Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 October 1884 — Page 3

The Gigantic Rafflesia.

One of the largest and most magnificent flowers in the world is the Rafflesia Arnoldi. This wonderful plant was discovered in 1818 by Sir Stamford Raffles, Governor of a settlement in Sumatra, who, on a journey of exploration through that little-known island, took with him Dr. Arnold, an ardent young naturalist, whose drawings and descriptions of this' gigantic flower were left unfinished alt his death, which occurred shortly after, but were preserved and perfected by his patron, and the memory of both is preserved by paming it Rafflesia Arnoldi. The most striking feature in this flower is its enormous size. It is composed of five roundish petals, each a foot across, of a brick-red color, blit covered with numerous irregular, yel-lowish-white swellings. The petals surround a large cup nearly a foot wide, the margin of which bears the stamens; and this cup is filled with a fleshy disk, the surface of which is everywhere covered with curved projections like miniature cows’ horns. The„ cup, when freed from its contents, would hold about twelve pints of water. The flower weighs about fifteen pounds. It is very thick, the petals being frequently an inch in thickness. Another cause of wonder to the little band of explorers who discovered it was that they could find no leaves connected with it. .It sprang from a small, leafless, creeping stem about as thick as two fingers. “Now leaves are to the plant what the stomach is to the animal:—they separate from the air the food needed for the growth of the plant. Without them there could be no wood, no flowers, no frifit, no seed. There are, however, strange plants which are actually leafless, making up for this want by using the leaves of others. Such plants are called parasites, because they feed on the nutritive juices of others. - Thrusting their roots into the living tissues of other plants, instead of into the earth, they appropriate the prepared food of these plants, and at once apply it to their own purposes for the production of stem or flower or fruit.” The Gigantic IlafHesia belongs to this class. Without a vestige of foliage, it rises at once from the long, slender stems of the wild vines of Sumatra immense climbers, which are attached like cables to the largest trees’ in the forest. The buds push through the bark like little buttons, continuing to grow until they have the aspect of largo closed cabbages, and in about three months after their first appearance the flower expands. It remains but a short time in perfection, soon beginning to decay, leaving only the central disk, which becomes a large, rough fruit, filled with multitudes of small, simple seeds.

The Pension Machine.

At the close of the war there were about 100,000 pensioners; now there are 300,000. Then there were 169 clerks in the Pension Office; now there are 1,500, Then the annual payments were about $1,500,000; now the office expenses alone are greater than that sum by $400,000, and the payments reach $60,000,000. When a great building is started the men work for weeks getting up the- derricks; thus the veterans must nowadays watch the muster-ing-in of a preliminary army of 1,500 and the preliminary expenditure of nearly $2,000,000 before they can hope to get a cent of a grateful nation’s money. The whole thing is stupendous and previously unheard of. In 1882 a Representative arose in the House-and-said: “I move that- the rules be sus pended and the pension appropriation bill be passed without debate. ” It was so done, and the bill appropriated $100,000,000 —as much as Napoleon used in going to Moscow and starting with a million men—the cost to him of Eylau and Wagram put together—more by twenty million than had been paid to all our pensioners previous to the firing on Sumter. This Pension Office is too large and its cost is excessive. Besides, all the stump-speech buncombe and flapdoodle of recent years has been pigeon-holed in its divisions. The statesmen should lend themselves honestly to the task of simplifying this pension machine. Put the Indians with the veterans, and send away some of the work of the Washington offices. More could be done at twelve agencies. The thing ih too highly centralized and too highly organized. The public treasury is no mulberry tree on which tax-eaters are to spend a luxurious existence spinning red tape.r— Chicago Current.

Bundles.

In the matter of carrying bundles: A gentleman of threescore years—a millionaire —was once clerk in a bookstore, and tells this story of the lite Jonathan Phillips, who came into the store one morning and purchased a book. After doing it up, the clerk said, “Mr. Phillips, I will send this to your house.” “No,” said he; “young man, I will tell you a secret. W hen you get to be as old as I am, you will learn that the most independent man is he who is his own servant. ” It is related of Dr. Parkman —the same who was murdered —that whenever he bought a leg of mutton he carried it home himself. On being asked why he did this, he said, “he wanted to be sure of the one he had picked out.” There is somewhere a dictum of Lord Eldon, the famous English lawyer and Judge, that a lawyer might properly carry through the streets a green bag or a fresh fish. The latter for the same reason that Dr, Parkman carried his mutton.— Every Other Saturday.

