Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 November 1874 — Page 4

~ *TT: LOVE ASD LABOE. Wx die not ell: for oar deed* remain To crown with honor or mar with eta in; Through endless sequence of years to come Our lives shall speak, when our lips are dumb. What though we perish, unknown to feme, Our tomb forgotten, and lost oar name, Since naught is wasted In heaven or earth, And nothing dies to which God gives birth. Though life be joyless and death be cold, And pleasures pail as the world grows old, Yet God has granted onr hearts relief, For Love and Labor can conquer "fcrief. Love sheds s light on the gloomy wsy, And labor hurries the weary day; Though death be fearful and life be hard, Yet Love and Labor shall win reward. If Love can dry up a single tear, If lifelong Labor avail to clear A single web from before the true. Then Love and Labor have won their due. What though we mourn we can comfort pain; What if we die so the truth be plain; A little spark from a high desire hall kindle others and grow a fire. We are not worthy to work the whole; We no strength which may save a soul; Enough for ns if our life begin Successful struggle with grief and sin. Labor is mortal and fades away, But Love shall triumph in perfect day; Labor may wither beneath the sod; But Love lives ever, for Love is God. — Chambers' Journal.

RIGOLOT'S ORDEALS.

You were told some weeks ago how my French friend, Blaise Rigolot, became enamored of the dowry of Miss Ruth Cumleigh, and succeeded in intruding himself upon her attention. This week he and I have been staying at Cumleigh Lodge, in Surrey, to honor the pheasant preserves; but we have been doing something else besides shoot, thanks to the ingenious spirit of Miss Ruth. You recollect being informed that Mr. Cumleigh had fallen into bad odor among society, owing to Miss Ruth’s eccentric proceedings. Having a romantic mania for testing the personal courage of her adorers, this young lady had played pranks upon certain well-connected gentlemen —notably a guardsman or two — and these pranks had redounded more to Miss Ruth’s perspicacity than to the glorification of her victims. To revenge themselves, the well-connected gentlemen who had been made to show the white feather had spread the report that Mr. Cumleigh was disgracefully bad form, a person of whose antecedents nothing was known, and must have made his fortune by modes of which no rightthinking mind could approve. As for me, I only half-believed this; but having a great opinion of myself, like the rest of you, 1 hesitated to accept Mr. Cumleigh’s invitation, and it was only at the instant supplication of Rigolot that I at length condescended to accompany him. When we arrived Miss Ruth thanked me with a demure little bow for the honor 1 was doing her father’s roof, and hoped that I should not find the hospitality of it too humble. This was nonsense, for a less humble place could not be found by advertising. Cumleigh Lodge is rich, luxurious and yet tasteful; for those who, knowing little of the houses of city plutocrats, prate of the ostentatious vulgarity of these abodes, forget that men like >lr. Cumleigh seldom consult their own tastes in the matter of furniture, but appeal to artistic upholsterers. Before I had spent a cock-round at the lodge I could not help wishing that some of the aristocracy, among whom my acquaintances chiefly lie—as I think I was good enough to explain to you before—would take a leaf out of this city man’s book. The only thing to complain of was that among the other guests invited were a trifle too many fellow-city-men, strongly perfumed with gold. But, after all, gold is a good perfume. The other morning, then, after a satisfying breakfast of game pies, we observed that the sky was weeping, and, as sport was difficult under the circumstances, I strolled into the billiard-room and began knocking the balls about, waiting for Rigolot to join me. I had scarcely been so engaged a minute when Ruth Cirthleigh glided in with a gravity of purpose on her pretty face. She was adorably fresh —dressed in a butt costume or ecru linen, with a velvet band and large medallion round her neck, velvet bracelets round her wrist, and a scarlet rose stuck, as by the merest accident, in her girdle. Laying a finger on her lips she motioned to me to follow her into the conservatory adjoining the billiard-room, and there, when I had let fall the door curtain, she said: “Mr. Trefoil.” “ Miss Cumleigh.” “ Your French friend is making violent love to me.” “ I do not wonder at it.” “ It’s a matter of taste; but I should be careful before marrying a French man.” “ An authentic Yiscount, I believe.” “ Oh, foreign Viscounts! And then I have no faith in the courage of these Frenchmen. They boast too much, and I would not give a pin for a man who boasted and had no courage. He would be sure to tyrannize and make one wretched and ashamed of him. What is your opinion of Monsieur Rigolot?” •“ Try him.” “ That is what I mean to do if you will help me. There is a ghost who is said to haunt a churchyard near here. Do you think Monsieur Rigolot is afraid of ghosts?” “ I have little taste for them myself, but a Frenchman may be above such prejudice.” “ And do you think Monsieur Rigolot would like to be awoke at night by two armed burglars pointing revolvers in his face?” asked Miss Ruth, fixing her large eyes on me. “ I can only answer for myself and confess that a night so disturbed would be most disagreeably noted in my memory." “ Well, I think that will do then,” said the pleasant young lady, gravely; “ and to-morrow, if he gets through the two trials creditably, I will tell himth at papa has received a telegram saying that his fortune is in jeopardy. I shall see then whether your friend cares for me or my money.” I laughed,she laughed, and between us we agreed to submit Rigolot to as uncomfortable a series of ordeals as I have ever heard devised. So that evening at dinner-, just as the soup was being removed, and before any of the guests had

