Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 December 1882 — Page 4

' •" * - CHRISTMAS. , BY SUSAN COOLIDGN. How did they keep Dis birthday then, ; he little fair Christ, so long ago? O, ma*y there were to be housed and fed, ■ And th re was no place in the inn, they said, > o into' the manger the Christ must go. To lodge with the cattle and not with men. The ox and the a u s they munched their hay, They munched and they slumbered,wondering not, /nd out in the midnight cold and blue '1 he shepherds slept, and the sheep slept too, - Till the angels’ song and the bright star ray Guided the wise men to the spot. Put only the wise men knelt and praised, , And only the shepherds came to see, And the rest of the world cared not at all • For the little Christ in the oxen’s stall; And we are angry and amazed. That such a dull, hard thing should bel How do we keep His birthday now? ■ W ring the bells and we raise the strain, We hang up garlands everywhere And bld the tapers twinkle fair, A nd feast and frolic—and then we go Back to the same old lives again. Are we so bet*o-, then, than they Who failed the new-born Christ to see? To them a helpless babe —to us He shines a HaviO' glorious, Our J ord, our ■ riend, our All—yet we Are half asleep this Christmas day.

A COMMONPLACE CHRISTMAS STORY.

BY ROBERT J. BURDETTE.

It was not a very cheerful apartment in which Wihfon McWhyrter opened his eyes Christmas morning. His real name was Wilson McWhyrter, but his business name was “Gubbs.” Nobody know why everybo !y called h'm * Gubbs, * but nobody also knew why he was originally called Wilson Mc- ' Whyrter neither, so that made it even. On this Cbristmis morning he was exactly almost 13 years old. I don’t remember just how almost, but it was almost; as the “Tourists” say, not too almost, but just almost enough. He was not rich, Wil-on wasn’t. He wore on this sharp, biting, Christmas morning the same clothes he bought, last June. He bought them at a rag warehouse when the warehouse man was not ingWilson was not a boy who was particular about settling his bills, and society accordingly put i.im in the cold and silent jug two or three times for this little eccentricity. If he had been older, and wiser, and richer, he might have gone through life, paying 30 centi ■Where be owed 100. and went on building more houses and buying new furniture, and been inspected and esteemed. But he was too > oor and didn’t know enough for that. So he did all his mercantile busin ss. in the old-fashioned way. and got very little credit for it, On one occasion he got ten days, but that was the first time, and it did .’t count. He re olved that it should never happen so And it never did. The next time it was twenty days, and he never afterward fell below that high standard. Wilson was born at an early period es his life, of poor but honest parents. They weren’t very honest, but they were most awfully poor, so that made a good average. Wilson didn’t remember much about them. His mother went - away with a pircus and never had time to come back, and his father raised the deserted boy on the bottle. Occasionally, as the child grew older, he raised him on the toe of his boot. Wilson never went to school but once, and then it was to the Reform School, and he ran away two days before his time was out. He never went to Sunday-school, and if he ever knew any good thing, he had forgotten it long ago. And if there was anything bad that he didn’t know, he was going to learn it before he went to bed if he had to sit up all night. A hopeful, a very .hopeful subject for' a Christmas gift, Wilson was. When he rolled out of his miserable bed Christmas morning, he didn’t look for anything in his stocking. In lac’, he didn’t look for his stocking, became he had none. Not a solitary stocking, no more than if he had worn peg legs. In fact the peg-leggedest man that ever stamped around the streets with a curb-, stone orchestra of the circu'ar pattern, never ignored stockings more completely than this thriftless boy. Nor did he look for his father. He had a father; one father. And that was just one more than he had stockings. Most men with two feet have at 1 a-t one more slocking than they hive fathers, but Wilson McWhyrter was an exception to this rule. He did not look for his father, because he know th it his father did not require to be looked after. He was too well looked after already, that was the trouble with him. He was in the work-house, which is so called because nobody stays there and goes there except people who cannot n d will no work. And Wilson McWhyrter’s father belonged to that church. He was a member in good standing and full fellowship. As he lift the wretched tenement which' was his home, there was nothing attr.ic ive about this boy. His face was ns freckled as his clothes were ragged, and his mouth was as much too large as his eyes were too small. The only expression that shone out of his eyes was cunning; the cunning of the wolf rather than the fox; cunning that was mingled with ferocity. He hated society and law, for society and law had never paid anv atte tion to him except to cuff him; to kick him ; to starve him into rags and ugliness and then avoid him for being ragged and ugly; to starve him into theft an I then loci him up in prison for stealing. At this very moment he Wanted something to eat. His supper he h id lifted, with more manual dexterity than moral rectitude, from an apple stall and lunch counter. His. breakfast was yet an unsolved problem. If you could have read the boy’s mind you would have seen him thinking: •I must nag a wipe.” A Christian man, of liberal education and broad culture, would steal a handkerchief. Wilson McWhyrter, being an ignorant, darkened child of poverty, “nag a wipe.” To get his hand in, as he went along, he stole two newspapers from doorsteps. hooked a tin pail that had been set out for the milkman, broke a window, kicked a dog, and slapped a boy and took his comforter from areund his neoh. Just about the same time, or if it wasn’t exactly the same time it was a time so nearly like it that you couldn’t have told one from the other, that Wilson McWhyrter left his wretched den, old Mr. Bartholomew left his beautiful go down to his office. It was dirjstmas day, but old Mr. Bartholomew didn’t care for that. Like Wilson McWhyrter, he wanted his breakfast, but his appetite was much larger than the lad’s. He wanted to eat a farm out in lowa. And he was going.down to his office to get his breakfast. He was going to lend an lowa farmer S9OO on a $3,000 farm, and charge him S4O for lending it |o him, and SBO a year for keeping it lent, and then at the end of five years he would take the farm and rent it to the farmer for all that could be raised on it. But he had a tender spot in his heart. It wasn’t large onou -h so di-figure his heart. It was about the size of the upper half of a semi colon; but such as it was he was proud of it. He was a widower, andjie ha I only one relative in the world, a sister, who married a poor man against hi i wishes, Mr. Bartholomew’s wishes, that is, aid'went away ye.-rs ago. M-. Bartholomew was. thinking of this sister as he walked Along. His face wore a troubled look,

