Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 January 1885 — Page 3

BURYING A CANNIBAL KING.

.Ifce BnM Baau Saoriflece of the Fetish Priests of the Gold Coast. A returned missionary from the Afri--1 geld coast tells some woeful stories tsf the cruelties of human sacrifice prac--1,-ticed by the fetish priests. The disposition of these people is so mild it is a mystery hew they can indulge in the practice of such cruelties, such as human eaorifices, for which they have be* come famous. The missionaries believe that but for the fetish priests,- who ar,e exceedingly shrewd and who have M strong: interest in perpetuating these bloody sacrifices, os their power is based on them, the country could be easily civilised. Under the reign of Gnezo, the late King of Dahomey, human sacrifices had becopie comparatively rare; but his successor, Grerv, a slave to the fetish priests, has revived them, and now they are practiced with greater cruelty than ever. The number of slaves who annually perish in this way is estimated at several hundreds. The King of Dahomey is, as is know, the most ferocious and powerful ruler in the wholeSegion. During ten mouths of the year he makes incursions into the neighboring territories, capturing a large number of slaves. In this work he is chiefly assisted by his two celebrated regiments of Amazons. The prisoners taken during these expeditions are divided into three classes. One class is sold to the slave merchants of the interior; another, chiefly woman, are fattened and sold to butcher, who, revolting as til© faot may be, even to relate, openly sell human flesh in their shops. The third class is reserved for the religious sacrifice. At the season of the “grand customs" victims are sacrificed in the fetish forest. On the ninth day after the installment of a new king, he and his suite proceeded by his fetish priests, moved in procession to the saored wood where the grave of the late king had been dug. The sacrifice began. Seven slaves were killed and their blood mixed with earth to form a kind of a plaster witli which the grave was lined. The heads of the seven victims, with food of all kinds, were deposited at the bottom. The body es the king was next lowered into the grave. Then were seen approaching nine of his women, drapped in their brightest colored garments and purposeljr intoxicated with “tafin,” or rum. Believing themselves to be the "objects of an ovation they cast smiles on every side as they passed through the throng. On reaching the edge of the open grave they were made to kneel, and before they had any suspicion were stunned by a blow on the head and flung, still alive, upon the body of their royal spouse. Earth was then thrown in to cover the living and dead. The sacrifices to the gods are marked by greater and more varied refinements of cruelty. The shrines resemble dog-houses—appropriate dwellings for their idols, which are hideouslooking monsters. These ceremonies begin with a dance. In front of the shrine a circle is formed by the leaders of the people sitting down, while the rude multitude remain standing. Holding a tnft of human hair in his hand, a priest dances in the center, the circle uttering savage cries, clapping their hand and playing wild instruments resembling Bells, tambovines and cymbals. During the night the fetish priests provide the gods with one or more victims. The most common form of sacrifice to Ognn, the god of war, is to behead the human offering .add nail the body upside down to a tree, the head plaeed about the feet. At another time a young tree is stripped of its branches, bent down by means of a rone, and so held by a kind of trigger. With the exception of the head the victim is inclosed in a wickerwork globe and suspended, head downward, or his head is inc%sed in the stumps of the leaves which form the crown of the palm tree. The priest loosens the rope, the tree springs back and the victim is left swinging in the air. Binds es prey soon dispose of the body.

Strange Geological Formations.

Capt €L E. Dutton, of tbe Washington Geological Survey, hg£ been studying some remarkable relics of ancient volcanic action in the northwestern portions,of New Mexico. They consist of a multitude of needle-like peaks rising out es the brood valley bottoms to altitudes varying from 1,000 to 2,000 feet. They are composed of black basaltic lava, having a beautiful columnar structure like the basalt of the Giant’s Causeway. They are remnants of lava which once rose up ont of the earth through the strata and congealed in the volcanio pipes or vents. In later periods the strata which inclosed them have been dissolved away and removed by the geueral erosion of the country, leaving these basaltio cores projecting many hundreds of feet in the air, as casts the yolcanic pipes or passages through which the anoient towers rose to the surface. York Sun.

Pie on the Massachusetts Escutcheon.

All Boston eatetli of the pie. The broker and hanker climb the case stool and belt their pie and coffee. The shop-girl carries in her lunch-box from hex 1 frowsy boarding-house a triangle of pie. The newsboy hath his pie in his mind as he trudges through the storm Our Supreme Court Judges eat pie with gust*. Pie is the masterpiece of New England home cookery. In Maine they still make.those deep apple pieces —clover-flavored, generous, ampte’pies that one can make a flavorous meal of. The Indian in our Massachusetts coat-of-orms holds a pie-knife in his hand, and our State motto, is properly translated, reads.: “We will have a piece of pie if we have to light for it”— BoutonCorrespondence.

