Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 April 1870 — Page 4

NASBY.

U ea mt AMD K}M ooirriutßxa attempt TO MT TOMafttOH OP TU KBORO YOTA t* Tin tnrHi Wfaed, new tork—now TUT TUT ABOUT IT—TEH DIFFICULTT Q| TO WAT AED THE BEMTLT. .-.SSTKS-SSr'i.l J April It, 1870. i Tee Noo Tork VMI, In a recent lshoo, rammrkt that the Nigger vote moat come to os, beooa the Dimocrixy hod alloa bed ■aooons in managin the ignerant and de gtadld ckasea. Thh determined ua to act about aakoorin the rote uv the nigger popolnhan In ear ward imroqjttly Father McGrath insisted that it be done towunst, baooc the minit they become Dimocrats the way wna payed for their comin under the apentoocl direckahen uv the Catholic Ohxneh j Timmy McGee inflated that it ahood be done beooa the element, es opposed to m, mite become dangerous; Timmy O'Ryan beooz we had either tn in corporate em into our ranks or kill era, and ht didn't beWeve it wood pay to raise another riot jiat now; and I wantid cm attached to oar party becoe I wantid em in front nr my bar reglerly. Wd decided that the ahortest way to git at em wood be to git one nigger interestid with tp, who wood serve ez a decoy dud: to bring in the others. We wantid a nigger to aaaoshate with ; to embrace and moh ; to ahow other niggers that we cood and wood aflilyate with em. We hed a terrible time a gittin uv it starlid, how ever. We got one u v that race in my back room, and attempted to argoo the questions ut the hour with him, confident in our ability to crash him by tacts into submishen to our doctrins, but the mliable devil milled out uv his pocket a copy uv the Oonstooahn and askt Teddy the Lifter to read and oonstroo a sentence therein, which flniaht that pertikler effort. Teddy, and Patsy O'Rourke and Micky Doolan who held him in hand, startid back at the site uv that book ez tho they hed been shot. The cum com! read, and wat cood anyuv em do with sich a man ? We caught a sick nigger and hod him in tow three days. We nussed him, and fed him, and hed in a doctor for him, wich doctor give him medicine and Dimocrisy in ekal doses, all uv wich he seeminly gulped down with ease. We got him on the skore of gratitood, and he went/away, promisin that he wood jine us, but the second day he came back and laid down on the bar twenty dollars with the remark that that sum wood pay lor all the cost and trouble we hed been toon his account. “Wat do yoo mean?” said I, sternly, sweepin the money into the drawer, however, to make sure* uv that. Bustin into a paroxysm, uv teerj, he remarkt that ez low ana mean a nigger ez he wuzhe coodent reely jine us. It wuz unfair in us, he sed, to take advantage uv his illness to put him under obiigashens to us. , “ I can’t be a Dimokrat,” he sobbed, claopin his hands piteously. “ I can’t, reely. I hev a gray-haired mother livin, and a younger sister! I can’t! I can’t! for I’m ’spectabiy connected !” And he rushed out. It was forchnit for him that I wuz alone at the time. All our efforts to sekoor a Ethiopian to our standard seemed to come to natight, and we wux just on the confines uv despair, when onemorrnn Johnny O’Shouglinessy come rushin in exclaimin, “ I’ve got it—l’ve got it!” “ Got wat ?” I askt. “ The nigger we want. In the Poleece Court there's a nigger up for drukenness, vagrancy, steelin, assault and battery, and some otber things, and ez he heznt a blasted cent, uv course he’ll be sent up in short metre. We kin git him shoor, es we go about it quickly. I got the Judge to hold on a bit till I cood see you.” ( To wunst I seed a lite. Rushing frantically down to the court room, I gave myself as bail for his appearance, wich the Judge, who is a politikle friend of mine, acceptid, without question, and seezin the nigger by the coat collar, I hustled him off to my place in triumph. Tim Dolan spoke up. “ Will yoo,” sez Tim, “ es we get yoor discharge promise to alluz vote the Dim - ” ——— - - - ~-- -■ “Hold! ” sez I quickly, Jjjr I wuz afeerd Tim’s thoughtless precipitancy mite rooin all, “ hold ! He aint in condishen to hev that question put to him. Wait a minnit: I understand wats required to make a convert better than yoo do.” And seizin a bottle from behind the bar I put it to his lips. The nigger drank with a eagernis wich gave me hope. Teddy spoke up agin—- “ Will you promise to alluz vote rp —” “Hold!” said I. “He haint enough. Drink.” And the nigger emptied the bottle. “Now,” sed I “ are yoo willin to promise to alluz vote the Dimoeratic tiekit—to labor with your colored brethren to bring em into the fold uv the Dimocrisy, and to do your level best to promote the interests uv the Dimoeratic thirty now and forever !” The nigger, by this time crazy drunk, (the likker wuz from my own private bottle and unwatered,) swore that he would promise all this. “ Gib me some mo’ dat whisky,” he shrieked. I gave him another bottle and in fifteen mi nits he wuz sleepin the deep sleep wich the tite man only knows. In about four hours he awoke, and I thought it time to approach him on the main question. “Cerzer,” I remarkt, “you must commence yoor work to nite. We shel git up a meetin uv colored men at this place for the purpose uv organizin a Colored Democratic Club, and you must address em.” “Must I unloose em to jine a Dimoeratic Club ?” he asked. •„ "Certinly.” “ Did I promise to do it ?” « “Certinly,” I replied, “and my buck you’d better keep that promise or I’ll hev yoo back in the dock at the Poleece Court in a jiffy.” “I’ll do it,” sed he with the desperate air uv one who hed determined that life ain’t worth livin for and iz prepared for anything. I’U do it, but I must hev likker enuff to drown my con which is to say, give me nerve.” .“Certinly,” I replied, “all the likker yoo want, but speek yoo must.” The aite come and there Wuz a decent show uv niggers in the back room. But the speeker! alas! he wuz too far gone to speek and I hed to dismiss cm. The next morning he swore he never wood do it, and to git him to the pint uv consentin I give him more likker, and he got drunk agin, and so on it went, alt the week. The fix we wuz in wuz suthin like this:

1. We coodent approach a nigger who hed any gland in or inflooense. 2. When we capchered sich a wun he woodent hev anything to do with ub when he wnz sober, and to hold him we had to keep him drank. 3. When drunk enuff to stay with us he wuz too drnnk to do wat we wanted. After squanderin on this poor wretch at least a half barrel of ez good likker ez ever soothed my shrinkin sole, I wuz compelled to hev him re-arrestid and sent up lor a year or two. I coodent stand no sich drain on my finances, nor could I bear to see so much likker wastid on a nigger. The cuss took his sentence joyfully. “It'shard,” he sed, “but it’ll better than yooperposed.” , This nigger question is Mm problem nv the age. Mow it will be solved puzzles May Heaven send us wisdom. Petroleum V, Nasby, (wich wuz Postmaster.)

The Fifteenth Amendment.

Rav. W- H. Daniels, of the First Methodist Episcopal Charch of Chicago, on the l?th of April preached a sermon on the Fifteenth Amendment, from which we take the following extracts; » In the year 1020 the first negro slaves were brought to this country by a Dutch shlp-of-war, and landed in Virginia; In this year, 1870, the last restrictions of the rights of the negro as a citizen are re-' moved, and he siaiuli forth a free man and a voter.

In order that we msy better realize this mighty work which God has wrought for the negro race, we shall do Well to note the leading parts of their history. The poet Virgil tells us of a poor fellow, who, having offended some of the gods, was placed in a prison under the earth, and a mountain piled on top of him to keep him down. But the negro has had a whole range of mountains to keep him down. First, his own ignorance. He had his home in the darkest corner of the earth, and so dense was his stupidity that he would have starved to death for want of knowing how to make his living if nature had not been prodigal of her gifts in that sultry land. When the people were wanted for slaves they were hunted in the jungle like wolves, herded in the slave-pen like cattle, packed in the slaveship like herrings in a barrel, and then sold like donkeys, to cultivate the fields of American planters. They could not help learning something in their new life, and lest they should be able to escape from their prison the courts of legislation were set to work piling on laws to make the mountain higher and heavier, laws which forbade them the school, the spelling book, and the Bible. Second, There was the mountain of poverty ; a mountain exceeding great and heavy, as those who have lain under it kDOW too well. It is a terrible thing to have no money, no properly and no credit, but the poverty of the negro was more. Redid not even own himself; his eyes were Jiot his own ; his hands with which he toiled were the property of another man, and so were bis wile and his children. This mountain, too, grew in height with the growing sense ol misery which the black man endured as he saw other households grow rich by bis toil, and other men grow proud because he saved them from soiling their bands with work. And it is no wonder that lie writhed and groaned under this mountain, as the fabled prisoner did under his mountain. But there were no earthquakes in consequence. The third mountain was his color and the pride of race on the part of bis op pressors. We are all of us to blame, I fear, in this respect. We have helped to pile up this mountain; we possess some of the old spirit of caste—at least lam ashamed to confess I do, though I hope God may use the Fifteenth Amenduient as a mean s of grace to me and my people, that we may willingly believe God “ hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth.’’ — Acts xvii, 26. The fourth mountain was the Democratic party. The men at the North and' at the South, who held the slaves and governed the natioD, put this doctrine into their political creeds that slavery was right; that it was a divine institution. We all know how tenaciously a man holds to his religiou, especially if his religion helps his prejudice and 'his profits, and this doctrine being preached from one end of the land to the other, the mountain grew exceeding great and high. But “God hath delivered him;” hath tumbled the mountains oft' him and lifted the poor fellow up, and now lie stands upright, a man and a voter, a citizen of the greatest nation of the world. “This is the Lord’s doings, and it is marvelous in our eyes.” We had a strange procession in Chicago the other day—a procession the like of which ten years ago we hardly hoped to see in our day, a procession the like of which no man in this land will ever see again, for, thank God, there is no other race of slaves to be set free—it was the negro race celebrating the Fifteenth Amendment,