Blair as a Peacemaker.

Mr. Francis P. Blair, in December, 1864, believing that he might pave the way toward peace by visiting Richmond, proposed to go there, and the President, while he declined to give the visit an official saw no reason for preventing it. Mr. Blair, accompanied by his son Montgomery, accordingly repaired to Gen. Grant’s headquarters, before Richmond, but was not permitted to proceed further, because the Secretary of War, believing no good could be effected by "his proposed conference with the Confederate chiefs, saw fit to intimate to Gen. Grant that he did not approve of Mr. Blair’s proceeding, nor believe that it would result in any good, which Gen.

Grant very naturally interpreted aa a hint from his immediate. superior not to allow Mr. Blair to pass his lines on his waiy to Richmond. Mr. Blair thereupon perforce, to Washington.—Ben: Perley Poore.

Some Remarkable Trees.

The “Baobab Tree” is the most wonderful vegetable product of South Africa. Dr. Livingstone described it as “a great baby-looking bujlb,” which reaches an enormous and an astonishing age. It appears indeed as if nothing could kill it. The natives make a strong cord from the fibers contained in the bark. The whole of the trunk, as far as they can reach, is consequently barked, which. With any other tree, would cause its death; but no external injury, not even fire, can destroy this,tree from without; nor can any injury be done from within, as it is quite common to find the tree hollow. Dr. Livingstone himself spent the night in one, which was large enough to hold twenty men. Even cutting down does not exterminate it, and it continues to grow in length after it is lying on the ground. “The Tree of the Thousand Images,” seen by Father Hue in his journey to Thibet, has its leaves and bark covered with well-defined characters of the Thibetan alphabet. It appeared to MM. Hue and Gabettobe of great age, and is said by the inhabitants of the country to be the only one of its kind known"there. According to the account given by these travelers, the letters would appear to be formed of the veins of the leaves. The resemblance to Thibetan characters led them to suspect fraud; but, after repeated observa? tions, they came to the conclusion that no fraud existed. On the Island of Ceylon is a singular tree called “Eve’s Apple-Tree.” The flower of this extraordinary production is said to emit a fine scent. The color of the fruit, which hangs from, the branches in a very peculiar and striking manner, is very beautiful, being orange on the ou side, and a deep crimson within; the fruit itself presenting the appearance of having had a piece bitten out of it. This circumstance, together with the fact of its being a deadly. poison, led the Mohammedans, on their first discovery of Ceylon —which they assigned as the site of Paradise —to represent it as the forbidden fruit of the Garden of Eden; for, though most tempting in appearance, it had been impressed—such was their id the mark of Eve’s having bitten it, to warn men from meddling with a substance possessing such noxious qualities.

Some Valuable Timbers.

The tupelo gum and the willow oak are timbers that are destined to a commercial value never until recently dreamed of. A gentleman residing in Mississippi, who has tested them thoroughly, says the first variety is almost as soft and light as the cork of commerce, and is the whitest timber in the valley. It is extremely light and can not be sjplit, and at the same time it is very tough and tenacious and will bear a,very heavy strain. It will, some day. soon, be used principally for buckets, bowls, pitchers, and trays; also for oxyokes, and for almost all kinds of water vessels. For bread-trays it is the finest in the world. The wood grows among the Dypress trees, and is far more abundant, and floatslike cork. The water or willow oak is second only to the live oak, and is almost as evergreen ; it takes the coldest weather to make it shed its leaves, and it is almost as hard -when seasoned as the live oak, and for the rim and spokes of wheels it has no superior. For ship-building it is almost equal to the live oak. “I have tested the crushing capacity of this wood,” this Mississippian says, “and also the transverse strength, and .it is one-third stronger than any white, poste red or black oak, and only oneeightieth less than live oak. And yet this wood has no market value. Memphis (Tenn.) Appeal.

Tattooing Among Alaska Indians.

A man who had passed much time trapping and hunting in Alaska says: “Although tho Yukon Indians have abandoned many of their old customs, under the teaching of occasional missionaries, all of them still keep to the queer habit of tattooing. The way they do this is different from any I ever saw or heard of. Instead of pricking the stuff in with sharpened bones or needles, they make a paste out of charcoal and grease, soak a thread in it, punch a needle through the flesh so that it comes out at a different hole from the on e where it entered, and then draw the thread through under the skin. The operation is painful, for the flesh swells up and looks very much inflamed. Men tattoo only their hands and wrists with pictures of the nobler animals or fish, but the women tattoo their faces also. These latter begin the process when they are quite young, making“birds, turtles, or some other insignificant things on their hands and wrists, while they draw lines of different kinds on their chins and the lower part of their cheeks. As a rule this tattooing is done entirely in blue, but now and then there is an Indian who has dotted red spots through the blue.”

