Pike County Democrat, Volume 16, Number 5, Petersburg, Pike County, 11 June 1885 — Page 4

PIKE EOITY DEMOCRAT. “Published Every 'Thursday. PETERSBURG, ... INDIANA. THE MONARCH. Not he who leads the conquering hosts. Nor mounts the highest throne, Nor wins the loudest praise of mao. Though he achieve alone; Not he who braves the battle’s front . Whe:q treason fierce assails, Anddares the deadly cannon’s mouth When only hope prevails; N2£b<i^rbo8ra,tes with aU his powers * The fals ty of heart That lurks in subtle reasonings. Or smiles in fancied art— But he who strikes the foe within, The part of self that keeps The noble aspirations drowned In mournful loths sleeps! Who hears afar the angels call. And Titan-like he strives. Until in mortal agony : * He rends the iron gyves, And stands at last a soul confessed, Unfettered, free and grand; The victor over self becomes The greatest monarch of the land! —Birch Arnold, in Detroit Five Presa. [Copyright Secured. All Rights Resen'cd.] Or, JUST A CAMPIN’. BT O. C. POST. Published by Permission or J. E. Downey & Co., Publishers, Chicago. CHAPTER VI.—Continued. ;The first rains, however, wash the greater portion of the nourishment out of this dried grass, and although the new shoots spring up at once, it is difficult, for a time, for stock to get at it through ‘the heavy coating of old and worthless growth which falls down over it, and is .not very nourishing when obtained. A portion of the settlers had a cow each, but those in whom we are most interested were without. Among those who were sd fortunate as to possess one, however, was Ritchie; and as Mr. Parsons and Erastus were enabled to give him heeded assistance in the erection of his shanty and the cutting of grass for 0 his team and cow, it was agreed that the milk should bo divided between the two families for the next year, Jenny and Lucy making regular trips for tneir share every night and morning. The shanty up, and a sufficient amount* of grass secured, the settlers next turned their atteption to the breaking of the soil, the planting of trees and vines, and, at the proper time, of vegetables. For the first year they expected to live largely upon wild game and the few provisions whieh they had brought with them. The second year they would get on much bet

ter. There is no country where the common domestic fowls, ducks, chickens and geese, are so easily raised or pay so well the little attention which they require as iu California; and our friends were in possession of a sufficient number of these to enable them to subsist upon eggs and fowls of their own raising, if need be, by another year; besides which they would be well supplied with vegetables, so that the prospect was not so very gloomy after nil, especially as all were blessed with good health;' and hope, which usually comes with a healthful body busily employed in its own service, gave a coloring as of the sunrise to the future which was opening up before them. Fruit trees were already being shipped to the coast by way of the isthmus, and although they were costly and our friends poor, they managed to get a few; enough, at least, to furnish grafts for future use. Of peach pits and apple and pear seeds the careful housewife who presided over John Per on’s shanty had brought a supply from the States. ^Grape-cuttings could be more easily More than a century before obtained. the JesViit priests who pgmjtratea upward from Mexico had planted grapevines brought from Spain, and these, crossed, perhaps, with other varieties brought from the States, and favored by the adaptability of the ’climate, produced a fruit far excelling anything which the Atlantic States can boast of. And so when spring came again and the rain ceased, there was quite the appearance of living in tbe vicinity of the Parsons Shanty. Sonic twenty acres of the land had been broken, a garden planted, and many of its products were lifting their beads to the sunlight; a half-hundred fruit trees and a hundred grape-vinps hpd put forth their leaves, and were ready to drink in the sunshine and grow. And they grow. Grew so fast that one couid almost fancy he saw them grow and stretch themselves. It has been said that the only thing which ever distanced a California grape-vine when it once got down to the business of growing is the bean-vine of Jack the Giant.-Killor, known to our childhood days; the one that Ja6k undertook to climb to the top of, but ■which grew faster than he could climb, \ and so carrying him with it, finally reached clear up to the giant’s castle. And such olnsters of fruit as hang v dependent upon their stems, and grow and ripen in the long sunny days of September and October, when not a eloud mars tho blue of the sky for weeks and weeks; clusters that look like pure globes of clear crystal; or that turn purple and amber-colored where they bang among the broad, velvety leaves that seem as if conscious of the beauty of the picture which they help to make; and which turn themselves sideways upon their long, stems, now hiding, now disclosing the fruit in their midst The California grapes shipped by refrigerator cars, and exposed for safe at the fruit stands in all our Eastern cities, and which attract such Universal attention, give but a poor idea of California grapes when plucked and eaten standing beneath the vine in California, V>r sitting at ease at your own table, or that of a l'r end, with the sea or the mountains in sight through the open ■window." Only the tougher skinned or less luscious of the fruits of all kinds will bear such long shipping. The finer and juicier and more luscious varieties of each must be eaten where they are frown, or be sent to a not distant maret. California pluiqs are -wrapped in tissue paper aud sent east boxed up like oranges from Florida or the West Indies, and sold ‘‘a nickel apiece, or three for a dime,” to people who buy * them as a curiosity, or a very rare treat. At home in California the children eat them as children eat apples in New England, and the housewife drops th^rr. into liquid sugar and takes them out great globes of pearl with centers of amethyst. Or she cuts them in halves, and, removing the pit, lets them dry in the sun, and stores them away in sacks and boxes just as she does figs and grapes; only that these latter are packed down hard when but little more than half dried, and before the rich jnices have crystalized into sugar; and which, eaten as freely as bread is eaten. rich blood of children flushes the veins with the thut crimsons the cheeks and grown people alike in this land of fruits and flowers; this land of mountain ranges and sea-washed shores; of valleys as rich in the elements ol agricultural wealth as its hillsides are with precious ores—this land that should bear a people as free as tbe breeze that

