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lev rejoined; “why should they he buried alive? Let's get to them before they nre starved to death. We may save them yet.” "Why. you fool, they’ll denounce us!” “Whitt do I cure? f would save them both to-night if I was to stand in the dock to-morrow.” “And swing on the gallows next week, or end your days in a prison.” “I'd take niy’chances.” said Hartley, desperately. "I'll undo my crime if I can. No punishment can equal the agonv I am in now, thunks to you, you villain.” Then turning on him suddenly, find showing him the white of his eyes like a maniac, or a dangerous mastiff, he hissed out. “You think nothing of the lives of better men; perhaps you don't value your own?” “Oh! I beg your pardon.” said M< nekton. “That's’a very different thing.” “Oh, youdo value your own foul life?” “At any amount’ of money,” uaid M' nekton. “Then why do you risk it?” “Excuse me. governor, that's a thing I make a point of not doing, i risk my instruments; not my head. HenHurnley to wit.” “You are risking it now.” said Hartley . looking still more strangely at him. ■‘How so. pray?” said Monekton. getting a little uneasy, for this was not the Hartley he had known till then. Hartley took the poker in his hand and proceeded to poke the fire; but somehow he did not look at the tire. He looked askant at Monekton. and he showed the white of his eyes more and more. Monekton kept his eyes upon him. and put his hand upon the handle of the door. “I'll tell you,” said Hartley—“by coming here to tempt, provoke, and insult the wretch whose soul you destroyed, by forcing me to assassinate the best man amt the sweetest girl in England, when there were vipers and villains about whom it's a good action to sw» ep off (rod's earth. Villain! I'll teach you to come like u fool and madden a madman! I was only a rogue; you have made me a man of blood. All the worse for you. I have murdered f/era; I'll execute i/"''.'” find with these words he I bounded on him like a panther. Monekton tore the doors open and dashed out, but a furious blow fell before he was quite clear of the doorway. With such force was it delivered that the blunt metal rut into the edge of the floor like a sword; the jamb was smashed; and even Monekton. who received but one-fourth of the blow, fell upon his hands and knees into the hall, and was stunned for a moment, but fearing worse, staggered out of the hall door, which, luckily for him, was open, and darting into a little grove of shrubs, that was close by. grovelled there in silence, bleeding like a pig. and waiting for his chance to escape entirely; hut the quaking reptile ran no f urther risk. Hartley never followed him beyond his own room; he had been goaded into a maniacal impulse, and ho returned to his gloomy sullenness.

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Walter's declaration, made so suddenly before four persons, startled them greatly for a moment—but only for a moment. Julia was the tirst to speak. “We might have known it,” she said. “Mary Hartley is a young lady incapable of misconduct; she is prudence, virtue, delicacy, and purity in person; the man she was with at that place was sure to be her husband, and who should that be but Walter, whom she loved?” Then the servants looked anxiously at their master to see how lie took this startling revelation. Well, the Colonel stood (inn as if he was at the head of a column in the held. He was not the man to retreat from any position. He said, “All we have to do is to save her; then my house and annsare open tomy

son’s wife.”

“God bless you, father!” cried Walter, in a broken voire; “and God bless you. dear cousin! Yes. it's no time for words.” And he was gotm in a moment. “Now. Milton,” said the Colonel, “he won't sir* p here till the work is done, and he won't sleep at all if we don't get t bed for him near the mine. You order the break out. and go to the Dun Cow and do what you can for him.” “ J hat I will, sir; I'll take his own sheets and bedding with me. I won't trust that woman—she talks too much; ■ind. If you please, sir. I’ll sta y th re a day or two myself, for niayhc I shall coax him to eat a morsel of my cooking, and to lie down a bit, when he would

not listen to a stranger.”

“You're a faithful creature," said the Colonel, rather aggressively, not <-hoos-

morse had disunited, them. Monekton had registered a vow of future vengeance upon his late associate, but in the mean time, taking a survey of the present circumstances, he fell hack upon a dark project he had conceived years ago, on the very day when he was arrested for theft in Hartley's office. Perhaps our readers, their memory disturbed by such a number of various matters as we have since presented to them, may have forgotten that project, but what is about to follow will tend to revive their recollection. Monekton then wired t<> Mrs. Hraliam'slawyer demanding an immediate interview with that lady; he specified the hour. The lawyer went to her directly, the matter being delicate. lie found her in

gre his

trouble.

jrent distress, and before he could open communication she told him tier

P

she told him 1

She said that her husband,

she feared, was going out of his mind; he groaned all night and never slept,

and in the day-time never spoke.