and somehow his prospective breakfast of the lowa farm didn’t taste good to him. He tried to drive this sister out of his thoughts, but she would-come back. Fifteen years Bgo she married a man Mr. Bartholomew hated, because he was so poor he hadn’t anything to borrow a dollar on. Fifteen years ago, Mr. Bartholomew, rich, proud, selfish, bad clouded his only sistes’s wedding day with his haughty anger. He remembered her pleading face. Where was she now? She had a son, she had once written him, and she had named it for him. Her husband he had heard was dissipated, and it wasn’t likely they had prospered. He tried to drive these thoughts away, but they steadily haunted him. Poor Eleanor, he thought. Then he made up his mind that he would make this a merry Christmas for somebody. He would make the day bright and full of sunshine and happiness for the first poor wretch he met. He would, for a few bright hours at least, lift the burden of poverty off some burdened heart; he would let the sunlight of his wealth stream into some povertv-darkened life. Little did this hard, stern, wealthy man know of the tangled web that fate was weaving for him in the troubled channel of his vague, half-formed wishes. It isn’t often that fate does weave a web in a troubled channel, because a troubled channel isn’t just exactly the place to stand a loom in, but when she does, you wafit to stand from under. Unless you are web-footed. , Mr. Wilson W. Bartholomew did not hear the stealthy tread of Wilson MbWhvrtyr as the lad came sneaking along b. side him. He was too deeply engrossed in his project for devouring the lowa farm, for making somebody happy, and in thinking about his sister, tp notice anything else. Presently he paused in front of a store window to look at a chromo of a young lady in a bathing suit, whose stockings vrere-so short that she had to wear a lace collar to supply the deficit. While enjoying this beautiful fit of chromatic art, Mr. Bartholomew felt a tug oii his pocket, and, turning suddenly, caught Wilson McWhyrtor just taking out the broker’s watch to see what time it would be at that time next Christmas. It was the work of the same minute to fondle the frightened boy once or twice with his cane and call a polieman. While the officer was crossing the street, Mr. Bartholomew shook the boy until his ragged clothes nearly fell off him. When the policeman came, he collared the boy and shook out of him what little breath he had left. Then he shook him because he wouldn’t stand up straight and walk along. On their way to the magistrate’s office, Mr. Bartholomew stirred the boy up, from time to time, with his cane. Such people, he said, should never be allowed to walk on tlie streets. And then, as he looked at the boy’s pinched, hungry face, the thought of his sister came back to him somehow or other, and the old troubled look stole into his face. Then he would shake off the thought, and wonder where-he had seen that boy before. “Why did you try to steal this citizen’s watch?” asked the tender-hearted magistrate. “Because I was hungry,” said the culprit. “Oh, good land!” ejaculated the policeman, in overwhelmingly disgusted tones. “With the wheat crop in this country 40 per cent, larger than it was last year,” sneered the broker, in derisive incredulity. “As though you could eat a watch,” said the lender-hearted magistrate, and that settled it. “How old are you?” he went on. “Thirteen years,” said the boy. Mr^Brirtholomew started. Thirteen years? Somehow the troubled look came and went over the broker’s face like a passing cloud. Thirteen years ? Why he thought but just then he heard the voice of the tender-hearted mugi-trate once more. “What is your name? And don’t you lie about it or I’ll put you in a dark cell on bread and water for six months.” “Wilson McWhyrter,” s iid the prisoner. Mr. Bartholomew started to his feet. “Well, I am blowed,” he said, but he said no more. Again he heard the voice of the tender-hearted magistrate. “Thirty days, Wilson McWhyrter, and if you come up here again I’ll make it sixty and hard labor. Take him away. ” Mr. Bartholomew went down to his office and there he found a telegram awaiting him. He read it, and his worst fears were realized. His sister and her nine children and her convivial husband were coming to spend Christmas with him and stay four or five days, as they had done regularly every year for the past thirteen years. And the brother-in-law would drink his wine and get drunk in the dining room, and the children would romp in his parlors and tear through his conservatory and fight in his quiet library, and his sister would go through the house and find fault with things, and make the servants dissatisfied and try to discharge the housekeeper, and sigh and groan because things weren’t managed as they were when she was at home. And once more the old troubled look came into his face, as it usually came when he got to thinking about and dreading the regular annual irruption of h s brother-in-law’s family. Then he picked up a business letter, and learned that another broker, three doors farther down the street, had loaned the love farmer SBOO on the $3,000 farm. “By George,” Mr. Bartholomew groaned, “this starts out well; a cub of a tr.imp picks my pocket, that thief of n Grasper robs me of my customer, and here Bill Gormley and his brats arc coming to turn my house into a week of bedlam, on the 10-o’clock train.” And when his clerk half opened the gl ss door of his private office to say “Merry Christmas,” the enraged broker fired an oflice stool at him and b; oke S2B worth of embossed gla«s. And th.' old troubled look in his face kept on getting troubler and troubleder until train time.