floats in upon them iaden with healing balm from the salt sea waves to find— not fieemen, but, delving lin mines and upon •eagues and leagues of the richest farming lands upon the continent—a million serfs. * CHAPTER VII. “ A LAND FLOWING WITH MILS AND BONMT.“ “I say, mother, it wasn't; such a bad thing for us after all that they driv us off of the Suscol Ranch,'’ said John Parsons to his wife one morning, as he came under the rough porch that had been put up in front of the shanty. He had just finished helping Erastus get ready to start to market with the usual load of fruit which they were-now selling daily. “I'm sure fruit and poultry-raisin’ is a heap pleasanter than raisin’ wheat, and there’s more money into it, too. “Only think, we've been here less than five years now, and we’ve got all the fruit grow in’ that we kin all of us tend to, and the money is just a rollin’ in. If the rest of the crop pans out as well as it has so fur, wo kin build a new house with a verander -all around it next year, and, have money left to send the girls down to ’Frisco to school.” “Yes, we are getting along very nicely,” replied his wife, “and ought to be thankful, I’m sure.” “As soon i as we git a new house built,” continued Mr. Parsons, “we must begin to save up money to buy a ranch som’ers niglL about here for ’Rastns, fer I s’pose we can’t in reason expect the boy to stay with us always. Human natur’ don’t change much, I reckon; it's the same ou the Pacific as it is on the Atlantic coast, and I hain’t forgot that I was mighty anxious to get a place of my own ’fore I was as old as ’Rastus is; ’specially after I got acquainted with a certain girl with cheeks the color of them there peaches a hangin’ out there in the sun, and eyes that sort of made me hot and cold by turns, a-wbnderin’ whether they was encouraging me, or takin’ n6te of the size of my cow-hide boots, whenever they looked my way. “.Not,” he continued, “as I’ve noticed that ’Rastus seemed particularly took with any of the girls round here— leastwise them as lives far around here,” he added, looking hard at his wife, as if endeavoring to read her thoughts. If Mrs. Parsons understood what her husband was thinking of, she made no attempt to reply, and after waiting a second or two, he began again: “I don’t see as ’Rastus appears to take particular to any of the neighboring girls, but whether he does or not; whether lie takes a wife from close by or furder oft', it’s only fair that we help him to a start; He’s been true as steel and as kind as if he was our own son, and I’m a reckonin’ if he and one of the girls should sometime take a notion to hitch up and work in double harness, there wouldn’t bo any objections; eh, mother?” “The girls are not old enough to get married, John,” returned Mrs. Parsons. “Jennie is not sixteen yet and Lucy is two years younger still. I hope that neither of them will think of such a thing as marriage for a good while. Erastus himself is not quite twenty-one, and although many young men marry as young as tliat, I do not think that Erastus lias any such intentions. Not that he has ever said anything to me; but as you say I have not noticed that he appeared partial to any of the neighboring girls, although he is a favorite with all; and as for Jennie and Lucy, they probably seem to like him like sisters; indeed, lie seems like a son .to me, and whoever he may choose for a wife when he does marry will get an honorable man for a husband and one who will be kind and loving, I am sure.” “That’s so,” replied John, “’Rastus ain’t a fellow that will ever go to knockin’ his wife and babies around,, if he ever has any. But I ’spose it ain’t no use to try to fix things up* for the young folks. We’ll have to let ’em take their own head, wliich’ll be just as the heart directs ’em, I reckon., An’ I wouldn’t want ’em to do no other way, for unless the heart goes with the hand it ain’t no use for to try to pull together. Well, now, here's a youngster that ain’t bothering his head about the girls, any way, nor won’t be for some years yet, will you, Johnny? He’ll be bossin’ the hull ranch, though, if his mother and I don't look out, afore he’s big enopgh to hunt hen’s eggs or tie up a grape-vine.” And reaching down he drew upon his knee and gave a great hug to a suntanned, tow-keadea boy that had just entered; tho child of their old age, born the year the shanty had been put up and the first grape-vines planted. “I is bief ’nough to hunt; edds now,” retorted the little fellow, squirming to release himself from his father’s arms. “I did found a whole nes’ful out under the roses bush, and you’ve broke ’em; see.” .

