracted by writing the S. over P., and placing it after the sum. But the best origin of the sign is offered by the editor of the London 'Whitehall Review, who recently propounded the question at a dinner-party in that city, at which the American Consul was present. As no one could tell, the editor gave the following explanation: “It is taken from the Spanish dollar, and the sign is to be found, of course, in the associations of the Spanish dollar. ‘We littered the table with books in the course of our researches, but I proved my point in the end. On the reverse of the Spanish dollar is a representation of the Pillars of Hercules, and round each pillar is a scroll, with the inscription, ‘ Plus ultra.’ This device, in course of time, has degenerated into the sign which stands at present for American as well as Spanish dollars—*s.’ The scroll around the pillars, I take it, represents the two serpents sent by J uno to destroy Hercules in his cradle. ”

Every Man “His Own Doctor.”

Mauy a man who, if his horse or cow is sick, sends at once for the veterinary practitioner for ailments of his own that are on the face of them quite as serious and as much in need of professional treatment. He will take the advice of an ignorant neighbor as to what is “good for” an illness, when he Would laugh at the idea of going to the same person for counsel in any other business or concern whatever. In the days of our grandmothers, when the household materia medica consisted of “roofs and yarbs,” with a few simple drugs like epsom salts, this domestic or “lay” prescribing was less dangerous than in these latter days when concentrated and powerful agents have become so common and familiar. The household remedies of the olden time were rarely liable to do much harm, even if they did no good. The cure was generally in reality left to nature, though the “roots and yarbs” got the credit of it. But most of the drugs of our day are not of this inert or negative character, and the danger in their use by the ignorant is a real and serious danger. The most powerful medicines that unprofessional people of a former generation ventured to fool with bore about the same relation to those in vogue that gunpower does the nitro-glycerine; yet the latter are used even more recklessly than the former ever were. A little knowledge is not always a dangerous thing, but when it leads a man to think that he can “doctor” himself, in ailments of any serious nature, the old and often-abused proverb is indisputably true.— Journal of Chemistry.

Sweet Home.

When two young people love each other and marry, they restore the picture of the apostolic church. They are of one heart and soul. Neither do they say that anything they possess is their own, but they have all things in common. Their mutual trust in each other draws all that is best in both. Love is the angel who rolls the stone from the grave in which we bury our tetter nature, and it comes forth. Love makes all things new; makes all cares light, all pain easy. It is the one enchantment in human life which realizes Fortunio’s purse and Aladdin’s palace, and turns the “Arabian Ni- ht-s” into mere prose by comparison. Before real society can come, true homes must come. As in a sheltered nook in the midst of a great sea of ice which rolls.down the summit of Mount Blanc is found a little green spot full of tender flowers, so in the shelter of home, in the warm atmosphere of household love, spring up the pure affections of parent and child, father, mother, son, daughter; of brothers and sisters. Whatever makes this insecure and divorce frequent, makes of marriage, not a union for life, but an experimi nt which may be tried as often as we may choose, and abandoned when w r e like. And this cuts up by the roots all the dear affections of home; leaves children orphaned, destroys fatherly and motherly love, and is a virtual dissolution of society. I know the great difficulties of this question, and how much is required to solve them. But whatever weakens the permanence of marriage tends to dissolve so< iety; for permanent homes are to the social state what the little cells are to the body. They are the commencement of organic life, the centre from which, of necessity, all organization must proceed.

Electric Light and Plant Life.

Dr. Siemens, the well-known European electrician, claims to have discovered, by experiments, that flowers and fruit can be ripened by electric light. The first trials were not very satisfactory, so clouds were imitated by jets of steam, and the rays also intercepted by thin plates of glass. White glass produced the most vigorous growth, yellow the next, red and blue producing only lanky growths. The cost was only twelve cents a night for 5,000 candle power.. If this is true, peaches, peas and other luxuries will he within reach, while a summer drouth may be defied to db its worst • December will be the planting month *nd February will be the harvest season. ?■'

Dead Stars.