Wasn’t Flirting.

“My dear," said a Mormon wife to her husband, “I should think that you would be ashamed of yourself, flirting with Mi'S R., as you did to-day.” “Flirting with her?” he replied in astonishment. “Why, we have been engaged for move than three months. It’s all over town." “If you are engaged to her. I suppose it’s all right. When does tbe happy event occur scm Francisco Argonaut "> On the day of victory no wearinlss is fell — Arabic proverb. . Af'* . ... V ' : ?! 7 "

Irrepressible Music.

In the country where wo were brought up there was no great prolusion of musical instruments. We remember the first time we ever saw a music box. It Vas at the day school, and was brought by one of the boys. We thought the machine the most wonderful thing we had ever seen or heard But it was too elaborate for the boys’ management Sometimes we oould not get it going. At other times, under our manipulation, it would start playing a tune and we could not stop it Of course, only in the hours of nooning or of recess did we ordinarily dare to handle. But one day the fortunate owner of the music box let us have it in our desk during the school hours. Over - tempted, we forgot our geography and arithmetic and went into a curious examination of the music box. It never seemed so wondrous sb then; but while we were busy among its cogs and springs and oylinders, tha pesky thing, started to play “Yankee Doodle.” We laid hold and tried to put down the brakes, but we bad touched something that had set it going, and go it would. We put down the lid of the desk and plunged into our arithmetic, furiously reciting to ourselves, “twice eight are Bixteeu, twice twelve are twenty-four.” But the schoolmaster, with irate countenance, (demanded, “who is making that noise?” The more complete silence of the school made the musio-box seem more resonant. By this time the cylinder had reached another tune, “Cornin’ thro’ the Rye,’’ and we felt ourselves cornin’ thro’ the breakers. All the boys looking innocent, the schoolmaster came down to make the tour of the desks. He had examined but three or four when he struck upon ours and seized the music box and held it above our beads in triumph and wrath. Without the usual ten days’ notice we were subpoenaed to appear immediately before the master. The rattan was brought out and we were peremptorily asked to present the palm of onr hand. €ow the sensation produoed by a rattan depends entirely upon which e-'d of it yon come in contact. The end offered to us was not at all attractive. We could not for some time make up our mind to take hold of the wrong end of it. We put out our hand again and again, but every time before the rattan came down we changed our mind and put our hand behind ns; but at last we submitted, and the music, instead of being instrumental, became vocal. We- felt, however, that we Grid, not deserve being whipped sic box. . That day we learned a lesson not found either in geography or arithmetic, that is, that some people have a music-box about them that they cannot manage. You sit in churoh for an hour and a half profoundly interested in the religious services, but your child seems possessed with some uneasy spirit. He wiggles and twists, and tears a leaf out of the psalm book, and tickles his brother with a feather, and drops his penny, and chncklcs out lond to the disturbance of the people in that neighborhood, and seems chuck full of mischief. What is the matter with him? Is he bad ? No. He has an exuberance of feeling. He is full of skip and rollicking and glee. He has under his vest, or in his shoe, a musicbox which he cannot control and for which he is net responsible. With a sense of the ludiorons, and in buoyancy of feeling, you have sometimes been sitting amid circumstances that demanded gravity. Bat a mirthful memory or a grotesque appearance has wrought upon you nntil it lias seemed you must laugh or die. You tried to think of all the solemn and terrible things you have ever heard of. You bit your lin. You pinched yourself unmercifully. You called in tha aid or pocket handkerchief, and all bther available appliances; but laugh you must, and laugh you did, to your chagrin and mortification. The music box had got a-going and you did not >k'now how to stop it. We charge upon phlegmatic temperaments more leniency in their criticism of excitable temperaments. Do not think the boys and girls are going to destruction because their hilarity may sometimes be unreasonable. In the management of tlleir own dispositions some of ns have been breaking colts all our lives, and yet they will not answer to bit and bridle. Let not the rattan of our chastisement be too heavy upon those who are more frisky than we. We protest to this day that in that old country school-house we were not responsible for “Yankee Doodle” and "Cornin’ through the Eve.” Talmage, in the Brooklyn Magazine.

How a Woman Crosses a Street.