And he ran his hand into his pocket and withdrawing it covered with the yolk of the eggs stood holding it up, while the liquid dripped down over his clothes. “You should'nt have put the eggs in your pocket,’’ said his father, laughing at the spectacle which he presented. “You might have known they would have got broken and spoil your new pants.” “What’s ’euse of pantses if ’ou tan’t put edds m ’e pottits. I’d lite to know,” replied the youngster as he waddled oft to his mother to be cleaned up and fitted for some new adventure. “Des I tan put edds in my own potits if I ’ants to,” ho added, by way of a clincher, as his father playfully stooped to chuck him with his huger as he passed out to his work; . When the season’s fruit had all been gathered it was found that the last half of the crop had “panned out all right” as compared with that marketed eariier, and it was decided to send the girls away to school for the winter instead of waiting until spring, when a new house was to be begun, and when their services would be much more needed by their mother. But instead of going to San Francisco they would'only go to Sacramento, where there was a very good school under the charge of Prof. Cook, and being nearer they could be the sooner reached in case they should be taken sick. Letting the girls go from her side was the hardest thing Martha Parsons had been called upon to do since she let John take her arms from around his neck and start on his long journey twelve years before, when they lived in the log house back in the States; but like other mothers she loVed her children and was unwilling that her girls should grow up without every advantage possible to give them. Their opportunities for attending school had never been very good, and for a time after they had settled in their present home they were without any instruction except such as she could herself find time to give; and it was she, and not their father, who had suggested sending them away to school. In fact he had at first opposed it; not because of the expense, but because he thought their mother needled their help, and because he did not like to be separated from them. His own education was not so good as that of his wife, and he did not look as far into the future in planning for their welfare; or if so, .he did not understand as well as she how completely an uneducated woman, married to a man who follows some kind of manual labor for a living, is cut off from all social and intellectual intercourse with her kind, and how barren of all that is beautiful and ennobling her life becomes. It is bad enough to be tied to an endless round of household duties, even when the mind can take occasional rest

and recreation in the perusal of a book or paper; when sufficient taste has been developed to induce the taking of some interest in passing events outside of one's own scnool district; but when, as is the case with thousands of women, no such t&ste has been cultivated in girlhood, and the seeming duties of wife and motherhood leave no time to acquire or devote to it at a later period, life becomes no more than an animal existeAce—becomes a stagnant pool, across whose waters no fresh breezes blow; on whose margin no fair flowers bloom; in whose depths is mirrored no silvery moon, no star of hope; and the spirit which should be prepared at the death of the body to mount to higher planes of thought and action, hnds itself hound by chains forged on earth— chains which' arc not broken by the depth of the body, but must still weigh down the soul in its efforts to mount upward into a higher and better and holier atmosphere. This Mrs. Parsons not only knew but felt, and she was determined that no saeriliee on her part should be spared, if necessary, that her girls might receive at least sufficient education to enable them to take and retain positions in society with the most intelligent of the men and women with whom they would be likely to come in contact in the humble lives, 'which she expected and was content that they should lead, as possible wives of the coming men who were to make the valleys and hillsides blossom as a garden, and laugh beneath their burdens of fruits and grains. CHAPTER vm. A COMFORTABLE HOME. “Looks sort of showery like,” said. John Parsons, coming into the shanty the day before the girls were to go to Sacramento, and finding them and their mother with eyes which gave evidence of weeping, packing up their wardrobes preparatory to starting. “I believe I shall cry myself if you wimin folks don’t stop lookin’ so sick like about the mouth. You don’t want to see.an old man like me cry, do you, now?"* “Come, mother, cheer up. Yon know the girls ’ll be in good hands, that ’ll treat ’em well and let us know if anything happens ’em. ’Tain’t fer very long any way; only a few months, an’ x was gone from you all more than six years, and if I hadn’t a left you we wouldn’t have had this ranch to-day, which will soon be the rinest in the whole country; worth all the hard work and sufferin’ we've gone through. ’“At least,” he added, meditatively, “as well worth it as anything that poor folks gits is worth what it octets ’em. “And here’s Johnny, he’s a houseful of himself, ain’t yoii, Johuny? You won’t let mother and me git lonesome, will you?” But the youngster had caught the infection of tears, and his father’s forced attempt at being jocular could not remove the feeling of coming loneliness that was casting its shadow before, and he stood still and looked silently at the preparations for the departure of his sisters with an expression on liis face of sadness ana half of baby wisdom, as if he halted between sorrow for the coming loss of the girls and regrets that his parents had no better judgment than to permit their going. The morrow saw them depart A few months later, a beautiful day in spring saw them return, improved in mind ana appearance from the contact with those whose thoughts and deeds had sought or were seeking, a diflerent channel than that to which their -own had been confined. • If John Parsons had been, proud of his girls before, he was doubly so now; for he could not fail to see that association with people of education had given an addend grace to the body as "well as the mind. And, unwittingly perhaps, the young people of the neighborhood showed them a trifle more deference than was usually given to those of their own age and condition in life. This deference was in no sense obsequiousness; it was but the natural expression of that respect which all, even those least ambitious of excellence, feel for others who are known to be striving to make themselves, wiser and better. Mrs. Parsons was not less pleased than her husband. She also noticed the esteem in which her girls were held by young and old; and that while they aided as willingly and cheerfully in the household work, or in that of the vineyard and orchard, as ever they had done, they saw that the performance of manual labor alone was not all their duty to themselves and to society, but that the mind and the heart were entitled to consideration as well as the