Birds Which Soothe the Sea.

“ Often, while sailing among the South Sea Islands, 1 have passed flocks of birds, principally teres and whalebirds, resting, in vast numbers, on the sea. It is remarkable that, however rough the sea may be at the time, yet, where the birds rest there is not a ripple to disturb them. This must be caused by oil, but whether it is purposely deposited by the birds with the intention of quieting the water or whether they do so from natural causes is a question the answer to which I think would interest many of our readers.—Cor. Manchester Courier. In the Island of Goa, near Bombay, there is a singular vegetable called “the sorrowful tree,” Because it only flourishes in the night. At sunset no flowers are to be seen, and yet after half an hour the tree is full of them. They yield a sweet smell, but the sun no sooner begins to shine upon them than some of them fall off, and others close up; and others continue flowering in the night during rue whole year?

Important Decision Affecting TradeMarks.

In the suit of The Charles A.Vogeler Company, of Baltimorei, Maryland, U. S. A., against Parrott & Co., of London, England, the Court of Appeals has granted plaintiffs a perpetual injunction with costs. The: action, whiefi grew out of an alleged infringement of plaintiff’s well known trademark. St. Jacobs Cfi, was originally heard in the High Court of Justice, where Vice-Chancellor Bacon, without going into the merits of the case, eon? sidered it was one that should go before the Comptroller of Trade-Marks. From this opinion The Charles A. Vogeler Company appealed, claiming that they were being injured by the goods of the defendants, entitled St. Davids Oil, being mistaken for theirs, and that while they had taken steps to bring a case before the Comptroller of Trade-Marks, months would elapse before a decision could be obtained, and, as their business would be seriously injured by such delay, a restraining order should be granted at once. The result of the appeal was that a perpetual injunction was made,i with costs. The proceedings before the Comptroller have been abandoned by the defendants, and the Baltimore house has thus achieved a double Victory. By the order of the Court of Appeal, Parrott & Co. and their agents are perpetually restrained from using the term “St. Davids Oil,” or any similar term, as well as the words “The Great German Remedy,” and any words or marks similar to those used by The Charles A. Vogeler Company in connection with their St. Jacobs Oil. The progress of this suit has, been watched with interest by the mercantile and manufacturing community of Great Britain where thousands of trademarks of almost incalculable value are owned. It was shown by the evidence that plaintiffs had sold during the past Few years over seven.million bottles of St. Jabobs Oil, and had expended as high as five hundred thousand dollars in a single year for advertising throughout the world. Their success in this suit is regarded with great satisfaction in business circles. Eminent English and American legal talent figured in the case. The counsel for The Charles A. Vogeler Company, of which latter Mr. H. D. Umbstaetter was personally present, were Queen’s Counsel Theodore Aston, assisted by John Cutler and Theodore Mac Kenna, of London, Rowland Cox, of New York, and Gen. William Henry Browne, of Washington, D. 0.

Got His Answer.

The absence of ordinary curiosity from the Arabs and their ingenious stupidity often perplex a scholar traveling among them and anxious to acquire their idioms. Prof. Palmer, while in the Desert of Sinai, wished to know the form of the interrogative particle “when.” Chancing to be walking with an intelligent Arab, the Professor asked: “Supposing you were to meet a man with an ibex on his shoulder, how should you ask him when he shot it?” “I shouldn’t ask him at all,” he replied, “because I shouldn’t care” “But if you did care, w hat should you say to him?” “What should I say to him ? Why, I should say, ‘Good-morning!’ ” The persistent Professor, not to be baffled, walked a few moments in silence and then said: “Saleh, I saw your wife. ” “When?” said the startled Arab. And down went the word in the Professor’s note-book.

Science Against the Almighty.