There had been just then some surprising fails and rises in foreign securities. and the shrewd lawyer divined at once that the stock-broker had been doing business on ids own account, and got pinched; so he said. “My dear madam, 1 suspect it is business on the Kxchange; lie will get over that; but there is something that is immediately pressing,” and he then gave her Monckton's

message.

Now her nerves were already excited, and this made matters worse. She cried and trembled, and became hysterical, and vowed she would never go near Leonard Monekton again; he had never loved her; had never been a friend to her as Jonathan Hraham had. "No.” said she; “if he wants money, take and soil my jewels; but l shall stay with my

husband in Ids trouble.”

"He is not your husband,” said the lawver, quietly; “and this man is your husband, and things have come to my knowledge lately which it would he imprudent at present to disekee either to him or you; hut we are old friends. You cannot doubt that I have your interest

at heart.”

“No. 1 don’t doubt that.” said Lucy, ha- tP.y. and held out her hand to him. “Well, then,” said he. “he persuaded

and meet the man.”

"N’o, I v:;!! not do that.” said she. “I mi n ! a good woman, I know; hut it is not for v ant of the wish. I will not nlay double any more." And from that nothing he could say could move her. The lawyer returned to his place, and when Monekton called next day he told him he was sorry to say Mr. Hraham was ill and in trouble, and the lady couldn't meet him. She would make any reasonable sacrifice for his conven-

ience except that.

“And I,” said Monekton, “insist upon

that, and nothing else.”

The lawy er endeavored to soften 1dm, and hinted that lie would advance money himself sooner than his client

should he tormented.

But Monekton was inflexible. He said: “It is about a matter that she cannot communicate to you, nor can I. However, I am much obliged to you for your information. She won't leave liei stock-broker, eh? Well, then I know where to tind her;” and he took up his

hat to go.

“No, pray don’t do that,” said Mr. Middleton, earnestly. "Let me try her again. She has had time to sleep over

it.”

“Try her,” said Monekton, sternly, “and if you are her friend, take herlnishand’s side in this one thing; it's the last time I shall trouble her.” "I am her friend,” said the lawyer. “And if you must know, I rather wish her to meet you and get it over. Will you come here again at live o'clock?” “All right,” said Monekton. Monekton was struck with lawyer Middleton's manner, and went away puzzling over it. “What's/tis little game, I wonder?” said he. The lawyer went post-haste to his client's house. He found her in tears. She handed him an open letter. Hraham was utterly ruined, and besides that had done something or other he did not care to name; lie was off to America, leaving her what monev she could lind in the house and the furniture, which he advised her to sell at once before others claimed it; in short, the man was wild with tear, and at present thought but little of anybody but himself. Then the lawyer set himself to comfort her as well as he could, and removed his request that she would give Monekton a meeting. “Yes.” said she wearily—“it is no use trying to resist him; lie can conic here.” The lawyer demurred to that. “No,” said he; “keep your own counsel, don't let him know you aredeserted and ruined; make a favor of coming, but come; and a word in your ear- he can do more for you than Hraham can, or will ever do again. So don't you thwart him if you can help.” She was quick enough to see there was something weighty behind, and she consented. I le took her hack with him; only she was such a long time removing the traces of tears,and clioosingthe bonnet she thought sheshoirld look l«-4

lug V break down; "no aie'toti .bum; i*». that she ma'.V him twenty minutes

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and il is at these moments we f nd out our friends in the house; and. confound you, I forbid you both to snivel,” said lie. still louder. Then, more gravely. “How do we know? many a slo.tny day ends well: this calamity mav bring h:t;>piness and peace to a divided house.” Colonel Clifford prophesied right. Walter took the lead of a working gang and weak* J nighl ami day. resting two hours only in the twenty-four,and even that with’ great reluctance. Outside, the scene was one of hustle and animation. Little white tents, for the strange workmen to sleep in, dotted the green, and two snowy refreshment tents were pitched outside ibe Hun Cow. That establishment had large brick ovens and boilers, and the landlady, and the women she had got to help her, kept the tallies always groaning under solid fare that never once flagged, being under the charge of that old campaigner, Colonel Clifford. The landlady tried to look sad at the occasion which called

late, ami rather cross. It is a way women have of souring that honey-comb,

a man.

When the trio met at the office, the husband was pale, the wife dull and sul-

len.