time to draw an artificial courage from wine, Ruth Cumleigh remarked quietly: “Papa, it’s to-night the ghost pays his yearly visit to Gravehill Churchyard.” « My dear child, how can you say such foolish things?” “ Mademoiselle believes in ghosts, sen?” inquired Rigolot, displaying his white teeth on the other side of the table. “In undoubted ghosts, Monsieur Rigolot, and this one has frightened several people to death. I’m sure it makes one’s flesh creep to think of it. Don’t you believe in ghosts?” Rigolot’s handsome face at once became serious. / “ Zere are more zings in heaven and earth zan we dream of, as your Shakespirie says, Mademoiselle; I cannot deny vat I know nozing about; but I care not for ghosts—l mock myself of zem—for vat can zey do to me?” “ The answer of a sensible and brave man, Mossheer Rigolot,” exclaimed Mr. Cumleigh with approval, and the other city men, their'wives and mobile incumbrances, concurred. But Ruth ejaculated, smilingly, as if skeptical: “ Well, would you dare to go and stand in Gravehill Churchyard alone at midnight, Monsieur Rigolot?” My friend made one of his inimitable French bows and asked whether Miss Ruth would favor him with her com pany; but she answered that the test of poco eurante ism in these cases consisted in being quite solitary. Accordingly it was understood that the Frenchman should set out for Gravehill unattended at half-past eleven; and I am bound to own that the prospect of this excursion did not interfere in the least with Rigolot’s good humor or appetite. He ate, chatted, and joked as usual, took rather less wine if anything than his wont, and at the appointed time, notwithstanding the dissuasions of Mr. Cumleigh, who begged him not to consider the whims of a spoiled child, he donned his hat and overcoat and sallied forth. It was especially noticed that he did not take a stick or umbrella. As soon as he was gone Ruth hastened to her room, and in ten minutes reappeared, having changed her dress and put on a thick shawl and bonnet. I was in waiting to give her my arm, and together we walked cut, going at a fast pace to reach the churchyard before midnight. It was about five minutes to twelve when we arrived, and, looking through a crevice in the low wall that surrounded the churchyard, we perceived the Frenchman sitting unconcernedly astride a tombstone. There was no rain, the moon was beaming, and, tall, very funereal, shadows were cast into the depths of the buttresses; and on one side of the spire, which rose straight and high in the clear air, Rigolot’s face stood full in the moonlight, and we could see that his indifference was perfect. Humming a tune, he drew a cigar-case from his pocket and struck a fusee on the tombstone. “ Manly, but profane,” whispered Ruth, clinging to my arm. It was at that very moment when midnight clanged from the steeple; and, precisely to the hour, a towering white apparition glided from the gloom of the church-porch and walked straight toward Rigolot. Not to alarm anybody, it may be stated that this apparition was nothing but a gardener’s boy, who was a great ally of Ruth’s in these adventures, and who played his part by the customary means of a sheet and a pole with a phosphorized mangel-wurzel at the top. This gardener’s boy then advanced; but the instant he began to be seen stalking among the tombs Rigolot raised a bright, joyous laugh—without a quaver in it—jumped from his grave and walked to meet him. The ghost was not prepared for this move, and receded; Rigolot followed. The ghost, thoroughly mystified, broke ground; then, seeing the Frenchman continue to approach, turned tail and ran. Hereupon Rigolot’s merry voice rang out in reiterated peals, and he called out, wjith wonderful intrepidity and archness: “ Come, don’t be afraid of me, my good ghost; lam only a man. Accept a ceegarre!” Ruth was abashed as we made our way home. There was no doubt Rigolot had got the best of the first bout, and I suggested the propriety of dispensing him from the burglar ordeal. But the arrangements had already been made. That gardener’s boy, a young city gentleman, named Tuttle, who had been sworn into the conspiracy, and myself had all rehearsed for climbing into Rigolot’s balcony with crape masks on our faces; and both Ruth and Tuttle anticipated too much good fun from this performance to be balked of it. Well* it was not such good fun after all, especially for Tuttle. I pass over the congratulations which Rigolot received on his return from the ghost expedition, and come at once to the small hour of three in the morning, when the gardener, Tuttle and I found ourselves climbing a ladder under Rigolot’s balcony, and each with a horse-pistol in his hands. Tuttle led the way, and, being provided with a glazier’s instrument for cutting glass, coolly removed a pane, passed his hand through the aperture, opened the window, and walked in. He had some difficulty in suppressing his grins, but he did not grin long. I have never heard for certain what actually ensued; but it seems that Rigolot was awakened by the noise, faint as it was, and seeing a burglar—there was a nightlight on the chimney-piece—leaped out of bed, flew to a drawer, and, extracting a revolver, thence let fly the whole six barrels at Tuttle without a word of warning. In saying six barrels, however, it is fair to mention that Tuttle did not wait for any barrels after the first, for in one bound he was on the balcony, and in a second he had dropped headlong on to the flower-bed, twenty feet below, without so much as touching the ladder. The gardener and I followed in a state of emotion which you may be left to imagine, for we heard the bullets crushing with fearful bangs through one pane after another; but possibly Rigolot did not really aim at any of us, for it was noticed afterward that the bullets went through the upper panes. Well, Rigolot had triumphed -in. two trials, but the worst was set him just before luncheon that day. All the morn