The funniest thing is a frog, but the next funniest thing is a woman trying to crosss the street in the rain. There are certain things to be done. It is desirable to keep the bottom of her clothes dry; also her feet She stands on the edge of the curbstone and gathers a handful on each side. She gets hold of the waterproof only, and lots ifall, and raises again, and shakes, and tries again. This time the skirt is all right, but the dress drags; gathering in the dress and skirt, again tries. The instep of one foot shows; all three are too high, and the dress is too high, and shows the skirt. Lets fall one foot. She gets discouraged, and grasps firmly on each side, and starts across the street on her heajs, with one side of the dres3 and the waterproof trailing in the mud, and about a yard of the skirt Visible on the other side.— Providence Journal

A Wet Blanket.

Judge Osborne Bobbins, of Galveston. who has been a widovfer for a year or so, has been paying his addresses to Sally Perkins, who is only seventeen years of age. ,He finally proposed to her, telling her what an easy time she would have of it, and how' good, he was to his first wife, with whom he lived ia harmony for twenty-five years. Sally d d not reply immediately, finally she asked:— “Judge, haven't you got a son of about my age ?” The Judge did not stand on the order of his going, but went at once, and moreover he has not been back since.— Texau Siltng*. v

Unbefitting Work for Women.

Travelers in Europe frequently see women carrying heavy burdqcs or drawing great loads upon the, public highly- We are to observe the same tbinfo nmiiptnnllj. m Amjenca. Such sights are shocking to the Afitorioan sense of fitness. - wr While women, under stress of poverty, must work for their livelihood, ana while all honor should be given to those who cheerfully and bravely accept abnormal conditions and bend backs to the wheel, society should save them from that kind of employment which compels them to assume, in public view, the character of beasts of burden. The spectacle that is tolerated among the European peasantry ought hot to be suffered in this country. The fact that the women who are thus abused make no complaint has nothing to do with the proprieties of the matter. In the streets of the large cities one does not have to wander far before coming upon a woman soavenger toiling under a sack of refuse, or a woman gleane? of coals and sticks bending under the weight of picked-up fuel. In the country districts, now and then, as the train-passenger is whirled past farms and gardens, he catches a glimpse of a woman holding a plow or wielding a hoe. The man who contemplates these spectacles without regret is ont of place among true Americans. His natnre must be essentially brntalselfishness rules iu his heart, and his mind is disposed to the oppression of the weak. Suoh men have congenial existence only where tyrants flourish and where they may become the willing instruments of subject-grinding despots. The day of the knight-errant who found bis keenest inspiration in the defense of his lady-iove has passed, but there is a present demand for that higher chivalry which preserves woman from the necessity for that work which the Indian warrior assigns to his patient, enduring, slave-like squaw. The point is sometimes made against those who are seeking to place the ballot in the hands of women, that on accepting such a favor they must necessarily consent, at least by implication, to carry muskets in time of war. It is an abominable proposition, shameful to those who suggest it. The question of woman’s suffrage must be decided upon a broader and better principle than that. The very fact that such a suggestion is made gives occasion for the admonition that society take care lest it shall permit the working-women to be rated according to muscular capability. We don’t want to see women digging, carrying mortar, throwing sledges, pushing wheelbarrows, lifting bales, and similar work. Great progress has been made in opening avenues for the employment of women but, let not the time come when the sight of a woman working for bread shall become so common that society will neglect to distinguish between that which she should do and that from which she should be saved. We must not grow used to seeing women toiling in the streets. We must not grow used to seeing them struggle under heavy loads. We must not grow used to the men who allow their mothers, wives, and daughters.to do such work as Nature never intended. Such employment is a retrogression to the savage state.’ ' “ It might be asked what is the difference between the lot of a woman who scrubs a floor and that of another who carries a pack through the streets as a common laborer. An immense difference to the woman’s personality and in moral effect. Upon these nice distinctions the tone of society depends. We must not become so utterly practical that we may disregard the sentiment of things altogether. When the chivalrio quality is dulled, society drops hack toward selfishness. Deference to woman is one of the most conspicuous attributes of the natural gentleman. And when a man can regard with indifference or satisfaotion a woman drawing a wagon upon which her husbaqd reclines, or hitched with a donkey to a cart, as is so often seen among the European peasantry, or doing any manner of work like this, that man has become a vicious element in American society. That such spectacles are comparatively rare in this country, 'as yet, is an agreeable reflection, bnt they are not so rare that a prdtest is uncalled for. If the women who thus work are of foreign birth, and take such employment as a matter of sparse, society owes it not the less to them than to itself to show them better ways of earning a living.— G. C. Matthews, in Chicago Current. T -

A Recruit’s First Experience.