"It's the last time I shall trouble you,

Lucy,” said Monekton. “As you please. Leonard."

“Ami I want you to make my for-

tune.”

“You have only to tell me how." (quite

incredulously.)

“You must accompany me to Derbyshire. or else meet me at Derby, wbiehever you please. Oh. don't be alarmed. 1 don't ask you to travel with me as

mar. and wife."

“It doesn't much matter, I suppose,”

said Lucy doggedly.

“Well, you are accommodating; I'll

be considerate.”

“No doubt von will.” said Lucy; then turning her glorinuseyesfull upon hi»i.

“ H hat ii the cei nd”

The crime!” said Monekton, looking

forth her energy and talents: but sffe all about the room to tind it. “What

was a woman ot business, and herenm-plac*-ia> oozed through her. Oh. it was not so at the pit mouth; the poor wives whose husbands were entombed below, alive or dead, hovered and fluttered about the two shafts with their aprons to then eyes, and eager with their questions. Deadly were their fears, their hopes fainter and fainter, as day after day went by, and both gangs, working in so narrow a space, made little

crime?”

“The crime I'm wanted for: all jour schemes arc criminal, you know.” "Well, you're complimentary. It's notaenme this time; it’s only a con-

fession.”

“Ah! What am I to confess—bigamy?" “The idea! No. Yon are to confess— in a distant part of England, what you can deny in London next day—that on a certain dav you married a gentleman

U'-llt..r 1 'liO, ..-.I »

made little pro-

gress. compared with their own desires.! ^iliAi w^dterV'lifford'.’'

I’ll v,y that on the eleventh day of

and the prayers of those who trembled j

fol the result It -id - ■' u ,:.i tic.chin ini) <>I in-of two irillant DarHesail a short J ,lne ' 1 raai ' ri '*' 1 !1 fff*ntleinan who M* oi iwo gallant pauies. ami a stunt waS( . ;l || e)1 Walter Clifford.”

This was Lucy’s reply, and given very

description of it will he given; but as no new incidents happened for six days, we shall preserve the chronological order of events, and now relate a daring project which was revived in that intei-

val.

Monekton and Hartley were now enemies. Sin had uniteij, crime and re-

doggedly.

“Bravo! and will von stand toil if the real Walter Clifford says it is a lie?” Lucy reflected. “No, I will not.” “Well, well, we shall have time to talk j about that; when can you start?” “Give me three days!”, 1