ing there had been panic-stricken talk among the city men about the presumed burglary of the night, and Rigolot had even given his version of that startling episode to a couple of policemen who •were sent for from the village. He was calm in his account, and strictly modest; in fact, hia attitude was such as would have given any ordinary young lady the highest opinion of him. And yet toward one o’clock Ruth Cumleigh, her face sparkling with mischief, suddenly passed through the room where I was, and, beckoning to me with her finger, said: “Just stand behind the door, Mr. Trefoil, and you’ll see.” Rigolot was seated, reading. He rose and abruptly exclaimed: “ Why, what is the matter, Mademoiselle? You are crying.” The artful puss was, indeed, passing her handkerchief over heT eyes. “ Oh, never mind me, Monsieur Rigolot ; it’s only for poor papa I case; he has just received a letter announcing his ruin.” “ Good heavens! ruin!” “ Yes, complete ruin. It seems he will not be able to save a shilling. Oh, dear! to think he should suffer like this!” “Ruin!” exclaimed Rigolot,with an extraordinary outburst of feeling. “Ah, Mademoiselle, forgive me for saying such a hard zing, but I am half glad of this. Yes ; I had long loved you; but you were rich, and I feared my attentions might be misjudged. But now z&t I am richer zan you say, my beautiful, darling Ruth, you vill be mine!” And hereon I, behind my door, heard something not unlike kisses; protests; then more kissing. An hour later Rigolot c»me to me in the garden and said: “Mon cher, I marry myself to Mees Ruth,” “ I congratulate you, Rigolot.” Then Rigolot winked—such a wink. “ I was in the billiard-room yesterday morning and overheard you both.”— Golden Age.

Anxious for a Bet.