Dotty. As for Erastus. he felt a little shy when he welcomed the girls on their return. True, he kissed both Jennie and her sister, but somehow it was not the hearty kind of a smack with which he had bidden them good-bye, and he held Lucy’s hand while he kissed her, instead of giving her a hug as he had done the morning they left As for Johnny, he was in ecstacies; for had not the girls brought him a halfdozen things that he had been wanting and expecting on their return? Besides, lie should have some one to help hunt hens’ nests and look for ducks’ eggs in the water of the creek, where they persisted in laying them if they were not watched and shut up every night. A few days after the return of Jennie and Lucy the carpenters came and began work on the new house. All the spring and summer they were busy; and when they left, there stood in front, and a little above the old shanty, which was henceforth to be used for fruit-packing and drying purposes, a two-story frame house with green blinds and a verandah on three sides; the coolest, most comfortable, most hos-pitable-looking Ubuseyou would see in a month’s travel. And no more hospitable family ever lived than that which gathered about the table of John and Martha Parsons, and partook of the rich fruits and wellcooked meats and vegetables with which it was daily spread. No straggling miner, weary with trayel and wanting rest and food, ever left their gate without at least a silent wish that blessings might descend and rest upon the household. To ramble about the broad porch and through the open rooms, or to gather around a cheerful fire in the wide grate in the sitting-room, came both the* young and the old of the neighborhood. The occasional traveler through the country on business or pleasure heard of the Parsons’ ranch; its splendidly tilled acres; its luscious fruits and its hospitable owners, miles before he reached it, and traveled an hour later that he might knock at its gates and obtain permission to spend the night beneath its broad roof. [to bk continued,] —Chickens, two minutes after they have left the eggs, will follow with their eyes the movements of crawling insects and peck at them, judging distance and direction with almost infallible accuracy. They will instinctively appreciate sounds, readily running toward an invisible hem hidden in a box when they hear her “call.”—Boston Qlobtf —Never plant willows at all near underdrains as the roo's of these trees will surely enter the drains and block them —N. E. Farmer. —No man can enlist in the regular army of China, it is said, until he has shown his courage by haring a tooth pulled.

Fashionable Flowers. What a pity it is that any one class Of flowers should become fashionable, just as if all flowers were not beautiful in their own way, and far above the mere chattering patronage of any particular set of admirers. Of all personal ornaments flowers are the most {>rec ou3 - far too valuable and everast ng to be spoken of in the same breath with the productions of the jeweler or tae milliner, and yet we are told that orchids are the fashionable bridal bouquets, because some one or two daughters of mdlionar es carry them. Very often nothing less graceful or more inappropriate could be chosen. The idea with many seems to be simply to find the most rare and unique spec es of natural flowers, independent of beauty; if they cost much and are rare, that is quite sufficient. The overstrained effort always betrays itself, and orchids were never yet mote highlyvalued by people of refined taste than were the wild violet, or the hedge rose. No Chaucer, no Herrick, no Wordsworth has sung of the orch ds as they have sung of daisies, of daffodils, or of the mcdest snowdrops but they have often been exh biteu as the flaunting decorations of those who have no higher appreciat on of them than that they were costly and so to some extent the en ign of wealth rather than that of beauty. It is a s'-gnificant fact, that just at1 present, the highest and the best cultured people are growing hardy flowers in preference to orchids.— Vick's Mayazine. His Capital. •‘I beg your pardon,” said a slouchily dressed individual, reaching for a bur wh ch adhered to the coat sleeves of a gentleman just ahead of him; ••there’s a bur on your coat, sir; per? mit me to remove it.” “Thank you; no consequence, ” sa d the gentleman, himself removing the bur. The impecun ous one struck an attitude, told the regulation story of hunger, and preferred a request for ten cents, with which to buy bread. He got the money, but still lingered. “What is it. my man?” asked the gentleman. “Please, hr,” replied the tramp, “you have my bur in your hand. I’d like it, if you please. § It is mv capital, you know.” “Your capital?'’ “Yes, my oap,tal; you see, I sticks it on to a cove what locks downy, you know, and then I steps up and takes it off. Sometimes I only gets thanks for mv trouble, and sometimes I don’t get^tliat much; and then some of ’em comes down handsome. Yes. boss, that’s my capital;, couldn’t do business without it; have to shut up shop, yon know.”—Boston Transcript.