The only person in America who has survived the operation of cutting apart two children who were congenitally attached, is G. W. Lytle, Connellsville, Pa. He bears apon his left cheek a deep scar where the ligature had been cut. Twenty-four years ago the operation was performed by the elder Dr. Pancoast, in Philadelphia. It was considered a bold feat of surgery, and many physicians shook their heads with fear lest the attempt would result fatally to the patient. Lytle was then but seven months old. He was born with a a hideous appendage to the left cheek that resembled an imperfectly developed infant. There was a circulation of blood through the ligature into the malformation, which also had a heart. The success of the operation attracted universal attention, and photographs of •the malformation were sent abroad at the request of eminent siu'geons. The operation has been successfully performed only three times, once each in Paris, London and Philadelphia.

R. Breckinridge, of Rosenburg, Ore. has been seriously ill, caused by opening the vault of a deceased person. He was in such a position that the gases from the coffin struck him in the face. Shortly after he was taken with a fever that for a time baffled the skill of the attending physicians, but he was at last accounts likely to recover,

THE VIRTUES OF COFFEE.

Its Exhilarating Effects Upon the System and Benefits in a Medicinal Way. • It is getting to be the fashion now for people to say that coffee is injurious to health and many persons are giving it up regretfully. Perhaps coffee is very injurious in some cases, but of all beverages it is contended that is the least injurious. Coffee-drinkers are generally cheerful, strong and persevering. The eminent Dr. Boek, of Leipsic, says: “The nervousness and peevishness of the times are chiefly attributable to tea and coffee." He says that “the digestive organs of confirmed coffee-drinkers are in a state of chronic derangement, which reacts on the brain, produces fretful and lachrymose moods.” “I cannot agree," says Dr. Henry Segur, of Paris, “that the nervousness and peevishness of the present times are to be attributed to the use of coffee. If people are more nervous or in worse humor than formerly, we may find other causes arising from the customs and habits of society much more likely to produce such a state of things than .the use of this particular article of diet.” Let us examine the effects of coffee on the economy. Taken in moderation it is a mental and bodily stimulant of a most agreeable nature, and, followed by no harmful reaction, it produces contentment of mind, allays hunger and bodily weakness, increases the incentive and capacity for work, makes man forget his misfortunes, and enables those who use it to remain a long time without food or sleep, to endure unusual fatigue and preserve their cheerfulness and contentment. Jomand says: “An infusion made with ten ounces of coffee enables me to live without other food for five consecutive days without lessening my ordinary occupations and to use more afid more prolonged muscular exercise than I was accustomed to without any other physical injury than a slight degree of fatigue and a little loss of flesh.” . • The mental exhilaration, physical activity and wakefulness it causes explains the fondness for it which has been shown by so many men of science, poets, scholars and others devoted to thinking. It has, indeed, been called the intellectual beverage. It supported the old age of Voltaire and enabled Fontenelle -toopass his hundred years. The action of coffee is directed chiefly to the nervous system. It produces a warming, cordial impression on the stomach, quickly followed by a diffused agreeably and nervous excitement, which extends itself to the cerebral functions, giving rise to increased vigor of imagination and intellect, without any subsequent confusion or Stupor, such are characteristic of narcotics. Coffee contains essential principles of nutrition far exceeding in importance its exhilarating properties and is one of the most desirous articles for sustaining the system in certain prostrating diseases. As compared with the nutrition to be derived from the best of soups, coffee has decidedly the advantage, and is to b j preferred in many instances. The medicinal effects of coffee are very great. In intermittent fever it has been used by eminent physicians, with the happiest effect, in cutting short the attack, and if properly managed is better in many cases than the sulphate of quinine. In that low state of intermittent, as found on the banks of the Mississippi river and other malarial districts, accompanied with enlarged spleen and torpid liver, when judidiously administered it is one of the surest remedies. In yellow fever it has been used by physicians, and with some it ls their main reliance after other necessary remedies have been administered; it retains tissue change, and thus becomes a conservator of force in that state in which the nervous system tends to collapse, because the blood has become impure; it sustains the nervous power until the duration and reorganizatien of the blood are accomplished, and lias the advantage over other stimulants in inducing no injurious secondary effects. In spasmodic asthma its utility is well established, as in whooping cough, stupor, lethargy and such troubles. In hysterical attacks, for which in many cases a physician can form no diagnosis, coffee is a great help. Coffee is opposed to malaria, to all noxious ..vapors. As a disinfectant it has wonderful powers. As an instantaneous deodorizer it has no equal for the sick room, as all exhalations are immediately neutralized by simply passing a chafing-dish with burning coffee grains through the room. It may be urged that an article possessing such powers and capacity for such energetic action must be injurious as an article of diet of habitual employment, and not without deleterious properties; but no corresponding nervous derangements have been observed after its effects had disappeared, as are seen in narcotics and other stimulants. The action imparted to the nerves is natural and healthy. Habitual coffee drinkers generally enjoy’good health. Some of the oldest people have used coffee from earliest infancy without feeling any depressing reaction, such as is produced by alcoholic stimulants.