A young gentleman with a mediumsized, light brown mustache and a suit of clothes, “on accommodating terms” — that- is, on the insecure credit system—came into a hotel one afternoon, and after calling for a glass of Madeira turned to the company present and offered to make a couple of bets, which nobody present seemed inclined to accept. The exquisite glanced around contemptuously and said: “ I want to make a bet of some kind; I don’t care a fig what it is. I’ll bet any man from a shilling's worth of cigars to SSOO. Now’s your time, gentlemen; What do you propose ?” Sipping a glass of beer in one corner of the bar-room sat a plain old gentleman, who looked as though he might be a farmer. Hie set down his glass and addressed the exquisite: “ Well, Mister, I’m not in the habit of making bets, but seeing you’re anxious about R I don’t care if I gratify you. So I’ll bet you a quarter’s worth of sixes that I can pour a quart of molasses into your hat and turn it out into a solid lump of candy in two minutes by the watch.” “ Done,” said the exquisite, taking off his hat and handing it to the farmer. It was a real silk hat, a splendid article, that shone like black satin. The old gentleman took the hat and requested the bar-keeper to send for a quart of molasses. “ The cheap sort, at ten cents a quart; that’s the kind I use in this experiment,” said he, handing over a ten-cent stamp to the bar-keeper. The molasses was brought, and the old farmer, with a very grave and mysterious countenance, poured it into the dandy’s hat, while the exquisite took out his watch to note the time. Giving the hat two or three shakes, with a Signor Blitz-like adroitness, the experimenter placed it on the table and stared into it, as if watching the wonderful process of solidification. “ Time’s up,” said the dandy. The old farmer moved the hat. “ Well, I do believe it ain’t hardened,” said he, in a tone expressive of disappointment;“ I missed it somehow or other this time, and I suppose I’ve lost the bet. Bar-keeper, let the gentleman have the cigars, and charge ’em in the bill,” “ What of the cigars!” roared the exquisite ; “ you’ve spoiled my hat that cost me ten dollars, and you must pay for it.” “ That wasn’t in the bargain,” dryly answered the old gentleman; “but I’ll let you keep the molasses, which is a little more than we agreed for.” Having drained the tenacious fluid from his beaver as best he could, into a spittoon, the man of the mustache rushed from the place—his fury not much abated by the sounds of ill-sup-pressed laughter which followed his exit. He made his complaint at the police office, but, as it appeared that the experiment was tried with his own consent, no damages could be recovered.

Gapes in Chickens.

The editor of the Lancaster (Pa.) Farmer says: “ In a recent conversation with an experienced chicken grower he informed us that he had been very successful in conquering that precarious disease in his young fowls by the appli cation of air-slaked lime. As soon as a manifestation of gapes in his fowls appears he confine? his chickens in a box, one at a time, sufficiently large to contain the bird, and places a coarse piece of cotton or linen cloth over the top. Upon this he places the pulverized lime, and taps the screen sufficiently to cause the lime to fall through. This lime dust the fowl inhales, and it causes it to sneeze, and in a short time- the cause of the gapes is thrown out in the form of a slimy mass or masses of worms, which hac. accumulated in the wind-pipe and smaller air vessels. This remedy he considers superior to aDy he has ever tried, and he seldom fails to effect a permanent cure. He has abjured all those mechanical means by which it is attempted to dislodge the entozoa with instrument? made of whalebone, hog’s bristles, or fine wire, alleging that people are quite as certain to push the gape worms further down the throat of the fowls as to draw them out.” ___ —About 300 houses have been erected in Salt Lake this year, notwithstanding the unprecedented dull times.

Home and Happiness.

TpEBJt can be no doubt that the truest happiness is ever to be found at home No man without a home can be long and truly happy. But the domestic group can be productive of happiness only when it is assimilated by affection and kept in union by discreet friendship. Then it tends to produce as much happiness as this world is capable of; and its sweet repose is sought for by all sensible men, as ever by the wisest and the greatest. What can be compared in our intercourse of life with the attentions on onr family, with their exhilarating Bmlles and undissembled love? All this raises the gentlest and most pleasing emotions, and calls forth all the sentiments of uncontrolled nature. What are the rap tures of ambition, the pleasures of fame, the delights of honor, in comparison with this? Utterly worthless and insipid. Hence it is that we see Senators and heroes shutting out the acclamations of an applauding world to partake the endearments of family conversation, and to enjoy the prattling of their little children in their harmless pleasures. This is one of the purest sources of mirth. It has influence, too, in amending the heart; for innocence is communicated by coming in contact with it; and the sweet simplicity of children tends to purify the heart from the pollution that it has ac quired from moving in the world and mixing with men. Into what an abyss of moral degradation should we not be sunken were it not for women and children. Well might the Great Author of evangelical philosophy have been delighted with the presence of children and found in them—-what he in vain sought among those who judged themselves their superiors—goodness and virtue. Cicero, with all his liberality of mind, felt the tenderness of home attachment. At one time he acknowledged that he received no satisfaction in any company but in that of his wife, his little daughter, and—to use his own language —“ his honied young Cicero.” Sir Thomas More, with his great powers of mind, devoted a great share of his time —because he knew it to be his duty and felt it to be his delight—to the amusement of His children. Homer, in his Iliad, in the parting interview between Hector and Andromache, has interested the heart of the reader in his terrible hero by showing the amiability of his Trojan chief, by depicting him, while standing completely armed for the battle-field, taking off his helmet that he might not frighten his little boy with its nodding plumes. How refreshed are we by this scene of domestic love! And how pleased to see the arm which is shortly to deal death and destruction among a host of foes employed in caressing an infant son with the embraces of paternal love. —Pen and Plow.