Krupp is making guns in Germany which throw red-hot stoves through the air seven or eight miles, but the man is born who will kill him with a sinal'l pill or pea of some kind. The wonders of science, whibh were expected to supplant religious systems in some way, nave, up to this time, merely supplanted the usual common sense of mankind. They have destroyed what was the last Work of God himself to execute, man and woman.— Gath’s New York letter. p

Both the Mason & Hamlin organs and pianos excel chieiiy in that which is the chief excellence in any musical instrument, quality t>f tm,e. Other things, though important, are much less so than this. An instrument with unmusical tones cannot be a good musical instrument. Yet all are not good judges of speh a matter. An inferior quality of tone will often please the uncultivated ear best, at first, though time and use will reveal the superiority of really good tone. Hence in selecting an organ it is safer to choose one from a maker whose reputation is thoroughly established, and whose productions are acknowledged to have superlative excellence, especially in this chief thing.— Boston Journal.

IThe Society of Friends reports a total membership in this country of about 75,000, and in Great Britain and Ireland about 18,000. They carry on considerable work. Among the various Indian tribes they have twentyfive Friends engaged in teaching, and iu the foreign field are doing a noble service They are sustaining thirteen missionaries in Madagascar, five in India, and a medical mission in Turkey under the care of the London Yearly Meeting. In S;. ria they have two stations, Burmana and Mount Lebanon, with training home for boys and girls, three Sabbath-schools and nine day schools. At Ramallah, near Jerusalem, they have seven schools. These are, under the care of thq New England and London Yearly Meeting.

Horsford’s Acid Phosphate,

UNEQUALED. Dr. R. M. Alexander, Fannettsburgh. Pa., says: “ I think Horsfordls’ Acid Phosphate is not equaled in any other preparation of phosphorus.” A Connecticut man had to entertain hip own mother and his wife’s rrotner tor a week at the same time, and he says is now ready to Join any show as a liontamer. - X It is truly wonderful to see how the name of Mrs. Pinkham is a household .word among the wives and mothers of our land. A’ike in the luxurious homes of our cities and in the humble cabins of the remote frontier one woman’s deeds have borno their kindly fruit in health for others. The breeches of promise, young man, are the ones you haven’t paid for yet. t3?"IT is a well-known fact! In the Diamond Dyes more coloring is given than in any known Dyes, and they give faster and more brilliant colors. ICe. at all druggists’. They are a great success. Wells, Richardson & Co., Burlington. Vt. •

Consumption.

Notwithstanding the great number. who I yejriy succumb to th s t< rr.bie and firt+ldisCaso, wh ph is daily wincing its fatal co 18 • around thousands who are i.nconsdious of i s •deadly presence, J r. Pierce’s "Gillen Me li- | cal zDi-cd. ery” will cleanse and purify the blool of sorpfulbua im ; tiritles.i and cure tubercular consumpt on (which is only scrof--ulousdiseasecf the lungsi. Send three lettsrl stamps an.l get Ur. I icr. e s conpplete treatise j on consuirfpiion and kin Ired aflistiuns with i numerous testimonials of cures. Address [ World's Dispensary Me Heal- Assobiat on, f Butlalo. N. Y. The man who lives too fast is bound to die too quick.— New Or<<"in I’tcatLinv p. -fiA:

Rupture Cured

permiui' ntiy or no pay. Our new andsure--4 cure method of treating rupture. wit out the knife,enables us toguar. nteeacure. Trus es can be thrown away at last. Send two letter stumps for references, pamphkt and terms. World’s Dispensary Medical Association, Buffalo, N. Y. Trvth Is hardly §o plentiful as fiction.— AilmiiSilu - Trarrlrr.

Do Not Be Discouraged.

Even if you have tried m-ny remedies for yowkiilney d! seate~or Li ver wrtnpiatntwitir-~ out success, it is no reason why you should think your disorder incurable. The.taost incases readdy yield to the poteilt virtues of Kidney-Wort. It is a purely vegetable compound which acts on the Kidneys, Liver, and Howels at the saute time, and thus eledi , .S'-> the whole system. lon t wait, but get a package to-day and eure ’ourself. A good fit—a fit of laughter.— New York Commercial Advertiser. Pure Cod-Liver Oil, mado from selected livers on the sea shore, by Caswell, Hazard < & Co., New York. It is absolutely pure and sweet. Patients who have once taken it prefer it to all others. Physicianshave decided it superior to any of the other oils in market. Things have come to such a pass, remarks the Philadeli liia.. (Jail,, that evcsnAhe milk of human kindnes - is ! adly Adulterated. Chapped Hands, Face. Pimples and rough Skin, cured by using Jumper T vr Soap, made by Caswell, H azard & Co.. New York.

Tll'-t most appropriate pastry for ,a freehrnctr cent trtvr^sponge - cake.—PfrttWitp/Hd-

A Severe Winter.