The Emperor of Brazil.

The Emperor’s equipage and retinue are not very imposing. He is a plain man and does not care for splendor. Moreover, the country is as yet undeveloped and the government poor; consequently, it cannot afford much show. His majesty rides in an ordinary black coach, which, in point of style, would scarcely compare favorably with a street hack in an American city. The vehicle is drawn by six mules, and is followed by twelve cavalry soldiers, mostly negroes, and some of them smoking cigars. The cavalrymen are as poor specimens of soldiers as the coach is of vehicles. The coachman wears some poor silver lace on his hat and coat-cuffs, and the footmen are equally poorly attired. Amidst these signs of poverty and mock-splendor, which attest either the weakness of his government or the parsimony of his parliament, one is irresistibly compelled to respect the mildness, wisdom and benignity of the Emperor. He wears the plainest of black clothes, bow s in return to all who bow to him, and even lifts his stove-pipe hat off when some gentleman approaches him with the like mark of politeness. He looks much older than when he visited our country six years ago. I fancy he has a dejected look, as though, after trying in vain to bring his people to a sense of their backwardness, as compared with the more progressive nations which he had visited fti North America and Europe, he had given up all hope of success. But this country was originally colonized in a peculiar way. It was a mistake of Portugal to believe that Brazil would be settled all the more rapidly if it was parceled out into great estates ffazendas); and consequently all political powder fell,centuries ago, into the hands of the fazendeiros; and there it remains still. Holding this power they refuse to permit the imposition of land taxes and cause the revenues to be extorted from the various incidents of commercial activity, which are thus stifled in their birth. By the stifling of these incidents all progress is retarded.— San Francisco 'Chronicle.

Earning a Livelihood.

“You are a brute, and if the law allowed me to do so I would have fortv lashes rut on your bare back. You not only refuse to provide for your family, but yon beat your w fe b?s : de,” was the language used by an Austin Justice to a burly negro. “Boss, you has g > dis heah case mightily mix< d up in yer

head. I owns up to beatin’s my wife, but I does it outen pure kindness.” “A strange sort of kindness, indeed.” “Yer see, Jedge, es I didn’t beat her and make her howl like de mischief de kindhearted neighbors would stop bringing her good things ter eat and gibben her clothes and de like. Data de way I pervides for my family, Jedge.” — Texas Siftings.

A Little About Hammers.

To most persons a hammer is simply a hammer, but every mechanic knows that there is a great variety of hammers, from the tiny lump of steel with which the watchmaker taps the mandril of a balance-wheel to the huge trip-hammer under which tons of hot i»n are moulded into shape. The hammer, in fact, plays an important part in the mechanic arts, each one presenting its peculiar form, size, weight and material. In some trades there is great skill and dexterity required in the use of the hammer. Any one who has seen the operation of riviting a boiler has admired the slight of hand with which the strikers wound up the head of a rivet in less time than it takes to write about it. The blows follow one another with wonderful accuracy and rapidity, and when the rivit head is finished it looks as smooth and regular as if it had been cast in a burnished mold. Take even the process of driving an ordinary nail and it is remarkable what a difference there is in the method of a novice and that of a carpenter. The one hits one side, often bends or breaks the nail or bruises the finger that holds it. The carpenter hits with precision and drives the nail home with welldirected blows. The deft hammering of the coppersmith is proverbial, pounding metal into any required shape. The copper plates that are used by engravers are hammered hard in long strips by the uso of large steel hammers with faces as smooth as that of a mirror. The most accurate hitting is required in this process, because the hammer face is flat and must be held perfectly level to avoid cutting deep gashes in .the plates. When it is necessary to make bevels on these plates, a skilled workman will make a bevel with a hammer in a few minutes that would require hours if made by filing and polishing. Silversmiths learn to be very expert in the use of the hammer. Spectaclemakers can take the temples of a pair of ladies’ spectacles and temper them by a dexterous planishing between hammer and anvil. A blacksmith always has an assortment of hammers with which to shape the ductile iron. File-cutters are required to use hammers with great judgment. Each tooth in a hand-made file is made by the burr raised by tapping a sharp chisel held to the soft file. After ?ach blow the chisel is set up against the burr of the last stroke and another burr is raised, and so on untill the file is finished. The force of the blow measures the size of the burr raised, so that the reglarity of the file depends upon the evenness of the hammer stroke. Many files are made by transferring processes by machinery, but the handmade files command the highest price, while with many peculiar forms of files the hand work is indispensable and the regularity of hammer work is a necessity. One of the most difficult jobs to be done with a hammer is to straighten large flat plates of metal. An expert workman will here do, with a few strokes of the hammer, properly directed, work that a non-expert cannot do at all. Indeed, without great skill, the attempt to straighten plates with a hammer generally results in making the crookedness worse. The gold beater’s hammer is wielded day by bay by the trained hand, although an hour of it woul’ fatigue the novice. The calker has a peculiar long hammer. The ax and the adze are but sharpened hammers. Machinists use great copper hammers for work where they wish to strike blows without marring the object struck.— New York Sun.