Unfavorably Located. Old Unc'e Mose met Sam Johnsing on Austin avenue a few days since, and sad to li m: ’■I hear, Sam, yon are going to lead ter de altar one ob Austin’s fairest daughters. Am dat de fac?” “Uncle Mose, hit am de fao dat I has been pavin’ my d stresses ter de lubly and accompl shed Miss Matildy Snowball, but de tender relations which has di-sisted between us am severed forebbcr, sah.” “Did she kick yer, Sammv, or did she only set the dog on yer?” “No, sah. She lubs me yit, and she wanted me to call on her twict a day, sah but she libs next door to de cullud lady yrho has a wash bill agin me. so I jess made up my mind to transfer my defections ter some udder lady* what am more favorably located, sah.”— Tkxas Siftings. What Ailed Her. “You sent for me. madame?” “Yes, doctor.” “In professional capacity?" “Certainly.” “But—I frankly confess I am a little puzzled. Your tongue is clean, your pulse boats seventy-three times to the in nute, and your complexion is fresh and blooming. Can you not assist me a Id tie in the dag nos s. What are the leaikng symptoms in your trouble?” “An intense itching.” “An—itching?” “Yes, an itching to travel abroad for my health. You w 11 confer a favor by locating mv disease for the summer in Switzerland, with a running chance for a winter in Rome.—Philadelphia Call —A gentleman in Germantown. Pa., who was greatly annoyed by a colony of sparrows that had taken up their quarters in a mass of ivy covering one side of his house, got rid of them by a novel expedient One day he purchased half a pound of red pepper, and going up to the third story, opened the windows and sifted the pepper down through the ivy. The alarm of the sparrows was evinced by the haste with which they left their hiding places. Rvery bird took its departure, and his premises are now clear of them.—Philadelphia Times. —The trout is better protected than any fish in American waters. It is the pet of the Legislatures. The new law recently signed by the Governor of New York makes it illegal to use a net in trout waters. Any one can burn a net found upon the shores of a troutstream. The close season is extended from Septemb r 1st to May instead of April, and any one having trout less than six inches long in his possession can be fined. Thisjs the strictest fish law ever enacted in'the State.—Buffalo Express. —A watchmaker in Milwaukee has trained a common canaty-bird to sing faultlessly: "We won’t go home ’till morning/” As soon as the bird was born his education began, and by hearing this tune plaved to h m three or four t mes a day for eight months he acquired it perfectly; but there his aoqu rements end. He never heard another tune.—Milwaukee Sentinel.

The Farewell Symphony. In 1761 H&vdn was appointed capellmeister to Prince Esterhazy, a wealthy Austrian noble. His patron owned a beautiful country-seat, which, in addition to its natural beaut es. included two theaters for musical rehearsals, and so lovely was the spot that the Prinee arrived there early in spring and staid until the end of autumn. It made the members of the orchestra very unhappy to be so long away from their families, and Haydn, who had plenty of leisure for composition and musicians enough to perform his works was the only happy one. He loved and sympathized with the men, and at last he wrote for them his ““Farewell Symphony.” They were very home-sick, and. as the Prince showed no signs of leaving. Haydn hit uoon this novel plan to make him return. In thiB Farewell symphony the Instruments, one by one. cease playing. At its performance in the Prince’s Tneatea as soon as a mnsc'an stopped, he left the stage. The Pr noe showed his appreciation of the music and the joke by returning to Vienna and allowing the musicians to return to their homes.—Agatha Tunis, in St, Nicholas. —A model for the monument to Key 1 in Baltimore offers a shaft one hundred feet high resting on thirteen steps for the original States. One sidi of the base is to have a bronze showing the bombardment of Fort McHenry, another will have the National aims, another an insoriprion. and a fourth the arms of the city. The shaft has stars to represent the States, and is to be fluted above. On top is to stand the statue of the poet with his hand to his eyes as if uttering the woids: "Oh, say can you see?”—Baltimore American. Prof. Chas; P. Williams, Ph. D., of Philadelphia, states that there is neither morphia, opium nor minerals in Red Star Cough Cure. That was every conscientious humorist who broke off an engagement because his girl had chestnut hair.—The Hatchet. As A Cuke for Sore Throat and Conans, “ Brown's Bronchial Troches’’ have been thoroughly tested, and maintain their good reputation. Sold only in boxes. Dork & Sill keep a drug-store in Chicago. The other day a cowboy came in and inquired for “ his Knobs, the proprietor.”—Current. Tonne Men, Bead This. The Voltaio Belt Co., of Marshall, Mich., offer to send their celebrated Electro-Vol-taic Belt amTother Electric Appliances on trial for 30 days, to men (young or old) afflicted with nervous debility, loss,of vitality and all kindred troubles. Also forrheumatism,neuralgia,paralysis,and many other diseases. Complete restoration to health, vigor,and man hood guaranteed. No risk incurred, as 30 days’ trial is allowed. Write thematoncefor illustrated pamphlet, free.