“AH right.” “You won't keep me there long after I have done this wicked thing?” "N’o, no. 1 will send you home with flying colors, and you shall have your share of the plunder.” “I'd rather go into service again and work my lingers to the hone.” "Since you have such a contempt for money, perhaps you'll stand fifty pounds?" “I have no money with me. but I'll ask Mr. Middleton to advance me some.” She opened the door, and asked one of the clerks if she could see the principal for a moment. He came to her directly. She then said to him. “lie wants fifty pounds; could you let me have it for him?” “Oh.” said the lawyer, cheerfully, “I shall be happv to lend Mr. Monekton fifty or a hundred pounds upon his own note of hand.” They both stared at him a little: but a blank note of hand was immediately produced, drawn and signed at six months’ date for £52 10s.. and the lawyer gave Monekton his check for £50. Husband mid wife then parted for a time. Monekton telegraphed to his lodgings to say that his sister would come down with him for country air, and would require good accommodation, but would pay liberally. In most mining accidents the shafts are clear, and the debris that has to be picked through to get to the entombed miners is attacked with this advantage, that a great number of men have room to use their arms and pickaxes, and the stuff lias not to he sent up to the surface. Hut in this horrible accident both gangs of workers were confined to a small area and small cages, and thestuff hml to lie sent up to the surface. Hartley, who seemed to live only to rescue the sufferers by his own fault, provided miles of rone, and had small cages knocked together, so that the debris was continually coming up from both the shafts, and one great source of delay was averted. But the other fatal cause of delay remained, and so daylight came and went, and the stars appeared with incredible rapidity to poor Halter ai d the other gallant workers, before th’/v got within thirty feet of the pit: thos«rwiio worked in theold shafts, having looser stuff to deal with, gained an advance of about seven feet upon the other working party, and this being reported to Walter, he went down the other shaft to inspire the men by words and example. He had not been, down two hours when oneof theminerscried. “Hold hard, they are working up to us,” and work w as instantly suspended for a moment. Then.sureenoiigh,thesoimds of pickaxes working below were just audible. There was a roar of exultation from the rescuing party, and a man was sent up with his feet in a bucket, and clinging to a rone, to spread the joyful tidings; but tfie work was not intermitted for more than a moment, and in a few hours it became necessary to send the cage down and suspend the work to avoid another accident. The thin remaining crust gave way. the way was clear, lamps were sent down, aiid the saving party were soon in the mine, with a sight before them never to be forgotten. The few men who stood erect with picks in their hands were men of rare endurance; and even they began to fall, exhausted with fatigue and hunger. Five times their number lay dottedabout the mine, prostrated by privation, and some others, alas! were dead. None of tlie fellows were in a condition to give a rational answer, though Walter implored them to say where Hope wasand his daughter. These poor pale wretches, the shadowsof their former selves, were sent up in the cages with all expedition, and received by Hartley, who seemed to forget nothing, for lie had refreshment tents ready at the pit mouth. Meantime. Walter and others, ./hose hearts were with him, ran wildly through the works, and groped on their knees with their lampsftolind Hopeand his daughter; but they were not to lie found, and nine miners beside them were missing, including Ben Burnley. Then Walter came wildly up to the surface, wringing his hands witli agony, and crying “They are lost! they are lost!” “No,” cried Hartley: “they must not be lost; they shall not be lost. One man lias come to himself. I gave him portwine and brandy.” Then he dragged the young man into the tent. There was stout Jim Davies propped up and held, but with a great tumbler of brandy and port in his hand. “Now. my man,” said or rather screamed. Hartley .“tell him where Hone is. and Mary—that 1 Oh, God! on, God!” “Master.” said Jim. faintly. “I was in Hie liall witli Mr. Hope and ti c lady when the firstexplosioncame. Most of us ran past the old shaft and got dear. A few was caught by the falling shaft, for I looked b ack ami saw it. Hut I never saw Mast* i Hope among them. I f be was. be is bin ied under (lie abaft: but 1 do really think that he was that taken up wiih his girl, and that darm o villain that fiird the mine, us he's Iimto be in the hall, either alive or dead.” He could sav no more, but fell into a sort of doze, tho result of the powerful stimulant on h!s enfeebled frame ami empty stomach. Then Hartley, with trembling hands, brought out a map of the mine and showed Walter where the second party hail got to. ‘‘See. said hip "they arc within twenty feet of built.in. and tne I ail is twenty-three feet high. Hope measured it. Give up working downward, pick into the sides of that hall, for in that hall I seethemat night;sometimes they are alive, sometimes I hey are ihayl, sometimes they are dying. I shall go mail! I shall go madl” Witli this l-e went raging about, giving the wildest orders, with tin* ]o. i;s and tones of a madman, in a minute lie had a cage ready for Waller, and twenty t’resh-1 it lamps, an 1 down went Walter with more men and pickaxes. As soon as be got out of tin-cage lie cried.wildly,Stop that, men,and do as I do.” He took a sweep with his pick, and •bdivercd ;• horizontal b!ow aUbe clay on that side of tin* shaft Hartley had told him to attack. His pickaxe’siuck in it ; and heextricated it with ditliculty. “Nay. master.” cried a miner who had fallen in love with him, “drive thy pick at t' coal.” Walt'f then observed that above the clay there was a narrow seam of coal: he heaved his pick again, but instead of striking it bait downward, as he ought to have done, hedelivered atremendotis horizontal blow that m ale th**'• a! ring like a cnurcli bell, and jarred his own stout arms so terribly that the pick fell out of his numbed hand. Then the man who had advised him saw that in* was disabled for a time, and stepped into his place. Hut in that short interval an incident occurred so strange and thrilling that the stout miners uttered treble cries likt* women, and then one mighty “HatH” burst like a diapason from their

Manly bosoms.

till their faults, do at once is to and lamps and poisonous gases question of time.

CHAPTEK XXIII. RTTRIED ALIVE.—THE TIlltEK DEADLY

PERILS.

Seven miners were buried under the ruins of the shaft; but although masses of coal and clay fell into the hall from the side nearest to the explosions, and blocked up some of the passages, nobody was crushed to death there; only the smoke was so sidling that it seemed

Impossible to live.

Tlie smoke was lighter tlian the air; its thick pall lifted by degrees and re-

vealed three figures.

Grace Hope, by happv instinct, had sunk upon the ground to breathe in that stifling smoke. Hope, who had collared fit'll Hiirnley, had sunk to the ground with him, but still clutched the assassin. These were tlie three left alive in the hall, and this was their first struggle

for life.