I do not know who planned that pro--Cession. liiit jt Wiis a work of. genius, a poem lull of tears and laughter, "of memories of horror and omens of glory. Many an Old-Line Abolitionist felt Ins hair rising and blood tingling, and wanted to shout, and did shout, as that line of dark faces, men, and women, and children, with many of the marks of their poverty, as well as of their joy, about them, wound its quiet way through our streets. He had sometimes hoped that his grandsons, or perhaps his sons might live to see it, but lie expected to be looking down from Heaven when the notes of its music should be heard. But there it was, right before his eyes, a nation come to life, and, what, is more, come to liberty I It was a good day, my brethren, a day for songs and rejoicing, and if it was a joy to us, what think you, was it to them? The good time coming, and so bitterly long in coming, had burst upon them, and they did well to celebrate with music and banners; to turn out en mouse, old and O, rich and poor, in coaches and on lack, in carts and wagons, with bells ringing and the old flag flying, and yet with a strange silence of voices as if they were too happy to sing, or as if their new honors were a dream which a shout might frighten away. That procession was historic and it was prophetic. First in order came a platoon of police signifying law—government. It was right that law should walk at the head of their procession, for law had made slaves of them, and government had helped to hold them in bondage. Yet these people always respected law: they have not been rebellious. John Brown raised a little insurrection, but, as a mutiny, it was a failure. They.waited patiently for law to deliver them, and for government to adopt them, and it would have been well if the man who gave the famous Dred Scott decision could have had a place among the policemen. Law once crushed this people; now it lifts them i they have obeyed law while It was poverty and bonds to obey. How gladly will they obey It when it commands them to be prosperous and free. The procession was In part composed of various representatives of the trades. Toil has been one of the rights of the black man ; and it has been claimed as one of the rights of the white men to drive him to toil. Laziness is the great crime of slaves in the eyes of their masters; but who could work with much vigor, when work brought no wages! And is laziness a crime only in black men ? Are the loafere with white faces at the South and North to go unblamcd ? , But from this time a new motive will enter into the life of these sons of toll, viz.: tho right to enjoy to the fullest extent the fruit of their labor, and, if the half of this nation was made rich by their labor as slaves, what grand results may come from their labor as freemen ? There was one significant emblem in that procession, which is worth a passing notice; a man with his whol? family crowded into a little wagon, drawn by a wretched horse, being, perhaps, unable to buy an artistic banner to represent the implements of his trade, bore aloft the implement itself—a whitewash brush., Ah ! my man, there is a great deal of whitewashing to be .done in the archives of this natipn; a great many black letters to be effaced, letters which have written the great disgrace of this Government by writing the records of the slavery of your people. It will take something more po

tent than lime and water to wipe out the crimes of the strong against the weak which have been committed in this land; they have entered Into history; they are cut into the walla of our national temple, and never to much whitewashing will hide them. So let ns have no whited sepulchres, but rather a new life in onr nation, a life which shall help us >to count the right of all men sacred, a life which shall regenerate our politics and cause us to insist forever on liberty for all men. So the world may forget the darkness of our past by rcaaon of the g ory Hint is dawn lng on our futuro. We shall do well to remember the doctrine of that old pat riot. “He only loves liberty who wishes-all mi n to be free.”