All of the noted weather prophets predict a long and severe, winter. -Nothing a ids more to the com t orts of a homo on cold winter evenings than plenty of good reading matter, and so much cannot be obtained for so little expense in any other manner as by subscribing tor the best story paper in the West. Each number contains not less than eight stories, some complete and others continued, writ on by first-class authors, and mailed to any address one year for the s..in of one dollar. Sample copies of the paper referred to will be mailed free to all who send the r name and address to Tub Chicago Ledger, Chicago, 111.

Item.

Geo. E. Brown & Co., Aurora. 111., at tlie Illinois. State Fair, at 'Chicago, won the fob lowing prizes on their Holsteins: First on cows .4 years qll and over, with Louvaine, H. H. B. 7S(>: IsLon cows 3 years, with Susie Clay, H. H. B. 15r0; Ist on heifers. 2 years, with Tyrolia, H. H. B. 5901: 2d on yearling heifer?, with Alpena, H. H. B. 3016, out Of Louvaine, 788, by Byron, 1101; Island 2d on heifers tinder 1 year ; Ist on bull, Sir Joseph, out of Minerva 11.. by Byron, 1101; 2d on yearling bull, Van Tiel, imported the last of August,’ 1884. Honors enough for one show. Their new importations of over 300 are doing finely.

An Undoubted Blessing.

About thirty years ago, a prominent physician by the name of Dr. William Ha'l discovered, or produced afterlongexperimental research, a remedy for diseases of the throat, chest, and lungs, which was of such wonderful efficacy that it soon gained a Wide reputation in this country. The name of the medicine is Dr. Wm. Hall’s Balsam for the Lungs, and may be safely relied on as a speedy and positive cure for coughs, colds, sore throat, etc.

Young Men, Read This.

The Voltaic Belt Cd., of Marshall, Mich., oil er to send their celebrated Electro-Vol-rAic Bei.t and other Electric Appliances oh trial for thirty days, to men (young or o!d> afflicted with nervous debility, loss of vitality and riiaiihood, and all kindred troubles. Also for rheumatism, neuralgia, pa ralysis, and many other diseases. o toration to health, vigor, and manhood paranteed. No risk is incurred, as thirty days’ trial is allowed. Write them at once or illnstrnicd namnhlet, free.

They Will Surely Find You.

They are looking for you everywhere. Drafts of air in unexpected places, goinz from hot roomsfo-eeol ones r aireiessness in changing clothing:—ln short anything which ends in a “common cold in the head ” Unless arrested this kind of co.d becomes seated in the mucous membrane of the head. Then it is Catarrh. Jin any and all its sta >«« this disease always yields to Ely’s Cream Balm. Applied to the nostrils with the finger. Safe agreeable,- certain. Price 50 cents.

Important.

When you visit or leave New York City, save Baggage Express ige and Carriage Hire, and stay at ttie Grand Union Hotel, opjxisite Grand Central Depot: fiOO elegant rooms fitted up at a cost of one million dollars, reduced to $1 and upwards per day. European plan. Elevator, Restaurant supplied with the best. Horse cabs, stage, and elevated railroad to all depots. Familieslean jive better for less money at the Grand Union than at any iirst-class hotel in the city.

"Put up” at the Gault House.

’l'lie business man or tourjst will find firstclass accommodations at the low price of $2 and $2.50 per day at the Gault House, Chicago, corner Clinton and Madison streets. This far-famed hotel is located in the center of the city, only one block from the Union Depot. Elevator; all appointments first-class. H. W. Hoyt, Proprietor.

A Wonderful Remedy.

Compound - Ox; gen, the Vitalizing Treatmen'tor chronic disea e . introduced to the public by Drs. Starkey A Paleh, 1109 Girard St.. Phila., is effecting wonderful cures in Consumption, Neuralg a, Cata rh, Rheumatism, etc. Thousands have teen relieved from suffering, and hundreds saved from death, by this new discovery. Send for their pamphlet.

Sleepless night and days of untold agony are the unhappy lot of the victim of rheumatism or neuralgia. So great was the affliction of L. B. White, of North Granville, N. Y., that one of his limbs was shortened an inch. He began uting Athlophoros a few months ago, and now he looks like a new man. For more than two months, he says, he has been entirely free from pain. Price, $1 jer bottle, if your druggist hasn’t it, send to Athlophoros Co., 112 Wall St., N. Y.