My first uniform was a bad fit; my trousers were too lopg by three or four inches; the flannel shirt was coarse and unpleasant, too large at the neck and too short elsewhere. The forage cap was an ungainly bag, with pasteboard top and leather visor; the blonse was the only part which seemed decent; while the overcoat made me feel like a little nib of corn amid a preponderance of husk. Nothing except “Virginia mud” ever took down my ideas of military pomp quite so low. After enlisting I didn’t seem of so much consequence as I expected. There was not so much excitement on account of my military appearance as I deemed justly my due. I was taught my facings,and at the time I thought the drillmaster needlessly fussy about shouldering, ordering, and presenting arms. The musket, after an hour’s drill, seemed heavier and less ornamental than it had be. The first day I went out to drill, getting tired of doing the same things over and over, I said to the drillsergeant: “Let’s stop this fooling apd go over to the grocery.” His only reply was addressed to a corporal: “Corporil. take this man ont and drill him like h —land the corporal did. I found that snggestions were not as well appreci .ted in the army as in private life, and that no wisdom w s equal to a drill-master's “Right face," “Left wheel,” and “Right, oblique, march.” It takes a raw recruit some time to learn that he is not to think or suggest, but obey. Some never do learn. I acquired it at last, in humility and mud, but it was tough. Yet I doubt if my patriotism, during my first three weeks’ drill, was quite knee high. Drilling looks easy to a spectator, but it isn’t. Old soldiers-Who read this will remember their green reernithood and smile

assent. After a time I had cat doom my uniform so that I oculd see oat of it, and had conquered the drill sufliciently to see through it. Then the word came: On to Washington I— The Century. atP

A Ride on a Whale’s Back.

“JVe take 'white Whales on the run, sometimes,” said an old sailor, “and the last one I took last season got a joke on me that ain’t quite worn off yet. We went out in a gang that day, some with rifles and some with harpoons, and I reckon there was ten boats all told, and right down by the mouth of a creek we struck a school of ’em, so big that there was nothing but heads a-pop-pin’ up all around. When we got into the lot the boys began a-shootin’ and strikin’, and got so mixed up that we didn’t know where we was for a while. My boy had my harpoon, and the only thing I got holt on was a lance, jest like this, and as I was standing in the bow a big whale came up under me. I let drive and sunk the lance into huin about two feet, and at the same moment one of the other boats struck us right amidships. I lost my balance, and afore I knew it I was a-settin’ on that old whale’s back, hangin’ on to the pole, and goin’ along like greased lightnin’. The boys set up a yell and made way me, and off I went. “Ye see, ” continued the speaker, “the water was only about four feet, and the critter could not dive, so I just clung to it. First she struck in shore, and then skirted along the beach, a-snortin’ and puffin’ and beatin’ the water with her tail so’t you could hear her clean across the bay. But she couldn’t shake me off. I jist .clung to the handle and let her rip, and pretty soon, when we came to a shoal place, I beached her, or she beached me, I didn’t know which. Any way, I reckon I’m the first one that ever rode a whale in these diggins.”—Hartford Courant.

An Ancient American City.

Tucson, Arizona, is an ancient city. Antedating Jamestown and Plymouth, and first visited in 1540 by Coronado, it saw its first European settlers in 1560, and its first missionaries in 1581. But long before the year 1540 there was an Indian village established on the site of the present city, so that the Tucsonians can, if they please, claim an age for their town as great as Santa Feans claim for theirs. For all practical purposes, however, 1540 is a date sufficiently far away, and if Tncson only continues to improve with age, or becomes as good as she is old, much may be expected of the place. Built by the Spaniards, who brought so mucn religion to the people whom they conquered, San Xavier (San Havier) is today one of the largest, as it is one of the best preserved, of all the churches built during the years of the Spanish occupancy 6f the Southwest. Biding from Tucson for nine miles up the valley of the Santa Cruz River, one has glimpses from time to time through the groves of olive, oak, and meskete trees of the white walls and graceful towers of the church as they stand clearly outlined against the sky beyond. It was down this valley of the Santa Cruz, which is to-day attracting so much attention as an agricultural section, that , Cpronado marched on his way from old Mexico in 1540, and before the advent of this intrepid explorer and ever since the valley has been inhabited by the Papago Indians, whose adobe honses with thatched roofs are scattered along the road leading to the mission.— Tombstone Epitaph.