Bonnets.

A bonnet to match the dress is so universal that a costume seems incomplete and ineffective without it. Seal brown and invisible green are the colors milliners have most call for; there are also stone grays, plum color, grayish-blue and pure dark blue without any purple in it. Almost all bonnets have a roll or twist of velvet and silk under the brim, thus making it look very high. Contrasts of color are the exception this season, though peach blossom with brown, and lemon-color with myrtle green, are used with good effect. Very little lace is seen in winter bonnets, and jet has become so common that milliners use it very carefully. Ostrich feathers, either mere tip s demi-long, or the single long Mercutio plume, are found in all handsome bonnets. Ladies are advised that the single quill feathers are the most economical purchase, though more expensive and thinner-looking than “made feathers;” the natural feather costs from ten to fourteen dollars in its best qualities, but may be curled over and worn many seasons. The choice flowers are soft, loosepetaled roses that look as though they could he blown apart. "Two shades of red,in flowers, or else in flowers and gros grain, are seen on many black velvet bonnets. A black velvet bonnet without crown trimming, but merely a Mercutio plume and loops, has two reds in front, consisting of six gros grain loops of cardinal color, on which rests a large, dark brownish-red rose with embrowned leaves. Clusters of unblown rose-buds, showing some red just bursting through their green calyxes, are tied together 90 that their flexible stems show, and used for back trimmings; indeed, any loosecut flower, such as a single rose or lily bud, with its long stem, is pendent low on the left side of the bonntt.— Harper's Bazar.

The Mosquito.

In its perfect, or winged, state it is about as annoying a creature as can be, but then it must be remembered that the traveler is but a casual intruder in the natural domain of the mosquito, and must expect the consequences of his intrusion. Devouring travelers is not the normal occupation of the mosquito, for hundreds of successive generations may live and die, and not one of them ever see a human being. Their real object is a beneficent one. In their larval state they live in the water, and feed upon the tiny particles of decaying matter that are too small to be appreciated by the larger aquatic beings, and, by devouring them, purify the water and convert death into life. Even in our ponds at home we are much indebted to the gnat larvae for saving us from miaSma; while the vast armies of mosquito larvae that swarm along the edges of tropical lakes and feed upon the decaying substances that fall 'from the herbage of the banks purify at the same time the water and the atmosphere, and enable human beings to breathe with safety the air in which without their aid no animal higher than a reptile could have existed.—“ Insectß Abroad ,” by the Rev. J. G. Wood. —The Salt Lake Feus computes the number of polygamists in the Territory at 1,000 men, 3,000 women and 9,000 children, and the cost and loss by the punishment of all at $2,000, and that the courts would have around them 3,000 crying women and 9,000 crying children. —The Boston Fire Department has cost for the past five months $340,664-

Planes and Organs.