Taka the sands of the sea, the stars of heaven, says Sir John Lubbock, have ever been used as effective symbols of number, and the improvements in our methods of observation have added fresh force to our original impressions. We now know that our earth is but a fraction of one out of at least 75,000,000 ■worlds, But this is not all. In addition to the luminary heavenly bodies we cannot doubt that there are countless others, invisible to us from their greater distance, smaller size, or feebler light; indeed we know that there are many dark bodies which now emit no light or comparatively little. Thus in the case of Procyon, the existence of an invisible body is proved by the movement of the visible star. Again I may refer to the curious phenomena presented by Algol, a bright star in the head of Medusa. This star shines without change for two days and thirteen hours; then, in three hours and a half, dwindles from a star of the second to one of the fourth magnitude; and then, in another three and a half hours, reassumes its original brilliancy. These changes seem certainly to indicate the presence of an opaque body which intercepts at regular intervals a part of the light emitted by Algol. Thus the floor of heaven is not only “thick inlaid with the patines of bright gold,” but studded also with extinct stars—once probably as brilliant as our own sun, but now dead and cold, as Helmholtz tells us that our sun itself will be, some seventeen millions of years hence.

“Throw Physic to the Dogs, I’ll None of It.”

The Magnetic Needle.

A condensed explanation in regard tc the needle pointing to the northward and southward is as follows : The magnetic poles of the earth do not coincide with the geographical poles. The axis oi rotation makes an angle of about 23C with a line joining the former. The northern magnetic pole is at present near the Arctic circle, on the meridian oi Omaha. Hence the needle does not everywhere point to the astronomical north, and is constantly variable within certain limits. At San Francisco it points about seventeen degrees tc the east of north, and at Calais, Me, as much to the west. At the northern magnetic pole, a balanced needle points with its north end downward in a plumb line. At San Francisco it dips about sixty-three degrees, and at the southern magnetic pole the south end points directly down. The attraction of the earth upon a magnetic needle at its surface is of about the same force as that of a hard steel magnet, forty inches long, strongly magnetized, at a distance of one foot. The foregoing is the accepted explanation of the fact that the needle points to the northward and southward. Of course, no ultimate reason can be given for this i atural fact, any more than for any other observed fact in nature.” “ Golden Medical Discovery” ("words registered as a trade-mark) cures all numors from the pimple or eruption to great virulent sating ulcers.

“Ma, what’s a sweet, sugar-coated little angel pill ?” asked a Williamsport boy of his mother at breakfast the other day. “ I declare, Willie, I don’t know,” was the laughing reply. “ Where <Jid you ever hear such an odd expression as that?” “Oh, I heard pa telling Mary that in the hall, last night,, when you was over to Mrs. B -’s.” The “sweet sugar-coated little angel pill” was discharged the next day.— Williamsport Breakfast Table.

The “ Favorite Prescription ” of Dr. Pierce cures female weakness and kindred affections. By druggists. IN one nana or a corpse tne Laplanders place some money to pay the fee of the porter at die gate of paradise.

Almost Diseouraged!

Such expressions are very common among those afflicted with a Cough or Cold. They have called on the doctor, and he has pieHcribed. They have ustd nearly everything which has been recommended, but are no better. Hope abandons them, and they Lok with distrust upon all medicines. But there is an old family remedy advertised in this pap< r which possesses true merit. Allen’s Lung Balsam will cure your Cough or Cold. *Try it, and you will receive new hope and a perfect cure. It is pleasant to take and perfectly harmless. The city druggists all sell it. The aged live too much in the past, the young too much in the future; none of us enough in the present.— Seymour Times.

Number of Rebel Troops.

, It has been impossble to obtain what could bo called exact statistics of the rebel force, except as given in McPherson’s “History of the Rebellion,” as follows : Alabama 40,000 Texas 29,000 F10rida........ 4,000 Tennessee .... 34,000 Georgia 54,006 Virginia,lo3,ooo Louisiana 36,000 Arkansas 28,000 Mississippi.... 40,000 Kentucky..... 20,000 North Carolina. 25,000 Maryland 20,000 South Carolina. 25,000 Missouri 35,000 T0ta1493,000 It is stated by the same authority that “ the estimate of Maryland must be excessive.” General Bedeau says in his “ Military History of Ulvsus 8. Grant ” (volume iii., page 639), that May 26, the last organized rebel force disappeared from the territory of the United States. Every man who had borne arms against the Government was a prisoner. One hundred and seventy-four thousand two hundred and twenty-three rebel prisoners were paroled.” Chicago InterOcean. People who cannot spend the season or winds and cold rams in sunny Florida should keep Dr. Bull’s Cough Syrup in the house. It is the best remedy for Colds and Coughs, and will relieve sufferers at once.