Thin Soup.

* One of the highest officers in the German army is very particular that his soldiers are properly fed. He is in the habit of making unexpected visits to the barracks and inspecting the food in person. On the occasion of one of these visits be perceived two soldiers carrying a steaming boiler from the kitchen. “Put it down. Fetch a spoon,” he ..commanded. The astonished soldiers looked at each other. One of them rushed off, but reappeared in a few moments with a spoon. “I want to see what sort of soup you get,” said the General, as he dived into the boiler with the spoon; but, as soon as he had tasted it, he spat it out, exclaiming : “What sort of devil’s broth is that? It tastes like dish-water. What is it anyhow?” “That’s just what it is, your excellency,” replied the soldier. “It’s the water the dishes were washed in. ” —Texas Siftings.

A Celestial Joke.

The love of fun is not unknown among the serious looking Celestials who, during the past few years, have been collecting in some parts of our Australian colonies. A storekeeper, wishing to advertise his articles' in the Chinese language, engaged a Celestial to paint him a sign, expecting, of course, that it would be a very enticing one. , It did not answer his expectations, however, for the only perceptible effect it had on “the relations of the sun and moon,” as the Chinese term themselves, was to excite a grin of the broadest dimensions. At iength the storekeeper, by a considerable bribe, obtained a translation in English of the advertisement, and found it to be as follows: “Don’t buy anything here; storekeeper a rogue.” —Manchester Times.

A Sermon Equal to Champagne.

“That sermon was something, like Mr. Spicer,” said Col. Sozzle as the two emerged from church. “Something like champagne,” said Spicer, gloomily, who had caught cold in the sacred edifice. “Ah 1 Yes! Pretty good. Sparkling, eh?” Spicer sniffed, ejaculated “No, extra dry,” and buried his face in a pocket handkerchief. —Boston Commercial Bulletin.

Valuable Deposits.

At Breslau, L. t, the German settlers have made some valuable dicoveries. In the so called “pine barrens” they have foupd deposits of peat, marl, fine clay, brick-clay, and kaalin. In excavating the, clay beds, tools and Indian arrow-heads have been found, indicating that these were worked ages before the discovery of America.—Exchange. \

Striking Proofs

Of the efficacy of H istetter’s Stomach Bitten have been afforded and published In the shape of testimonial* from physicians and private individuals, who have totted its value in cases of rheumatism. We are all aware of the obstinate witnessed Its fatal termination whin the heart. To resist and foil its preliminarsHn tacks la therefore the pert of wisdom. If iJK are felt In the Joints or muscles after a its approach may not unreasonably be inferred.’ In that case a wlneglsssfnl of Hostetler's Stomach Bitten now and then win be found a useful pre\ eutlve measure. Persons exposed to rotten weather will find in the Bitten a reliable safeguard. The medicine is also a reliable means of averting malarial ailments, and of overcoming dyspepsia, costiveness, nervousness, and inactivity of the Udnevs and bladder. Try its effect and satisfy yourself.

HENRY WARD BEECHER is evidently

not blind to the fact that the members of bis congregation sometimes give themselves up to tired nature’s sweet restorer. Here is a good story that proves it, from his own lips. “A regiment of lumbermen, big, tall fellows, six-foot-five, from Maine, were passing through Brooklyn in ’62. There were about 1,000 in all, and I marched them up to Plymouth Church, invited them in, gave every man of them a whole seat with a cushion in it. There they all sat with their knapsacks on, and I got on the platform and began to preach. My friends, it’s the only time in my life I ever preached a whole congregation to sleep. ”

Is It Really Consumption!

Many a case supposed to be radical lung disease Is really one of liver compliant and Indigestion, but, unless that diseased liver can be restored to healthy action, It will so dog the lungs w.th corrupting matter as to bring on their speedy decay, and then Indeed we have consumption, whiob is scrofula of the lungs, in its worst form. Nothing can be more happily circulated to nip this danger in the bud than is Dr. Fierce's “Golden Medical Discoveiy.” By druggists. A Somerville young man who has a redhaired sweetheart appropriately refers to her as his flame.— Journal.

Important. When you visit or leave New York City, save Baggage Erpressage and Carriage Hire, and stay at the Grand Union Hotel, opposite Grand Central Depot: 600 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. Families can live better for less money at the Grand Union than at any first-class hotel in the city. \ To keep apples from decaying put them in a cool place—where therejs a large family of children. Hursford’a Add Phosphate. NO PnVSICIAN NEED HESITATE. Dr. 8. V. Clevenger, Chicago, 111., says: “Horsford’s Acid Phosphate should be made official. It is the most eligible rorm Tor the administration of phosphorous, and no physician need hesitate to order it on bis prescription blanks.” Political stories are called “canards,” because we canardly believe them. Lvdia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound cures dyspepsia. To make both ends meet is why the baby puts its toes into its mouth.