Thousands upon thousands of bottles of Carbolme, a deodorized extract of petroleum, have been sold, and from all over the land cOmes one universal cry, “ Carboline, as now improved and perfected, is the best hair re--torer ever used.” Sold by all druggists. Skinny Men. —“Wells’ Health Rencwer”restores health and vigor.curee Dyspepsia, Impotence.fl. The increasing safes of Piso’s Cure attest its claim as tho best cough remedy. - “Rough on Toothache.”—Ask for it. Instant relief,” quick cure. 15c. Druggists. Piso’s Remedy for Catarrh is a certain cure for that very obnoxious disease. “Rough on Pain” Porous Plaster, for Backache, Pains in the Chest, Rheumatism. 25c. Ir afflicted with Sore Eyes, use Dr. Isaac Thompson’s Eye Water. Druggists sell it. 25c. “Roughon Corns.”—lsc. Ask for it. Complete cure, hard or soft corns, warts, bunions.

“A Perfect Flood of Sunshine"

will fill the heart of tifery suffering woman it she will only persist in the use of Dr. Pierce's "Favorite Prescription." It will cure the mb’t excruciating periodical pains, ,’ and r -lleve you of all irregularities and give healthy agtlon. • It will positively cure. Interna! indammat.'on and ulceration, misplacement, arid all kindred disorders. Pr.ce reduced to one dollar. By druggists. .[ No. Alfiird. jwo don’t know why they call it the quarter deck, unless it is becanse the capttin wa ks back and fro and two and fourth on it.—• Hawkeye.