Railroad Fare to the Stars.

The idea of distance is often beat conveyed by some every-day illustration. When Horace wrote “Sic itur ad astra,” —Thus it is traveled to the stars—he was not thinking of railroads. But they are familiar enough to us. In a lecture by Dr. William Huggins, the eminent English astronomer, an to the results of spectrum analysis as applied to the heavenly bodies, this striking statement was used to give some faint notion of the enormous distance of the stars. “The earth’s orbit,'* said the lecturer, “which is more than one hundred and ninety million miles in diameter, at most of the stars dwindles to a mere point, and has no sensible size whatever. ' “If you suppose a railroad from -the earth to the nearest fixed star, which is supposed to be twenty billions of miles irvni us, and if you suppose the price of the fare to be one penny for every hundred miles—not, mind, a penny per mile—then, if you take a mass of gold to the ticket office equal to the national debt (three billion, eight hundred million dollars), it would not be sufficient to pay for a ticket to the nearest fixecHstar. “And I think I should not be. wrong in saying that thbre are stars so far off that at the price of one penny for every hundred miles, the whole treasure of the earth would not be sufficient to pay for a ticket.”

Thb last legal execution in Ugland for witchcraft occurred in 1716, but in 1863 a reputed wizard was drowned in a pond at the village of Heddingham, in Essex, not forty miles from .London ; while in 1867 “Dr. Harris” was committed for trial at the Radnorshire assizes for duping persons into the belief that their ailments were caused by their being “ witched,” and for professing to cure them by giving them charms to wear suspended round their necks.

On Thirty Days’ Trial.

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RESCUED FROM DEATH.

William J.Coughlin,of Somerville, Mass., says: In ths fall of 1876 I was taken with bleeding of the lungs, followed by a severs cough. I lost my appetite and flesh, and was confined to niy bed. In 1877 I was admitted to the hosp tai. The doctors said I had a hole in my lung as big as a half dollar. Atone time a. report went around that I was dead. I gave up hope, but a friend told me of Ds. William Hall’s Balsam von the Lungs. I got a bottle, when, to my surprise, I commenced to teel better, and to-day I feel better than for three years past. I write this hoping every one afflicted with diseased lungs will take Dr. William Hall’s Balsam, and be convinced that CONSUMPTION CAN BE CURED. I Can posi. lively say it has done more good than all tine sltesr (wadi, sines I have taken since my si' -'.ess

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ADDmoJiAL Emia la retard foth« great curette propertfoa at DR. SCHENCK S MEDICINES Undoubted Cures CONSUMPTION. Th® Originals of the following Letters, as well as many thousand others, whieh lack of space in this paper prevents onr 4 publishing, can be seen by any one at the Office of Dr. J. H. Schenck & Son, in Philadelphia. We ask the afflicted te go and see the people who write these Lettetrs. If this is impossible, write to them, inclosing a stamp for return postage. For other Certificates of Cures, send for Dr. Schenck’s Book on Consumption, Liver Complaint' und Dyspepsia. It gives a full description of these diseases in their various forms; also, valuable information in regard to the diet and clothing of the sick; how and when exercise should be takeu, &c. This book is the result of many years of experience in the treatment of Lung Diseases, and should be read not only by the afflicted, but by those who, from hereditary taint or other cause, suppose themselves liable to any affection of the throat or lungs. IT IS SENT FREE, POSTPAID, TO ALL APPLICANTS. AtMrettn I)r. J. B. Schenck dt Son, No. l>3 7 Irch St., Philadelphia, Pa. Db. Schenck : Dear Sir—l have used your Pu’monic Syrup, Seiweed Tonic and Mandrake PilU in ray fam’ly for yeirs, and have always found them good and reliable medicines. I believe that they will do all that you da m for them. W. H. BLAKE, Captain, Steamer John B. Maude, Memphis and St. Louis Pa' ket Line. St. Louih, Mo., Dec. 12th, 1879. Db. J. H. Schenck: Dear Sir—ln the fall of 1871 my son was taken sick, and several of the prominent doctors of this city pronounced his disease Consumption. By their advice I took him South, but the change of climate did him no good. Soon after this Captain Blake, an intimate friend, told mo how good your medicines were in such diseases, and advised me to give them a trial. I did gi, and he soon began to gain flesh and strength, and finally was entirely cured. I cheerfully recommend your medicines to all who are similarly afflicted. Youth truly, PORTER LEONARD, Corner Ninth and Pine Streets. From a prominent Dry-Goods Merchant of Grass Lake, Michigan. Db. J. H. Schenck, Philadelphia, Pa.: Dear Sir—Some years ago I was told by several of the beet physicians of this county that I had Consumption, and that I could live but a short time. I hid rll the symptoms—night sweats, a dry cough, with severe pain in my lungs at times, nd I was very short of breath with the least exertion. My appet to was very poor, and I l>ecarae so weak that I was unable to attend to any business. I received ro benefit from the remedies given me by physicians, and I was at last induced to try your medicines by reading the oer'ificates of cases published by you. lat once began to improve, and they finally made a perfect cure. I am now in perfect health, and in active business in this place, where lam well known by all. I have advised many others to use your medicines, and can tell of some wonderful cures made i>y them, to those who may be interested. I believe that your remedies will cure Consumption, even in its i dvanced stages, as you claim. Yours truly, A. SHELLY, Of the firm of Smith 4 Shelly, Dry-Goods Merchants, Oct. 27th, 1880. Grass Lake, Mich.