How the Bey of Tunis Lives.

The palaces of the Bey are splendid and incongruous; the Bardo, an hour from the capital, is a fine sample of Oriental architecture and decoration, spoiled by Parisian upholstery and vulgar European carpets. Dar-el-Bey, his only town residence, is magnificent and neglected; his real abode is in a separate building, walled, and standing in a garden, near the Bardo. He goes to the Bardo once a week, to sit in judgment on his subjects and receive the Ambassadors and Consuls of the Great Powers; and then there is a brief stir, and the Court presents a stately picture. “It is, however, only an external brilliancy, and it cannot deceive the visitor as to the misery reigning within the Moorish Empire.” Mahomed Es Sadock Pacha Bey is an amiable enough Prince, by all accounts; fond of children, but childless, and very simple in his habits. He has only one wife, and though he pays her a formal visit of an hour’s duration at her castle every day, he. rarely sees her, as the hour of his visit is generally one appointed for devotion, and on his arrival he goes to a small room in the palace to pray. He is supposed to know nothing of the management of his possessions; before him all is desolate ruin. Whichever of his palaces he shall die in will be dismantled and left to decay, for a Bey must not live in a palace in which a predecessor has died. “None of them has had himself transported into the street on death approaching, and there are more than a dozen palaces in Tunis to-day which cannot be used by the Beys. A melancholy example of this absurd custom is Mahomedia, once the magnificent residence of Achmet Bey, who had it built thirty-five years ago at a cost of 10,000,000 francs. This palace, with its secondary buildings and villas for ministers and dignitaries, was situated two miles out of town; and when Achmet Bey died, the furniture was moved, the floors, glazed tiles, doors and windows were broken out and dragged to another palace. The heavy marble columns, statues, the curbs of the wells, etc., remained behind with the walls, and he who passes those imposing ruins to-day might think thousands of years had passed over them. The hand of the Arab destroys thus in our day in the midst of peace, as his ancestors and the Vandals did centuries ago, only in time of war. So much for Oriental culture I—London Spectator.

A large audience was gathered, a few days ago, in Huntington hall, Lowell, Massachusetts, by the unusual announcement that General B. F. Butler was to address a gospel meeting, to bo held there. They were disappointed, however, for he failed to put in an appearance. Litchfield Cathedral stands 287 feet above the level of the sea, on higher grmind than any other English cathedra]. Its spires, known as “the ladies of the vale,” are landmarks over a wide district. Peterborough stands on the lowest ground, thirty-one feet above the sea level. Judge Allen < f the Supreme Court of Boston, has decided that any person may, and every police officer must, kill or cause to be killed any dog running at large in the Ipghway without a collar at any ' time, even though it bo licensed. The secrets of life ure not shown except to sympathy and likeness,

An Odd Little Industry.

Just at this time the essence of Wintergreen is very high— as high as $3 a pound. The oil of Wintergreen comes cluefly from New York State, and from Pennsylvania, where the wintergreen vine and the birch trees grow in abundance. The makers of Wintergreen essence are under the surveillance of the government. The oil is made from Wintergreen when wintergreen is abundant. If it is not plenty, birch is used. The plant of the oil-maker consists of a furnace made of rough stones, a boiler, a tin pipe, a trough, a barrel, and a running brook. The tin pipe leads from the top of the boiler through the water in the trough to a barrel. Under the end of the pipe is placed a barrel, and on the end of the pipe in the barrel is hung a glass jar. The boiler is filled with water and birch bark and wintergreen twigs. A fire is built, the steam is forced through the pipe, and is condensed by the pipes passing through the water in the trough. The oil of wintergreen and the water fall into the glass jar, but the oil being heavier than the water, goes to the bottom of the jar, while the water runs over into the barrel and is used again. The business is carried on in ■ certain seasons, both day and night, as the pot must be kept boiling. The meu who work at this business make their homes during the season in the forest or field wherever the birch or wintergreen is to be found. They enjoy an all-season picnic, unless the revenue collector “drops down” upon them, as he does upon many, and collects $36 for every still-liko apparatus he finds. It is supposed that some of the rude affairs for condensing, which the government calls stills, are so concealed in the forest that the collector does not find them. The manufacturers dispose of it (the oil) to apothecaries for about $2 per pound, who, after diluting with alcohol, sell it to confectioners and others at the usual apothecaries’ profit.— Providence Journal. A country preacher was exhorting bis unbelievers, and his text was “The Flood.” As he waxed eloquent, he said: “And Noah warned the wicked that they might repent, but they heeded him not.; and the floods came and drowned them all, and what do you fftippose they thought then ?” A little lady of years had picked up a cane in the corner of the room and was playing with it—a plain stick bent at the end. Papa asked", “What are you doing with the cane?” “It isn’t a cane.” “What is it, then?” “It’s an umbrella without any clothes on it.”