As soon as it was possible to speak, Hope took up his lamp, which hail fallen, and holding it up high, he cried, “Grace, my child, where vou?” She came to him directly: he took her in his arms and thanked God lor this great

preservation.

Then he gave Burnlev a kick, and ordemNiim to tlie right hand of the hall. “You'll keep to that side.” he said, “and think of what you have done; your victims will keep this side, and’ comfort each other till honest men undo jour

work, you villain.”

Burnley crouched.and wriggled awav like a whipped hound, and flung himself

down in hitter despair.

“Oh, papa.” said Grace, “we have escaped a great danger, but shall we ever

see tlie light of day?”

“Of course we shall, child; be sure that great efforts will be made to save us. Miners have their faults, but leaving oilier men .to perish is not- oneof them; there are no greater heroes in tinworld than those rough fellows, with

What you and I must search for provisions tools; if there are no set free, it is a mere Mv poor child has a

hard life before her; but only live, and

we shall he rescued.”

These brave words comforted Grace, ns they were intended to do,and she accompanied her father down the one passage which was left open after the explosion. Fortunately this led to a new working, and before In* had gone many yards I iopefouud a lamp that had been dropped by some miner who had rushed into the hall as the tirst warning came. Hope extinguished the light,

and gave it to Grace.

“That will be twenty-fourhoiirs’light to us,” said he; “but. oh, what l want to find is food. There must be some

left behind.”

“Papa,” s.id Grace. “I think I saw a miner thruj a hag into an empty truck

when the itrst alarm was given.

“Back! back! mv child!” cried Hope,

“before that villain finds it!”

He did not wait for her. hut ran back, and he found Ben Burnley in the neighborhood of that very truck: but Burnlev sneaked off at his approach. 1 lope, looking into the truck, found treasures —a dozen new sacks, a heavy hammer, a small bag of nails, a can of tea. and a bag witli a loaf in it.and several broken pieces of bread. Ileput his lampout directly. for he had lueifer-niatchesin his pocket, and he hid the hag of bread; then he lighted his lamp again and fastened it up bv a nail in the centre of the

hall.

“There.” said he to Burnley, “that's to light ns both equally; when it goes out, you irXist hang up jours in its place.” “That’s fair,” said Burnley, humbly. There were two trucks on Hope's side of the hall—the empty one in question, and one that was full of coal. Both stood about two yards from (lope'sside of the hall. Hope turned the empty truck and brought it parallel to the other: then he nailed two sacks together. and fastened them to the coal truck and the debris; then In* laid sacks upon the ground for Grace to lie on. and he kept two sacks for himself, and two in reserve, and he took two and threw them to Ben Burnley. “I give you two, and I keep two mvself,” said he. “But mv daughter shall have a rooni to herself even here; and if you molest her I'll brain you with tins hammer.” “I don't want to molest her.” said Burnley, “it ain’t mv fault she's here.” Then there was a gloomy silence, and well there might he. The one lamp, twinkling faintly again-t the wall, did but make darkness visible, and revealed the horror of this dismal scene. The weary hours began tocrawl away, marked only by Hope’s watch, for in this living tomb summer was winter, and dav was night. The horrorsof entombment in amine have, we think, been described better than any other calamity which befalls living men. Inspired ’by this subject, novelists have gone heyoii i themselves, journalists have gone beyond themselves; and, without any nll'eciation. we say we do not think weeoublgo through tiie dismal seem*before us in gs general details wit howl fatJlug V many g.ir“d contemn;.ra; ,es. and milling bulk without value to their descriptions. The true characteristic feature of Hiis sad scene was not. we think, the alternations of hope ami despair, nor the gradual sinking of frames exhausted by ii linger i*.nd thirst but thtfclicuui.stance that here an assassin and his vict ims were involved in one terrible calamity: and as one dav succeeded to another. o,it (!’•> !' ■] .'.! if. t ue ratue not, t!ie hatred of the assassin and Ins victims was sometimes at odds with the fellowship that sprangout of a jointcalamitv. About tyvclve hours after the explosion, Burnley detected Hopeand his daughter eat ug, amt moistening their lips yyith tea and a spoonful of brandy that Hope had poim d mto it out of his tlask to keep it from turning sour. “What, hay cn't you a morsel forme?” said the ruffian, in a piteous voice. Hope gav< o sort ot snarl of contempt, btit still lie tl'.ing a crust to him, as lie would to a dog. Then, aiter some slight hesitat'on, Grace rose quietly and look thesmalhr can. amt tilled it yvith tea, and took it across to hun. “There.” said she, “and may God forgive you!” He took it ami stared at her. “It ain't my fault that you are here,” said lie; but she put up' her hand ::s niurh as to say, “No idle words.” Tyvo yvhole days had now elapsed. The food, though economized, yvas all gone. Burnley s lamp was flickering, continued next week The Spring' Medicine “All run down” from the weakening effects of warm weather, you need a good tonic and Wood purifier liko Hood's Sarsaparilla. Do not put off taking it. Numerous little ailments, if neglected, was soon break up the system. Take Hood’s Sarsaparilla now, to expel disease and give you strength and appetite. Hood’s Pills are the best family cathartic and liver medicine. Harmless, reliable rus.