Are You Going to New Orleans or Florida?

If so, you can go via the Monos Bouts via Louisville or Cincinnati, and see the Mammoth Cave, Nashville, Blount Springs, Birmingham, Montgomery, Mobile, and the Gulf coast for the same money that will take you through the dreary, uninhabited Mississippi swamps; we are confident yon cannot select a line to the South enjoying half the advantages that are possessed b y the Mon on Route and its Southern connections. No one should think of going South without visiting thu Mammoth Cave, the great natural wonder of this continent. So much has been written of this world-famous wonder, that It is impossible to say anything new in regard to it—it cannot be described; its caverns must be explored, its darkness felt, its beauties seen, to be appreciated or realized. It is the greatest aatural curiosity—Niagara not excepted—and he whose expectations are not satisfied by its marvelous avenues, domes and starry grottoes must either be a fool or a demi-goo. From Mobi e to New Orleans (141 miles) the ride along the Gulf coast is alone worth the entire cost of the whole trip. In full sight of the Gulf all the way, past Ocean Springs, Mississippi City, Pass Christian. Bay St. Louis, and Beauvoir, the heme of Jeff Davis. When you decide to go South make np your mind to travel over the line that passes through the best country and gives you the best places to atop over. This Is emphatically the Monoh Route, in connection with the Louisville and Nashville and the Cincinnati Southern Railways. Pullman Falaco Sleepers, Palace Coaches, double daily trains. The best to Cincinnati, Lonlsville, New Orleans or Florida. For full information, descriptive books, pamphlets, etc., address E. O. McCormick, Northern Passenger Agent Monon Route, 123 E. Randolph street, Chicago, or W. S. Baldwin, General Passenger Agent, 183 Dearborn street, Chicago.

Young Men, Bead This.

The Voltaic Belt 00., of Marshall, Mich., offer to send their celebrated Kleotbo-Vol-taic Belt apd other Electric Appliances on trial for thirty days, to men (young or old) afflicted with nervous debility, loss of vitality and manhood, and all kindred troubles. Also for rheumatism, neuralgia, paralysis, and many other diseases. Complete re toration to health, vigor, and manhood guaranteed. No risk is incurred, as thirty days' trial is allowed. Write them at once for illustrated pamphlet, free.

Marvelous Restorations.

The cures which are being made by Dra. Starkey & Palen, HOP Girard street, Philadelphia, in Consumption, Catarrh, Neuralgia, Bronchitis, Rheumatism, and all chronic diseases, by Compound Oxygen, are indeed marvelous. If yon are a sufferer from any disease which your physician has failed to cure, jwrite for information about tbis Treatment. '

The Throat. “Brown's Bronchial Troche*’’ act directly on the of the voice. The/ hare an extra ordinary effect in ail disorders of the throat “CAHE-CHARMiMi sleep, thou silent friend of all our woes!” But the poor victim of neuralgia knows nothing of, the delights of this great boon. Mrs. Deitrich, of 16 Hudson street, New Haven, Conn., walked the i oar all night, unable to secure a moment’s repose, in the morning her daughter battened to procure a bottle of Athlophc.ro*, which wrought immediate relief. Price, $1 per bottle. If your druggist hasn't it, send to Atblophoroa Co., 113 Wall street, N. Y. For dyspepsia, ismorsuos, depression of sp rits, and general debility in their various forms; also, ana preventive against fever and ague, and ether intermittent fevers, the ‘•Ferro-Phosphorated Elixir of Ca if ay a,” made by Caswell, Hazard & Co., of New 1 ork, and sold by all druggists, is the best tonic; and for patients recovering from fever or other sickness it has no equal. Could 1 but sec Car bo line made, And view the process o’er, No l* ld-bead pate would make afraid, ' Nor gray huts fright me more. As now improved and perfected, No oil was ere so sure, . ' ’. J All «kin of limb QY , It never fails to cars. Every lady or entlemad that is a sufferer fVorn severe headache should read tha adrertls ment of Dr. Bella, in another column of this paper. Ip a tit lot ed with Fore Byes, use Dr. Isaac Thompson’s Bye Water. Druggists sell U. sac.

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