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INVALIDS’ HOTELsSURGICAL INSTITUTE No. 663 Main Street, BUFFALO, N. Y* Not a Hospital, but a pleasant Remedial Home, organized with A FULL STAFF OF EIGHTEEN PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS, And exclusively devoted to the treatment of all Chronic Diseases* „. imposing Establishment was designed and erected to accommodate the large number of invalids who visit Buffalo from STIF&JopiS i13 well^as from many foreign lands, that they may avail themselves of the professional services or tno Staff of skilled specialists in medicine and surgery that compose the Faculty of this widely-celebrated institution. A FAIR AND BUSINESS-LIKE OFFER TO INVALIDS. Wo earnestly invito you to come, seo and examine for yourse?/, our institutions, appliances, advantages and success in curing chronic diseases. Have a mind of your own. I)o not listen to or heed the counsel of skeptical friends or jealous physicians, who know nothing of us, our system of treatment, or means of cure, yet who never lose an opportunity to'misrepresent and endeavor to prejudice people against us. We aro responsible to you for what wo represent, and if you come and visit us, and find that wo have misrepresented, in^ any particular* our institutions, advantages or success, we will promptly j*c£uud to yoii ...-cular% our institutions, advantages or success, we will promptly refuud to you all expense* of your trip. We court honest, sincere investigation, have no secrets, and arc only too glad to show all interested and candid people what we are doing for suffering humanity. NOT ALWAYS NECESSARY TO SEE PATIENTS.

By our original system of diagnosis, we can treat many chronic diseases just as successfully without as with a personal consultation. While we are always glad to see our Datients, and become acquainted with them, show them our institutions, and familiarize thorn with our system of treatment, yet we have not seen one person in five hundred whom we have cured. The perfect accuracy with which .ciontists are enabled to deduce the most minute particulars in their several departments, appears almost miraculous, if we view it in the light of the early ages. Take, for example, the r ieetro-magnetic telegraph, the greatest invention of the age. Is it not a marvelous degree of accuracy which enables an operator to exactly locate a fracture in a submarine cable nearly three thousand miles long? Our venerable “ clerk of tho weather ” has becomo so thoroughly familiar with the most wayward elements of nature that he can accurately predict their movements. He can sit in Washington and foretell what the weather will be in Florida or New York as well as if several hundred miles did not intervene between him and the places named. And so in all departments of modem science, what is required is the knowledge of certain signs. From these scientists deduce accurate conclusions regardless of distance. So, also, in medical science, diseases have certain unmistakable signs, or symptoms, and by reason of this fact, wo have been enabled to originate and perfect a system of determining, with the, greatest accuracy, the nature of chronic diseases, without seeing and personally SifiNS OF Disease.

examining our patients. Id recognizing diseases without • personal examination of the patient. We eiaim Jo possess no miraculous powers. We obtain our knowledge of the patient’s disease by the practical application, to the practice of medicine, of well-established principles of modern science. And it i3 to the aecuracy with which »his system hits endowed us that wo owe our almost work}-" ' ...c- reputation of skiilfully treating lingering or;Ohronio affections. This system of practice, and the marvelous success which has been attained through it, demonstrate the fact that diseases display certain phenomena, which, being subjected to 6eientilic analysis, furnish abundant and unmistakable data, to guido the judgment of the skillful practitioner aright in determining the nature of diseased conditions. The most ample resources e for treating lingering or chronic diseases, and the greatest skill, are thus placed within tho easy reach of every invalid, however distant ho or she may reside from the physicians making the treatment of such affections a specialty. Pull particulars of our original, scientific system of examining and treating patients at a distance are contained in “The People’s Common Sense medical Adviser.” By K. V. Pierce, M. D. 1000 pages and over SCO colored and other illustrations. Sent, post-paid, for $1.50. Or write and describe your symptoms, inclosing ten cents in stamps, and a complete treatise, on your particular disease, will he seat you, with our terras for treatment and all particulars. Imelcus SUGSESS.

COMMON SENSE AS APPLIED TO MEDICINE. It is a well-known fact, and one that appeals to the judgment of every thinking person, that the physician who devotes his whole tftno to the study and investigation of a certain class of diseases, must become better qualified to treat such diseases than he who attempts to treat every iil to which flesh is*heir, without giving special attention to any class of disease*. Men, in all ages of the world, who have become fataous, have devoted their lives to some special branch of science, art, or literature. By thorough organization, and subdividing the practice of medicine and surgery in this institution, every invalid is treated by a specialist—one who devotes his undivided attention to the particular class of diseases to which the case belongs. The advantage of this arrangement must be obvious. Medical science offers a vast fleid for investigation, and no physician can within the brief limits or a life-time, achieve the highest degree of success in the treatment of t very malady incident to humanity! OUR FIEIsJB OF' SUCCESS.