From E. Narmandin, Jr., Esq., of Woonsocket, R. I. Db. Schenck 4 Son, Philadelphia: Dear Sirs—l have been cured of what I believe to have been Liver Complaint in its worst form, which, before I got relief, affected my lungs quite seriously. I had used the medicines prescribed by a physician of this place for a long time without benefit before I began to take yom remedies. I first heard of them by your advertisement in the Patriot of this place, and, concluding to use them, I purchased a bottle of Pulmonic Syrup and Seaweed Tonic.. They gave me great relief, and by the time I had used them up I felt almost well. So I stopped using them for some time, but I soon found that the disease was not broken up. I then got more medicine, and continued using it until I wm well. My symptoms were continuous cough, night sweats, raising of matter streaked with blood, soreness in my lungs and at the pit of my stomach, which was also very much swollen at times. I was so weak that I could not go up-sta rs without help, and was confined to the house for many weeks. I was very much reduced in flee i and had no appetite, and nothing I ate seemed to digest. Since my recovery I have recommended your medicines to a great many; among others, a lady who had what every one supposed to be Consumption of the lungs for four years. She has entirely recovered by tlw use of them, and is now a strong, heiilthy woman. I can also refer to others in this place who have been greatly benefited by their use. Yours truly, E. NARMANDIN, JR. Woonsocket, R. I, June Ist, 1881.

The Rev. Joseph S. Lame, Pastor of 18th Street Methodist Episcopal Church of Philadelphia, writes under date of Sept. Ist, 1881: Five years ago I was a great sufferer from Dyspepsia, Bronchial Affection and Pulmonary trouble. I tried many remedies without receiving any benefit. I was so sick that I thought many times t hat I should be compelled to give up preaching. lat last procured Dr. Schenck's remedies; in a short time they restored me to perfect health, and I have remained well to this dsy. I believe them to have great curative properties. Why I have the Utmost Confidence in Dr. J. H. Schenck and his Medicines. During the past two years my mother and brother have died of Consumption. I was myself quite unwell most of this time, and when. Shortly after their death, Bwaa attacked with cough and severe hemorrhages, I naturally concluded that I was destined to go with the. agipa disease. I immediately consulted a physician who made aspecialty of lung diseases. After examining mo, he said that be thought my lungs were sound and that I would soon recover. In less than a week after this I had another severe hemorrhage. Thinking that my physician had made a mist ike in my case, I consulted another doctor. He thought my lungs affected, and prescilbed for mo for a long time. I got no better under his treatment, but generally worse. My cough was very bad, my appetite entirely gone, I had severe pain in my right side, and for months I did not sleep more than two or t itre hours In a night. My tongue was heavily ooated, and I had a bad taste in my mouth. I had the headache almost all the time. Feeling that something mgst be done, I at last concluded to consult with Dr. Schenck, the physician who, I think, I have good reason to believe to be the beet in the treatment of lung disease. I went to hie office in Boston and was examined. He found my left lung quite badly diseased and my liver seriously affected. He told,** me that I could be cured U I would follow bls dlrecMoruL Of course I consented to do so, and I very soon saw tmF my oonfidenoe in bls ability was well placed. I took the Mandrake Pills, Seaweed Tonic and Pulmonic Syrup afl at one time, aa directed by him, and within one month my worst symptoms were gone. I went to see the doctor on his next visit to Boston, which was one month after the first time I saw him, and he said,-"Only continue with the medicine and you will surely get well.” I did so, and kept on gaining in every way until I was perfectly well and able to work aa usual. Since my recovery I hare not lost a day's time except when I have made friendly visits to the doctor at his Boston office. My cough is gone, my appetite is good. I have no headache or pain A" my side, I sleep better than I ever did in my life, and my lunge are apparently healed, as I have no hemorrhages. These are the reasons why I believe in and recommend Dr. J. H. Schenck and his medicines. He did just what ho said he would do for me, and I believe that I owe my life to his medicines and care. FRED F. TRUEL. Hvmom, Maas, May JBth, Ml.