Perfect Manhood.

Many young and middle-aged men suffer from an exhaustive drain that weakens every organic function, and is hurtful, to both ftiind and bodv, ending often in extreme nervous debility. To counteract this evil influence and to strengthen the organs affected, use Dr. Guysott’s Yellow Dock and Sarsaparilla. It hascured thousands.

Imitation Worm-Holes.

The manufacturers of bogus antiquities i esort to the most extraordinary devices to give to their productions the appearance of age. One of them, finding that the holes which he bored into the wood of the furniture he had made, in order to give it a worm-eaten appearance, could be detected by a naturalist who had made a study of the habits of the furniture worm, invented an instru ment that reproduced the worm-hole in the exact manner that the insect would h .ve made it.— San Francisco Chronicle.

The Conductor.

Winona, Minn., Nov. 29,1879. I had been -suffering with a severe cold for several days; was so nqarse I could not speak above a whisper. Nov. 16 I met one or Dr. Warner’s agents on my train; he handed me a bottle of White Wine of Tar Syrup; one hour after taking the first dose my hoarseness commenced to leave me. In twentyfour hours my voice was quite clear and natural, and the cold nearly cured. It is the best remedy I ever saw. Respectfully, C. W. Warren, Conductor, Chicago and Northwestern R. R. “Why do you hide, Johnny?” said one boy to another* “I hide to save my hide,” replied the-dther, as he hied away to a secure spot

A New Principle.

The principle upon which Putnam’s Painless Corn Extractor acts is entirely new. It does not sink deep into the flesh, thereby producing soreness, but acts directly upon the external covering of the corn, separates it from the under layer, removes the direct pressure from the part, and at once effects a radical cure, without any pain or discomfort. Let those who are suffering from corns, yet skeptical of treatment, try it, and by the completeness of the cure they will be ready to recommend Putnam’s Painless Com Extractor to others. Wholesale, Lord, Stoutenburgh & Co., Chicago. Boses bloom in summer only, but a large majority of the American noses bloom all the year round.

Personal !—To Men Only!

The Voltaic Belt Co., Marshall, Mich., win Bend Dr. Dye’s Celebrated Electro-Voltaic Belts and Electric Appliances on trial for thirty days to men (young or old) who are afflicted with nervous debility, lost vitality and kindred troubles, guaranteeing speedy and complete restoration of health ana manly vigor. Address as above. N. B.—No risk is incurred, as thirty days’ trial is allowed.

Sleep knits up the raveled sleeve of care, but she lets the worn out seat of poverty’ pants take care of ifself.

A Leap Into Popular Favor.

It is not always that the world acknowledges what is right and best; but Bubdock Blood Bitters, by universal acquiescence, have been awarded the premium for cleansing the blood, curing indigestion, constipation, regulating the bowels, and toning up weak nerves. Price sl. What talisman can equal the penetration of a woman who has an interest in discovery? .Mme. de Girardin.

An Old Friend.

He was afflicted with a weak back and general debility; he was recommended Thomas’ Eclectric Oil, which cured him at ouce. This famous specific is a positive remedy for bodily pain. • A Burlington man o&lls his wife Keely, because she’s given motor promise than performance.

A Fact Worth Remembering.

A severe cold or cough can be soonest cured by taking, according to directions; Allen’s Lung Balsam. It can be procured at anv djrug store. It is harmless to the most delicate person, and can be given to children without fear of injury. Try- it if you have a cold or cough. Muztjn’ makes a dog safe, while it makes a v oung lady dangerous—still, in hot weather they both want innzlin’.

Soldiers Charged with Desertion.

This charge can be removed upon proper application; after which the Pay and Bounty which was due at time of muster out can be readily collected. Address, -with stamps, Stoddart A Co., Claim Attorneys, 413 G street, N. W., Washington, D. C. Tot’s last: “Mamma, you mnsn’t tall me a lamb, tause I ain t a sheep’s baby; I’m papa's baby!” (Skinny Men. “Wells’Health Renewer” restores health, cures dyspepsia, Impotence. sl. Wells’ “Rough on Corns." 15c. Ask for it Complete cure. Corns, warts, bunions. If you get the best of whisky, whisky wil get the best of you. Diphtheria poisons the blood Convalescents should take Hood’s Saraparilla to neutralize and eradicate the poison matter. Bismarck is said to look like a dollar store when he gets all his decorations on. The Frazer Axle Grease is better and cheaper than any other, at double the price. Ask your dealer for it, and take no other. Camoline, a natural hair restorer and dressing, os now improved and perfected is pronounced by competent authority to be the best article ever invented to restore the vitality of youth to diseased and faded hair. Try it Sold by all druggists. Hundreds of young men get their introduction to business through H. B. Brjaait’e Chicago Business College. The best and cheapest Car Starter i«.sold by Borden, Selleck A Co., Chicago, 111. With it one man can move a loaded cor. Tby the new brand, Spring Tpbooo*