IJNoah’s ark was larger than the Great Eastern. Emperor William has all his plain clothes made in London. The notes of the Bank of England cost exactly 1 cent each. Jacksonville has two hotels which, together, cost over $5,000,000. More than 16,000 Hindoos have been inoculated lor the prevention of cholera. One of the curious things about the Gulf Stream is that no whales are found in it. The total number of electors in this country, including women entitled to vote, is 13,500,000. Peach stones find ready sale to be used in manufacturing perfumes, flavoring extracts and prussic acid. A horse has sold for $100,000, a cow for $30,000, a ram for $6,000, barnyard fowl for $100 and a dog lor $4,000. I One mile of wire such as is used in the manufacture of hair springs for watches would weigh less than a half pound. The largest needle factory in the yvorld is in Redditch, Worcestershire, England. Over 70,000,000 needles are made weekly. Of the 10,540 newspapers published in Germany, 7,630 are issued in the German language, and 2,916 in 33 foreign languages. It is a curious fact, as noted by Sir Samuel Baker, that a negro has never been known to tame an elephant or any wild animal. It is the secretary bird of South Africa that can whip any snake of twice its size. Stanley used to aver that the reptiles would crawl away from this bird’s shadow in wild fear. The Dakota River, with an estimated length ofCOO miles, is believed by many to be tlie longest unnavigable stream in the world. The tallest trees in the world grow in Australia. They are a species of marsh gum and some arc said to exceed 300 feet in he’ght. It is a point of honor that Moorish women never know their ages. They have no birthday celebrations. The IHiroverf/ Saved it is Life. Mr. G. Oallouette. Druggist, Beaversville, 111., says: “To Dr. King’s New Discovery I owe n y life. Was taken with La Grippe and tried all the physicians for miles about, but of no avail and was given up and told 1 could not live Having Dr. King’s New Discovery in my storf I sent for a bottle and began its use ami nom the first dose began to get better, ami after using three bottles was up and about again. It is worth its weight in gold. IVc won’t keep store or house without it.” Get u free trial at Albert Allen’s Drugstore. Elephants are dreadful sufferers from sea sickness during ocean voyages. Low Excursion Rates South. March and April arc the most unhealthful and unpleasant months in the North, while in the South they are among the pleasantest. All nature is decked with bloom. Now is the time to come South. Very low round trip rates can he secured on Excursions leaving 8t. Louis at 8:35 p. m., March 20. April 9, 10 and 2*1, May h and 22, and June 5, 189*1, over the Mobile and Ohio Railroad. It will only cost you a trifie to visit the best and most healthful sect ion of the South, where you can find cheap homes with as fine a climate as that of Italy. Full descriptions of the South sent free by E. E. Posey, General Passenger Agent M. & O. R. It., Mobile, Ala. if On the plains of Mature there is an oak under which legend says Abraham rested. Carr Jor Headache, Asa remey for all forms of Headache Electric Bitters has proved to he the very best. It effects a permanent cure and the most dreaded habitual sick headaches yield to its influence. We urge all who aye a filleted to procure a bottle, and give this remedy a fair trial. In cases of habitual constipation Electric Bitters cures bv giving the needed tone to the bowels, and few cases long resist the use of this me lioine. Try it once. Large bottles only Fifty cents at Albert Allen's Drug 8tore. Corsets have been found on the mummies of Egyptian Princesses of the royal family. Ita< JJea's Arnica Sat re. The best salve in the world for Cuts, Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Fever Bores, Teller, (’happed Hands, Chilblains, Corns, and ill Skin Eruptions, and positively cures Piles, or no pay required. It is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction or money refunded. Price 25 cents per box. For sale by Albert Allen. iy51

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