Recognizing the fact that no great institution dedicated exclusively to the treatment of chronic'diseases, would meet the needs of the afflicted of our land, without the most perfect, complete and extensive prov isio n for the most improved treatment of diseases of the air-passages and lungs, such as Chronic Nasal Catarrh, Laryngitis, Bronchitis, Asthma, and Consumption, we have made this branch of our institution one of the leading- Departments. Wo have every kind of useful instrument for examining the organs involved, such as rhinoscopes, laryngoscopes, stethoscopes, spirometers, etc., etc., as well as all of the most approved kinds of apparatus for the application of sprays, fumigations, atomizations, pulverizations, inhalations, and all other forms or approved medicinal applications. We publish three separate books on Nasal, Throat and Lung diseases, viz.: A Treatise on Consumption, Laryngitis and Bronchitis: price, postpaid, ten cents; A treatise on Asthma, or Phthisic, giving new and successful treatment; price, postpaid, ten cents; A treatise on Chronic Nasal Catarrh, price, postoaid, two cents. Dyspepsia, “Liver Complaint,” Obstinate Constipation, Chronic Blnrrhea, Tape-worms, and kindred affections are among those chronic diseases in the suocmsful treatment of which our specialists have attained unparalleled sucoess. Many of the dis- ..... eases affecting the liver and other organs contributing in their functions to the process of digestion, are very obscure, and are not infreqently mistaken by bot h laymen and physicians for other maladies, and treatment is employed directed to the removal of a disease wuieh does not exist. Our Complete Treatise on diseases of the Digestive Organs wiU be sent to any address on receipt of ten cents in postage stamps. BRIGHT’S DISEASE, DIABETES, and ■imiCV kindred maladies, have been very largely treated, IUUHM and cures effected in thousands of cases which had been pronounced beyond hope, Tho study and practice of chemical analysis and microscopical examination of the urine in our consideration of cases, with reference to correct diagnosis, in which our institution long ago became famous, hns naturally led to a very extensive practice M diseases of the urinary organs. Our specialists have acquired, through a Vast and varied experi. enoe, great expertness in determining the exact nature of each case, and, hence, have been successful in nicely adapting their remedies for the cure of each individual case. .The treatment of diseases of the urinary organs having constituted a prominent branch, or specialty, of our practice at the Invalids’Hotol and Surgical Institute, and, being in constant receipt of numerous inquiries for,a complete but concise work on the nature and curability of these maladies, we have published a large illustrated treatise on these diseases, which will be sect to any address on receipt of ten cents in postage stamps. SNFL AHH ATION OF” THE BLADDER, Gravel, Enlarged Prostate Gland, Retention of t rine, and kindred affections may be included among those in the cure of which our specialists have achieved marvelous success. These are fully treated of in our illustrated pamphlet on Urinary Diseases. It includes numerous testimonials from well-known people. Sent by mail for ten cents in stamps. Send for it at once. STRICTURES AND URINARY FISTULAS.—Hundreds of cases of tho worst form Diseases. Bladder Diseases. | Stricture. | of strictures, many of them greatly aggravated by the careless use of instruments in the hands or inexperienced physicians and surgeons, caus■ications. a _» urinary flstube, and other complications, annuj consult us for relief and cure. That no case of this class is too difficult for the skill of our specialists is proved by cures reported in our illustrated treatise on these maladies, to which wo refer with pride. To intrust this class of cases to physicians of small expenenoe, is a dangerous proceeding. Many a mau has been mined for life by so doing, while thousands annually lose their lives through unskillful treatment. Send particulars of your case and ten cents in postago stamps, for a large, illustrated treatise containing many testimonials. Epileptic Convulsions, or Fits, Paralysis, or Palsy, Locomotor Ataxia, St. Vitus's Dance, Insomnia, or inability to sleep, and threatened insanity. Nervous Debility, arising from o verst tidy, excesses, and other causes, and every variety or nervous affection, are treated by our specialists for these diseases with a measure of success heretofore regarded ns impossible. Bee numerous cases reported in our different illustrated pamDhlets on nervous diseases, any one of which will be sent for ten cents in postage stamps, when request for them is accompanied with a statement of a case for consultation, so that we may know which one of our Treatises to send. So alarmingly prevalent are those chronio diseases peculiar to females, and so famous have our institutions become for their euro that we were long ago obliged to create a special departWFIliPH ment, thoroughly organized, and devoted ex■iurilii. elusive.ly to the treatment of these cases. The pjiysieians and surgeons in this Department have made these delicate diseases their sole study. Hundreds are brought to our institutions from far distant States on beds, and they go home well and strong. Every case consulting our specialists, whether by letter or In person, is given the most careful and considers’ - —**— ”— " - (and we get few which have i most careful and considerate attention. Every important case 3 not already baffled the skill of all the