Hereditary Consumption Cured. D*. Sohknok: Iteir W 1B ths antwian es 0771 had a smro eoMh. with terrible pain In my sides and between my sbonldere. I had vesg little appetite, and what little I could eat only dlrtressedme. I consulted physiciana, who said my eondltion was a very bad one, and gave me five different cough syrups and tonics, from which I received no beneflt. but eeemed to grow woroe, and kept losing floeh and strength. I had night sweats, and sweat most of the dnrtng tha day. I coughed and raised blood and a salt, foamy phlegm; my throat waa filled with uloon, I could hardly swallow; sometimes I could not speak * loud word for weeks; my lungs grow more painful svurp day with difficult breathing, while pleurisy pains would alpwst stop my breath. I had colic pains, sour stomach and vomiting up everything I ate. My whole body waa filled with pain. J could not lie down, but had to reclino in a sitting posture to breathe. I gave up and did not think of ever getting up again, as it was hard movhik myself: my feet and ankles began te swell badly, and mg hips had given out long before. In thia sinking condition I thought I would try year romedy for consumption; it might do ms some good; it eould do me no harm, for I was certain I could not live a month longer the way I w«At that time—May, 1878—1 procured your Pulmonis Syrup. Seaweed Tonic and Pills, and took them as directed. In a week I waa better, and began to throw off from the lungs a greenish-yellow matter streaked with blood. I could cat a little without throwing it up, the pains in my sides were not so severe, I could e’eep an hour very soundly, and that was wbst I had not dons for three ■ton ths. I took your medicines steadily six months, my cough got bettor, I did not sweat so bad at nights, kept gaining alowly.and tn a year after I began your medicines I could say I felt well. I began to gain flesh, and last Septamber weighed one hundred and thirty-fire pounds, fifteen pounds more than I over weighed before in my life. Your medicines, I know, saved mylifs; and I would say, from my own experience, to all consumptives, taka Dr. Schenck’s medicines, for they will certainly cure you. I bad Onsumptlon; it is hereditary in our family, my father and two brothers having died of it. I have had better health the past winter than for ten rears previous. Yours respectfully, MRS. SARAH A. CARTBR. Carlisle, Mass., April sth, 1830. From Mr. Peter Christopher, of Pawnee, 111. Dr. J. H. Schenck 4 Son, Philadelphia: Gentlemen—ls you will excuse tbs liberty, I would like to state to you how your medicines have cured me of what seemed a fat il case of Consumption. Three years ago I was taken sick, and waa told by my physicians—who were many and from all parts—that I could not live three months. I took, besides a I their prescriptiona, at least seventy-five bottles of Oed-Liver Oil. At last, after everyihing else had proven fruitless, I wrote to you to send ms ton bottles of your msdiolns; to which you replied, advising me, for the sake of economy, to get it of the nearest druggist, which I did ; and, ■after having taken two bojtlM, my cough, which had been very violent, became easier; my ft lands, who bad been dea|>ondent, became encouraged, as I was, and I continued taking the medicine. I had coughed up immense quantities of blood and was very much reduced, weighing loss than one hundred pounds To-day I am well and hearty: my weight has increased to one hundred and eighty pounds. It is, without doubt, to your medicines that I owe my 11 e. I have no hesitation in declarina that they possess all the qualities you claim for them, and more too. lam still using them in my family as s preventive, for I have had no sickness for s lung time. Yours respectfully, PETER CHRIMTOPHER. PAWNKX, IIL, June 12,1875. DR. J. H. Schenck, Philadelohia, Pa.: Dear Sir—Seeing one of yonr sgenta distributing your books in this village a few days ago, has reminded ms of the past, and has made me feel that I ought to asknowledge with gntitude ths benefit I once received from your medicines. I was a soldier in the army from 1882 to 1865, and when mustered out was in a crippled state, having bad, during my service, scurvy and camp fever, which, with the malaria of the swamps in which much of our operations were carried on, left me diseased all over. I was soon attacked with chronic diarrhea and a constant, hacking cough. My whois nervous system waawompletely prostrated. I was apparently fast approaching tbs grave. In looking over the newspapers to find something advertised that would do me good, I found the advertisement of your medicines. Though I had but littls faith, I bought the Syrup and Tonic, and commenced their use. I soon found that what you said of your medicines waa true, for they worked an entire revolution in my system —my cough gradually grew less, until it disappeared altogether, as did also my diarrhea and other alarming symptoms, and I was entirely cured. I shall always hold in grateful remembrance two things—the “Cooper-Shop” Free-Refreshment Saloon for Soldiers, of Philadelphia, and Dr. Ehenok’s Medicines, of Philadelphia. I believe the roedicfnos saVed my life, as I have stated. Pardon the late acknowledgment of the great benefit I have received from you. Your obedient servant, JOBE 8. STEVENS, 16th Regiment Maine Volunteers, Auny of the Potomac. Present" Residence—Orange, Franklin Co., Mass. MAT 28th, 1881.