Fine new rosewood pianos for S3OO. Fine walnut organs, six stops $125 Good second-hand pianoe, $l5O to S2OO. Heed’s Temple of Music, Chicago. A Cincinnati policeman, with whom the world had had two or three hard rubs, hit upon a novel expedient for revenge. He arrested one of Police Commissioners on a charge of being intoxicated at a somewhat ancient date, swearing to the warrant himself, and having marched him to the police station he subjected him to all the indignities he could devise. y Whisky and the Weed.— lntelligent physiologists and pathologists admit that ail so-called medicines containing alcohol—whether they emanate from the regular pharmacopoeia and are called tincture #, or from the Empirical Rum Mills, and are labeled “ Tonics”—are essentially dangerous and destructive. The only way in which drunkenness can be arrested is by restoring the integrity of the nerves (especially the nerves of taste and the great sympathetic nerve), and purifying the animal fluids; and these objects are more certainly and swiftly accomplished by the use of Db Walker’s Vinegar Bitters than by any other means. Hence, probably, the opinions now so generally expressed, that this pure preparation is a sovereign remedy for the evils referred to. Should it be clearly ascertained that Vinegar Bitters is not only a specific for indigestion, liver disease, nervousness, scrofulous ulcers and eruptions, and a host of other disorders, but also for inebriety, thousands will rise up and call the disoverer blessed. 10 —Rev. Tunis Titus Kendrick says he doesn’t believe dancing is a sin; but we suppose he never had a Cincinnati lady tread on his toes. —Chicago Inter-Ocean Safe, Permanent and Complete!—Wilhoft’s Tonic cures Chills and Fever, Dumb Chilis end Bilious Fevers—those Titans that kill their thousands where this remedy is unknown. It cures Enlargement of the Spleen. It (cures Hypertrophy of the Liver. It hurts no one. It cures all types of Malarial Fevers and is perfectly protective in all its effects. Try Wilhoft’s Tonic, the great infallible Cbill Cure. Wheelock, Finlay & Co., Proprietors, New Orleans. For Sale bt all Druggists. Every reader of this paper can rea copy of the best Agricultural and Family newspaper in this country by addressing Moore’s Rural New-Yorker, 78 Duane street, New York. If you have been wearing paper collars and hhve not yet tried the Elmwood, we would advise you to do so at once. They fit splendidly. All the edges are folded, so they will not turn out, and the collars will not soil as easily as others. Frank Wentworth is rapidly making the Sherman House the most popular hotel in Chicago. While increasing its already unequalea merits he has also materially reduced its scale of prices. The Northwestern Horse-Nail Co.’i “ Finished ” Nail is the best in the world.

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It Is the only invention in the world that will positively preA Vent rain, cold, snow and dust from coining under door bottoms, Carpenters make lota of money handling it. Send at once for our circular. WILSON, PEIRCE * Co., Sole Manufacturers, 183 Clark St, Chicago. EPILEPSY OR FITS. A SURE CURE for this distressing complaint fi now made known in a Treatise (of 48 octavo pages) on Foreign and Native Herbal Preparations, published l-y Dk. O. Phelps Bbown. The prescription was discovered by him in such tC providential manner that he cannot conscientiously refuse to make it known, as it has cared everybody who has used It for Fits, never hartng failed in a single case. The Ingredients may be obtained from any druggist. A copy sent free to all applicants by mail. Address Dr. O. Phelps Bbown, 21 Grand street, Jersey City, N. J. the only Self-Threading Machine,Mß BPSIsEir-liSl IlfiflJl SHUTTLE " f in, the world. ■ AGrBltfTS WiAIVTWIJ. 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MASON & HAMLIN CABINET ORGANS. Winners of THREE HIGHEST MEDALS abb DIPLOMA OF HONOR at VIENNA, 1878, PARIS 1867, and in AMERICA ALWAYS. Declared by MUSICIANS GENERALLY to be UNRIVALED and INCOMPARABLE. Sold at fixed uniform prices to all, which are printed and invariable. PURCHASERS OF ORGANS ARE REMINDED that the temptation to Dealers and Peddlers is very strong to deal in and recommend as best the organs or those makers who will pay them the largest commissions or discounts for * e Tho Ug MASON & HAMLIN ORGAN COprinting as they do their lowest prices, can afford to dealers only the smallest commissions. This plan secures to every purchaser tfle lowest price, because the dealer cannot ask more than the Catalogue price; but it causes many dealers to do their best to sell other organs, slmpty because they get enormous discounts on them. Some organs are currently sold to dealers at seventy-five J>er cent, discount, or atonequarter the prices printed for them. As a rule, the poorer the organ the higher ita-printed price and the greater the discount on it. The MASON & HAMLIN ORGAN CO. are now offering new styles, with Important Improvements, and are selling not only for cash exclusively, but also on new plans of easy payments, running through one year or longer. They also rent new organs with privilege of purchase. Rent paid three WffiM s and Circulars, Which give very foil information and are seat free. APDBXBB: THE MASON At HAMLIN ORGAN CO„ _ AT KXTHEK New York, Boston or Chicago.

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