home physicians) has tho benefit of a full Council, composed of Biiilled specialists. Our Department ansi rooms lor ladies in the Invalids’ Hotel and Surgical Institute are so arranged as to be very private, and tree Horn the annoyances so common in other institutions. Send ten cents in postage stamps for our large Complete Treatise on Diseases of w omen, illustrated with numerous wood-cuts and colored plates. ■■I ■' PILES, FISTULA IN ANO, and other disn.. - eases aifeetiug the region of tho lower bowel, are FILL largely treated, and with marvelous success, by specialists, w ho give their w hole time to the study TllUftnQ and treatment of this class of affections. Wo never lumUflO. fail to cure pile tumors, however large. When the ■ patient can come here tor treatment, we will guarantee a cure. f ortunately for suffering humanity, a method of treatment haa been perfected and thoroughly tested in our institutions,by whioh in from six to fifteen days radical and perfect cures of the worst forms of piles are effected without causing any revere suffering, bend ten cents in stamps for our large illust rated Treatiseon Piles. Hernia (Breach), or Rupture, no matter of E “2'T. *on* standing, of whut size, or what the ago H JPT11RE I ° the patient may be (if not under four years), is liurtuiin. j speedily and radically cured ill every 'ease undertaken by our specialists, without the knife, without dependence anon trusses, without pain, aud without danger. TiiCRUf AiuIV There is no longer any need of wearing clumsy, illaUM final awkward, chafing, old trusses, which, at best, give Tnunara only partial relief, which never cure, but often inflict I nUouLo. great injury and induce inflammation and strangulation, from which thousands annually die. Unj There is no safety in depending upon any kind of truss, RUI though, no doubt, every man who has suffered the agonies Qirr of a strangulated iternia, and died, thought himself safe. OiirC. Both tho rupture and the truss keep up a mental strain and induce nervous debility and various organic weaknesses of the kidneys, bladder, and associate organs. CURES GUARANTEED In every case undertaken. Can any sufferer ask for greater inducements than these? Notwithstanding the great number of ruptures treated in the three years, past, many of them of immense size and of such a character that, no other plan of treatment could possibly have succeeded, every ease to which this perfected system of treatment has been thoroughly 'applied, lias been perfectly cured. Only a few days residence at tbe Invalids’ Hotel and Surgical institute is necessary. Abundant, references, by permission of those whom we bats cured, will be furnished to any one wishing to call upon or Write them. - An illustrated treatise on Kupture sent to any address upon receipt af tea cents. Organic weakness, nervous debility, premature decline of the manly powers, involuntary vital losses, and kindred affections, are speedily, thoroughly and permanently cured. To those acquainted with our institutions it is hardly necessary to say that the Invalids’ Hotel and , .... Surgical Institute, with the branch establishment located at No. 3 New Oxford Street, London, England, have, for many years, enjoyed the distinction of being the most largely patronized and widely celebrated institutions in the world for the treatment and cure of those affections which arise from youthful indiscretions and pernicious, solitary practices. We, many years ago, established a special Department for tho treatment of tlieso diseases, under the management of 6ome of the most skillful physicians and surgeons on our Staff, in order that all who apply to us might receive all the advantages of a lull Council of the most experienced medical men. Wp DCCCII Weoffern0 apology for devoting so much atteoMS urrtll tton to this neglected class of diseases, believing Jin Aomnev P.° condition of humanity is too wretched to merit BU UrULUai. the sympathy and best services of the noble profession to which wo belong. Many who suffer from these terrible diseases contract them innocently. Why any medical man intent on doing good, and alleviating suffering, should shun such cases, we cannot imagine. Why sffiy one should consider It otherwise than most honorallo to cure the worst cases of these diseases, we cannot understand; and yet of all tho other maladies which afflict mankind there are probably none about which physicians in general practice know so little. We fully agree with tho celebrated Dr, Bartholow, who says, “ I think it a reproach: to our profession thnt this subject has been permitted, in a measure by our own indifference, to pass into the hands of unscrupulous pretenders. Because the subject is dlsvgrecable, competent physicians are loath to pe concerned with it. The same unnecessary fastidiousness causes the treatment of this malady to bo avoided m private practice.” Wo shall, therefore, continue, as heretofore, to treat with our best consideration, sympathy, and skill, all applicants who are suffering from any of these delicate diseases. Our Complete and Illustrated Treatise on these subjects is sent to any address on receipt of ten cents in stamps. ALL CHROM&D1SEASES A SPECIALTY.—Although we have, in the preceding paragraphs, made mention of some of the special ailments to which particular attention is given by the specialists at the Invalids’ Hotel and Surgical Institute, yet tho institution abounds in skill, facilities, and apparatus for the successful treatment of every form of ebronio ailment, whether requiring for its cure medical or surgical means. A." letters of inquiry or of consultation should be addressed to WORLD’S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, 663 Main Btreet, BUFFALO. Iff. ’Jf.

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