DR. JOHN BULL’S Smiffi’sTmicSyniß FOR THE CURE OF FEVER and AGUE Or CHILLS and FEVER, AND ALL MALARIAL DISEASES The proprietor of this celebrated medicine justly claims for it a superiority over all remedies ever offered to the public for the SAFE, CERTAIM, SPEEDY and PERMANENT cure of Ague and Fever, or Chills and Fever, whether of short or long .tending. He refers to the entire Western and Southern country to bear him testimony to the truth of the assertion that in no cbm whatever will it fail to cure if the direction. are strictly followed end carried out. In a great many case, a .ingle dose has been sufficient for a cure, and whole families have been cured by a single bottle, with a perfect restoration of the general health. It is, however, prudent, and in every caw more certain to cure, if its use is continued in smaller doses for a week or two after the disease has been checked, more especially in difficult and long-standing oases. Usually this medicine will not require any aid to keep the bowels in good order. Should the patient, however, require a cathartic medicine, after having taken three or four doses of the Tonio, a single dose of BULL’S VEGETABLE FAMILY PILLS will be sufficient. BULL’S SARSAPARILLA is the old and reliable remedy for impurities of the blood an<L Scrofulous affections—the King of Blood Purifiers. DR. JOHN BULL’S VEGETABLE WORM DESTROYER is prepared in the form of candy drops, attractive to tho sight and pleasant to the taste. DR. JOHN BULL’S SMITH’S TONIC SYRUP, BULL’S SARSAPARILLA, BULL’S WORM DESTROYER, The Popular Remedies of the Day. Principal OMce, 831 Main St., LOUISVILLE. KT, Any man or woman making under JSO weekly, send at once for circulars; .100 monthly guaranteed good workers. Kingston k C0..20 LaSalle St.,Chicago. A’ GENTS WANTED for the ben and fantest-selling Pictorial Books and Bibles. Prices reduced 88 pe> cent. National Publishing Co- Chicago, 111. «□!! IM and YVHISKY HABITS cured Vr IWIVI at home without pain. Book of particulars sent free. B.M. WooLLKY. M.D., Atlanta, Ga WO PATENT, NO PAY! rjSIrMI N R.S.& A. P. LACEY. Patent ■ Stl ■ tell I W Attorneys,Washington.D.C. Full instructions and Hand-Book of Patents sent free. ARREST!! rr ALL DISEASES OF THE ffZ THROAT AND LUNGS BY THE TIMELY USE OF ALLEN'S LUNG BALSAM STRICTLY PURE, Harmless* to the most Delicate I By its faithful use CONSUMPTION HAS BEEN CURED when other Remedies and Physicians have failed to effect a cure. Jeremiah Wright,of Marion County,W.Va., writes us that his wife had Pulmonary Consumption, and was pronounced incurable by their physician, when the use of Allen’s Lung B -Isatn entirely cured her. He writes that he and his neighbors think it Hu-in-st m'.-didne in the world. . Wm. C. Diodes, Merchant of Bowling Green. Va.. writes, April 4th, 1831, ihat lie wants us to know that the Lung Balsam has Cured his Mother orCmesumption, afte.r the physician had given her up as incurable. He says others knowing her case have taken the Balsam and been cured; he th.like all so afflicted should give it a trial. Dr. Meredith, Dentist of Cincinnati, was thought to be in the last Stages or Consumption, and was induced by his friends to try Alien’s Lung Balsam after the formula was shown him. We have his letter that it at once cured his cough and that he was able to resume his practice. Wm. A.*GhahaM k Co., Wholesale Druggists, ZanesviHe, Ohio, write us of the effre of Mathias Freeman, a well-known citizen, who had been afflicted with Bronchitis in its worst form for twelve years. The Lung'Balsam cured him, as it has many others, of Bronchitis. It is harmless to the most delicate child I It contains no Opium io any form! lieeommended by Physicians, Ministers and Nurses. In fact, by everybody who has given it a good trial. It Never Fails to Bring Relief. Call for Allen’s Lung Balsam and shun the use of all remedies without merit and an established reputation. As an Expectorant it has no Equal! SOLD BY ALL MEDICINE DEALERS. Remarkable Recover) Of a Lady of MillvUle, N. J., Who Was Pronounced Beyond Hope of Recovery—How It Was Accomplished. Mrs. 3. C. Dougherty says: “I had been a sufferer from Dyspepsia from the time I was 18 years old. I had consulted various physicians and been under their treatment during most of the time, but finding no relief, had given up in despair of ever having my health restored. A friend recommended Dr. DAVID KENNEDY’S FAVORITE REMEDY, which I tried, and have been cured. It’s the best medicine I ever knew of, and worthy of the greatest confidence,* The above is but one of the hundred facts which prove that Dr. DAVID KENNEDY'S FAVORITE REMEDY is without an equal as a cure for diseases peculiar to females. But, if the reader desires more evidence, read the following proof from Mrs. Carrie Key, the wife of Sergeant Key, Co. C, 2d N. J. Regt, who says, under date of March 1,1881: “Two years ago my husband came home in the spring from Virginia, where he had been In charge of a schooner. He was taken down with Malarial fever. We were both sick with it. After consulting ourfamily physician and finding no permanent relief, we tried your FAVORITE REMEDY, and I can say that it completely cured us Of malaria, and is the best medicine of its kind I ever heard of.” DR. KENNEDY’S FAVORITE REMEDY Is a positive cure for all diseases of the Blood, and habitual Constipation. As proof of it, E.J. Sears, of Vineland, says, under date of March 2-. “I have used Dr. KENNEDY’S f AVORITE REMEDY, and I am willing to acknowledge it the best medicine in the world for the bowels I ever used, and FAVOBITE REMEDY is a most excellent preparation for the Blood.” These are facts which can but convince the most skeptical that Dr. DAVID KFNNFDYB FAVORITE REMEDY is an honest preparation which no family should be without. It is the result of the scientific knowledge of medicine attained only by the years of experience of an educated physician. 11 is a positive care for Malaria, Kidney and Liter IHeeaeee, and all disease; peculiar to females. Price >1 per bottle. Percheron Honei.-All stock registered in French and American Stud Books. 4W bend for circular. GEO. w. STUBBLEFIELD k CO, Bloomington. DI.