Mensman’s Peptonized Beef Tonio, the only preparation 6* hoes containing its entire nutritious propurtliSl It contains bloodmaking, force -generating and life-sustaining properties; invaluable for in ttapsetion, dyspepsia, nervous prostration, and jil forms of general debility;* also, in all enfeeblbd conditions, whether the result W exhaustion, nervous prostration, over-wort, or acute disease, particularly if resulting from pulmonary complaints. Caswell, Hazard A Co., proprietors, New York. Sold by druggists. One pair of boots saved every year by using Lyon's Patent Metallic Heel Stiffeners.

HOOD'S SARSAPARILLA

Hm met vaooeM at home never accorded to any other proprietary medicine. It has suoceaafully combated the strongest competition, and by its superior merit to-day command, the largest sale and the greatest oonAdence wherever it has been introduced. The remarkable result, m a disease so universal and with such a variety of characteristics as catarrh, prove how effectually Hood’s Sarsaparilla, acting through the Wood, reach every part of the human system. •Jam under great obligations to you for the benefit I have received by taking only three bottles of your valuable Sarsaparilla. Having been a sufferer from catarrh for six or eight years, and having trio i nearly all the wonderful cures, sure cures, inhalers, etc., and spending nearly a hundred dollars without benefit, I acddentally tried Hood’s Sarsaparilla; the discharge from my nose was greatly increased the first bottle I took, then it gradually became less, and in taking lees than three bottle. I find myself so greatly improved that I write to let you know the fa ts. I think one or two bottles more will make a cure that I would gladly have given a hundred do.lare for. Let the sufferers of New England know that Hood’s Sarsaparilla will cure catarrh.”—M. A. Abbey, Worcester, Mass. HOOD’S SARSAPARILLA. Sold by Druggists, fit; six for 85. Made only by C. I. HOOD A CO., Apothecaries, Lowell. Mare.

How to Shorten Life.

The receipt is simple Yon have only to take a violent cold and neglect it. Abernethy, the great English surgeon, asked a lady who told him she only had a cough, "What would you have ’ The plague ?" Beware of -only coughs.” The worst cases can, however, be cured by Dr. Wm. Hall’s Balaam for tiM Lungs In Whooping Cough and Croup it immediately allays irritation, and is sure to prevent a fatal termination of the disease. Bold by all druggists and dealers in medicine. Dr. Roger’s Vegetab’e Wot in Syrup Is one of the most pie isant or palatable preparations for worms we have ever known. It is thoroughly efficacious, and never requires any other medicine to carry it off after using it.

Uhl D Send postal for IH’at’d Catalog. HULL’S rt AI IT Hair Store, 38 A4O Monros. Chicago. Cures Rheumatism, Lumbago, Lame Back, Sprains and Bruises, Asthma, Catarrh, Coughs, Colds, Sore Throat, Diphtheria, Bums, Frost Bites, Tooth, Ear, and Readache, and all pains and aches. Th. best Internal and external remedy la the world. Every bottle guaranteed. Sold by medicine dealers everywhere. Directions in eight languages. Price 50 cents and fi.oo. FOSTER, MILBURN & CO., Prop’rs, BUFFALO, N. Y., U. S. A.

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I QURE FITS’ When i say cure 1 do not mean merely to atop them lor Btime aud the a hare them return again, I:mean a iradical cure. 1 have made tho disease of FITS, EPILEPSY or FALLING SICKNESS a life long study. I warrant my remedy to cure the worst cases. Because others hare failed is no reason for not now receiving a cure. Send at Once for a treatise and a Free Bottle of my infallible temedy. Give Express and Post Office. It oe*te yon toothing tor a trial, and I will cure you. w . Address Dr. H. G. BOOT. 183 Pear! St, New I Pit* GS2S Every Day Can ba aaaily made with aur Well Augers & Drills One man and one hone required. Wn are the onlymakere of the Tiflln WellBoring ana Kook-Drilling Maohine. Warranted tho Beat on Barth! Many of our euetomere make from te a day* Book and Oiroulam 71LBB. Address. LOOMS 1 HUGO. TIFFU; OHIO.