DR. SCHENCK’S MANDRAKE PILLS! Do not produce sickness at the stomach, nausea ee griping. <)n. the contrary, they are so mild and agree able in their action thaf a person suffering with a sick headache, sour stomach or pain in tho bowels to speedily relieved of these distressing symptoms. They act directly on the liver, the organ wftich, when in a healthy condition, purifies the blood for the whole body. They are a perfect preparation of that, great and wellknown remedy. Mandrake or Pedopbyllln, a remedy that has displaced the use of mercury, as well as many other polsonous drugs, in the practice of every intelligent physician. Prof. John King, of the College of Medicine, of Cincinnati, says: “In Constipation it acts upon tho bowels without disposing them to subsequent ooeUveneaa. In Chronic Liver Complaint there la not its equal in tho whole range of medicines, being vastly more useful than mercurial agents, arousing the liver to healthy action. Increasing the flow of bile, and keeping i«p these actions longer than any other agent with which we are acquainted.” (See American Dispensatory, page 7JU.) In all cases of Liver Complaint or Dyspepsia, when there is a great weakness or debility. Dr. Mchenck’e Seaweed Tonic should bo used In connection with those Pills. DR. SCHENCK’S MEDICINES: MANDRAKE PILLS, SEAWEED TONIC, < I PULMONIC SYRUP Are sold by all Druggists, and full directions for their use are printed on the wrappers of every package. The BesfFiefd yon. EMIGRANTS. AN IMMENSE AREA OF RAILROAD AND GOVERNMENT LAN DM, OF GREAT FERTILITY. WITfIIN'EABY REACH OF FERMANENT MARKET, AT EXTREMELY LOW PRICES, la now oflared for aale la EASTERN OREGON and EASTERN WASH* ING TON TERRITORY. GRAIN AT PORTLAND. OREGON, COMMANDS A PRICE EQUAL TO THAT OEVAINED IN CHICAGO. The early oomplstion of the Northern Pneifio It. B. is now assured, and guarantses to settlers cheap and quiek transportation and good markets both Past and West. Tho opening of this new overland line to the Paciflc, together with the construction of the network of 700 miles of railroad by the O. A E N. Cq. in the valleys of tile great Columbia emd its principal tributaries, renders e< rtain d rapid increase in the value of the lands now open to purchase and pre—mption. There is every indication of an enormous movement of population to the Columbia Stiver region in the immediate future. LANDS SHOW an AVERAGE YIELD wf «O BUSHELS OF WHEAT PER ACEB. Nw Failure wf Crops evay knows. LANDBdiFered at tke uniform "climate mild and healthy. For pamphlet and asps, descriptive of Katry. He reeenn*es, ellmate, route or vol, rateo and fnll Information, nddreoa A. L. STOKES, Qob’l Eastern Paso’r Agent, IkAfea MW, Brewa, Maa. Bvwm <t sll IwMmlsm, MMSHSaSa