- Li. I llll.i ■ • . LYDIA I. MNKHAM’ff .w VEGETABLE COMPOUND • •••MAPoernTEcuEElroE*** • in thM * • Weakaeasea SO eeaa«i‘ • *•••••*• oar beat * FMUWPOFULkTIOX.* • • / MMtHaßaaAfOlwlHHaaebm. 1 •Re jmrpeee <■ eoMf for the legittmaU healinf of dileaM and the relief of pain, and that it doee ell it olaimeto do, thoueande of ladia» oan gladly testify. • • It will ears entirely all Ovarian troubles, faflammation sad L’Deration, Fsllina and DiptonoenU, and consequent Spinal Weaknew. and is particularly adapted to the Change of life. ••••••>•>•• • e«e •It removes Faintness, Flatulency, destroy sail craving for stimulants, and relieves Weakness of the StomacK. It cures Bloating, Headaches, Nervous Prostration. General Debility, Sleepleasneas, DVpressloa and Indi ge-tlon. That reellngof bearing down, canriag pain, and backache, Is always permanently cured by Its use. • Send stamp to Lynn, Mass., for pamphlet. Letters of In-jun^confldentlanyauwered. For eahiatdraqgiMe. MASON (ScHAMLIN io ° •3« T ° STYLES VIIVIMIIV D9OO. HIGHEST HONORS AT ALL GREAT WORLD’S EXHIBITIONS FOR SEVENTEEN YEARS. Only American Organs Awarded such at any. For Cash, Easy Payments or Rented. Upright Pianos presenting very highest excellence yet attained in such instruments; adding to all previous improvements one of greater value than any; securing most pure, refined, musics) tones and increased durability; especially avoiding liability to get out of tune, nfustrated Catalogue. free. MASON A HAMLIN ORGAN AMD PIANO CO., Boston, 154 Tremont St.; N. York. 46 E. 14th St.; Chicago, 140 Wabash Av. areVou CONSTIPATED? If you are bilious, dyspeptic _ or constipated, a few bottles of Hops and Malt Bitters will cure you as they have many others. An occasional use of Hops and Malt Bitters gives tone to the blood, strengthens the nerves and promotes perfect digestion. Do not be persuaded to try something else, said to be just as good, but get the genuine. For sale by all dealers. HOPS &. MALT BITTERS CO., SEA RC ¥, A RK.—Farms and Fruit Lauds for (ale. Correspondence solicited. C.H.Bieeett. Real Est Ag't. Don’t Send Us Money ..Hartford, Ct LC I Ril Telegraphy,or Short-Rand and Type LAnn Writing Here. Situations furnished. Address VALENTINE BROS.. Janesville. Wis, ■■■■■MMMMOMMMBNMH Sure rel lef . o nnnf ( KiDDER'B ttuj as 2 H— r - hSy, , 31111 'iltff ru w, L Si ’ e ZSrMt Wwt«rn M W 0* Set the Genuine. Sold Everwwhera. PRINTERS! Or persons of any profession who contemplate establishing newspaper printing offices In Nebraska or Dakota should communicate with Tax Sioux Cm Newspapeb Ukioh, No. 218 Douglas street, Sioux City, lowa, and save money. The Piters’Guide is issued Sept, and March, each year: 224 pages, 8J x 11| inches, with over 3,3ooillustrations — a whole picture gallery. Gives wholesale prices direct to coruumers on all goods for personal or family use. Tells how to order, and gives exact MF cost of everything you use, drink, eat, wear, or have fun with. These invaluable books contain information gleaned from the markets of the world. We will mail a cops Fret! to any address upon receipt of the postage—B cents. Let us hear from you. Respectfully, MONTGOMERY WARD & CO. g»? A gag W«b—h Aveuue, Chteugu. UL Geo. E. Brown & Co. AURORA, ILL. CLEVELAND BAY k ENGLISH DRAFT HORSES, Anglesea and Exmoor POMES. Also cattle. WasSim'rOO head to (elec* from, posed of prize winners at fairs in Europe and VaEHEagn niteu States. We keep our supplied with the specimens that aides us tp procure from the most noted breeding districts in England and Holland. Prices reasonable and terms liberal. gy.Send for Illustrated Catalogue No. 15. gir-MxNTiox this FAPEB—ftg ■Ft?P£*AA4 QA\ 1 disease of the muDrY*-*'. vvE cons membrane, it ■ csST'ATw HrAnl msititstos its strongW hold in the head. From VtiaxzrrvrnlMm M tbiß Point it sends F H/YF t-VER as M forth a poisonous virus along the membranous linings and through / wAz the digestive organs, Hr S corrupting the biood and producing other troublesome and dauI k " u symptoms. Hlp<S Crwsm Balm is a this, disease, and can HAY-FEVER =• cents by mail, registered. Sample bottle, by mail, 1> cents. ELY BROTHERS, Druggists. Owego. N. Y. ffIETiFFiN Rock Drilling 4 MACHINERY! A For Horse or Steam Power M Hundreds of the best men In SO States K and Territories use it and will have no M other I «| RELIABLE! DURABLE! SIMPLE!} Established over 35 years,we have ampto ■ facilities to fill orders promptly, and to satisfaction of our customers. Cata-gEI a NYMAM, TtiMa, OMaT B mu WMH All Beat (tough Syrup. Tastes good. M Use In time. Sold by draggista. H N~L h, WWyTWTNFT"** r "In '/ B.N.U. No. 48-64. Inwrittag to Advertisers, pleaso do not fell lo mention this paper. Advertisers like to know-rhat mediums pay tNous beet.