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■ WE DRESS THIS CARD IN MOURNING, H Because there are to many thousand* es ear H :■ follow mortals suffering and dying who might ■■ bo cured by using Sti | “ Dr. Sykes’ Sure Cure for Catarrh.” I Ask druggists for it, or write to U UH. O. Fl. BYHLHB, I 168 MADISON ST., CHICABO, ILL, n For full Information, teaUmeulal*. eta., I s la Cut this out now, for this Card will H be of value to you. I jW Name this paper when writing. ■

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BALSAM [Thia engraving represents the Longa In a healthy state.] A 600 D FAMILY REMEDY I STRICTLY PURE. H*i*xxile*H to the Moat Delicate! By ite faithful uee CONSUMPTION haff been CURED when other remedies and Phyaiciana hare failed te effect a cure. William 0. Diggks, merchant of Bowling Oreen. Ta., writes April 4.1881. that he wants ns to know that the Lung Balsam hae cured hie mother of Consumption, after the physician had given her up as incurable. He Bays, others knowing her case have taken the Balsam and been cured; he thinks all so afflicted should give it a trial. , , . , . William A. Graham * Co., wholesale dniggista. Zanesville, Ohio, write us of the cure of Mathias Frrbman, a well-knowu citizen, who had lieen afflicted with Bronchitis ’in its worst form for twelve .year*. The Lung Balsam cured him, as it has many pthare, of Bronchitis. As an Expectorant It has No Equal. For Sale by all Medlciue Dealers. •u..,tMSp*<w allvar. L A.L.bMITUAAOJF^. PATENTS CAN I OBTAIN A PATENT?. Rend a rough sketch or (if you can) a modelI of your invention to GEORGE JK. LEMON, Washington, D. C.» and a Preliminary Kxaimnation will lie made of all United Btates patents of the same claim of inventions and yon will be advised whether or not a patent can be obtained. FOR THIS PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION NO CHARGE IN MADE. What will a Patent Ifyou are advised that your in venJ tion ißpatentable,*cnd»2O,to|>ay Government application fee of Sift, and sft for the drawings required by the Government. This la payable when application is made, aud la all of the exi>enae unions a {latent la allowed. When allowed, the attorney’s fee (S2ft) and tha final Government fee (S2O) ia payable. Thus you know be. jorehand,/ur nothing, whether you are going to get a patent or not, and no attorney’s fee is charged unless you do set a Patent. An attorney whose fee depends on nia success in obtaining a Patent will not advise you that your invention is i«tentable, unless it really is patentable, so far as his beat judgment can add In determining thn question: hence, you con rely on the advice given after a preliminary examination ia had. Design Patents and the Registration of Labels, Trade Murks and Re-lanues aocured. t'avente prepared and filed. Applications In revivor of Rejected, A bandoned,or Forfeited < Jases made, very often valuable inventions are saved in these classes of cases. If you have undertake* to secure your own patent and failed, a skillful handling of the case may lead to success. Send me a writtea request addreaaed to the Commissioner of Patent* that he recognize Gkorob E. Lbmoh. ot Washington, D. 0.. as your attorney in the case, iriviug the title of the invention and about the date of filing your application. An examination and rei>ort will cost you nothing. Hoarchea made for title to inventions, in fact any information relating to Patents promptly furnished. Copies of Patents mailed at the regular Government rates. (86p. each.) Remember this office ha. been In .uoceasf ul operation alnoe 1865, and you therefore reap the brut, efita of experience, besides reference can bo girep to actual clients in almost every county iu the U. 8, Pamphlet relating to Patents free upon reqnasK CEO. E. LEMON, 616 Iftth Nt., WASHINGTON, D. C. ▲ttorauy-nt-Law and Solicitor of American and Foreixn Patents.

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Consumption Can Be Cured.. S HALL’S Iu N6s .BALSAM Cures Consumption, Colds, Pneumonia. Inßnenza, Bro ncliialDifticiil ties. Bronchi tls.lloarsfc ness, Asthma, Croup, Whooping Oongh, anß all Diseases of the BrcathliiwOiwans. It soothes and heals tlie Membrane of the Lungs, InHamon and poisoned by the disease, and prevents ths night sweats and tightness across the chest which accompany it. Consumption 1* not aa incurable malady. HAI.L’H BALK AM will curs you, even though professional aid tails. GRAY’S SPECIFIC MEDICINE. TRADE MARK Th> Gkbat Bm-tRADE MAR* PUSH RKMXDT. An unfailing enr* > fcr Seminal Weak- I jgjit * nn*a, Hp«rmatorrhea. ImiM>t«ncy, and all Diaca*** Of that fnllaw aa a fKAXv aequeno* of Selfjß’Tlt A bnae ; a* Inaa of Memory Uuiver aal laa. tude.nain BEFIRETAIIM.»«*•»' »“on,Pr*-MTlf TAPES, mature Old Age, and many other dlaa.aaa that Had to Inaanlty er Oonaumptlon and a Premature Grsvs. WTF’ull particular* in *ur pamphlet, which w* d**iaw to aend free by mail to *v*ry *n*. BV' Iho ApeoiA* Medicin* 1* aold by all druggUu at 81 per paohsgo, as •ix paekag** for Bi, or will bs aent fro* by mil *n receipt of the money, by *ddr***ing THE CRAY MEDICINE CO., Birihlg, N. Y. ' On account of counterfeits, w* have adopted ths Tsl low Wrapper; th* only gsaulao. « C.N.C. »f wm VXTHEN WRITING TO ADVERTIMBRMa V V please say yon a»w the advortlsemeut tn this paper.