There was the colored secret societies, too, in the line, and I thought of the won derful secret brotherhood among the slaves, by means of which they helped one another to bear the horrors of their servitude. Any important fact, any new danger to one of their race coming to the ever-listen lng ears of his people, was told to him though he were leagues away, and through all the nights of th<>sp dark years that weird ..system of communication was kept up all over the Southern States, so that without telegraphs or printing presses, or even an alphabet, these poor slaves talked together across couaties and States, sharing in each other’s sorrows and cheering each other’s souls. And when the war broke out it was often the black men who had the fullest and earliest information. A slave would carry the news of “ Massa Linkum’s victories” a long way in a night; he had learned to run with heavy tidings, but he cauld almost fly when he had such goo# news to tell. Another noticeable thing about the procession was the prominence given in It to the Union. There were veteran soldiers who fought for the Union, there was the pageant of dusky maidens, one for each State of the Union, there were “ Brothers of Union,” with their banners, and a long line of carriages full of “Daughters of Union,” and the flag of the Union was everywhere in the procession, as was doubtless an honest and sincere love for the Union. The politics of these people are not doubtful; they believe in liberty and union ; they made a glorious record to this effect during the war, and who shall say they do not now deserve a place among the citizens of the Union * They were oiir allies everywhere, and our friends always. A poor fugitive irom Andersonville, skulking along at night, would stop and hide, at the sound of ap proaching footsteps, until convinced that the stranger was of the same eolor as the night, and then he would come out and ask his way. “ A negro” was to our boys synonymous with “a friend,” and now that the war is over, let us not be ashamed to own our friends, to stand by them in their new relations, and instruct them in their new duties. They have had a training for citizenship which is unequalled ; they have been taught by torture and tears what it is to be a slave; and they know, as we never can know, what it is to be free; and for this reason they are to be relied upon in the use of the ballot in time of peace, or of the rifle in time of war. Liberty reinforces itself by making citizens of the black race, for by instinct born of sorrow they will be true to liberty. And now I think with shame of the record of some of our own color, as compared with that of the negro, in the war. There are men among us who were traitors then; whose hearts were with our enemies in our struggle for life; who did not thank God f>r Union vic’ories, or work and pray for our armies when they suffered defeat. Yes, white men at the North have made such a shamefui record for- themselves, and yet these men and some of their ill mannered sons, had the effrontery to laugh at that procession, and scoff at the new citizens of the nation.

There was a Sunday School in that procession. Now a Sunday School signifies two things,—religion and education. The most of us have obtained our religion by means of education, but the black race in this country have been religious without education. Their faith, so simple and undying, in spite of generations of watting tor answers to their prayers, seems to have been a special inspiration of the Spirit of God ; and their faith has saved them. Their religion was wild and full of superstition, but it was hearty, and founded upon a few simple truths which they had learned while some white men read the Bible in their hearing. -■ ‘ ; , The grace of patience they possessed to a great degree, and for a spirit of forgiveness under injury, there is nothing in these days that equals theirs. They have for centuries prayed for those who persecuted them; when smitten on the cheek they have turned the other also, crimes have been committed against them habitually and continually which a white man feels justified in avenging by murder, and yet they have endured and waited, always sustained by a great trust that Jesus would send them deliverance. If tjps were a revengeful people, what horrors would haunt the dreams of those enemies of this race by whom they have been so long outraged ? They have an occasion for vengeance that might well make their former masters tremble; but no one fears them unless it be a certain class of politicians who are anxious about the effect of the negro vote upon their prospects for office. They are peaceable, because they are Christians—very ignorant Christians, it is true—but tried iu the f urnace and not found wanting. And there were the bells ringing out their joy at the new era. The negro has alwa>s been a jolly, happy fellow in spite of his miseries. A special dispensation of joy and buoyancy «f spirit seems by a merciful Providence to have been given him, and.but for this he must have perished under the Weight of his woes. Hitherto, in this nation, bells have rung foi everybody but him—now he has a chime of his own. The nation hears it, and good meu rejoice in the sound; the world hears it, and Christendom echoes back the notes in songs and prdises to God for Ills new gospel of liberty; heaven hears it—the heaven where so many of their sable brethren found the free land ; the heaven where so many of our sons and brothers went, when they laid down their lives fighting God’s battles; the heaven where every eye brightens, and every voice has a song of joy at the news of God’s great work for his other Israel, a race delivered from slavery, “ a nation born at Once.” And now at last, at the end of this strange line, comes old Father Nicddenvus, or one very like him, who seems to have been waked from the gum-tree, according to the song, and to have come forth to assist in the great jubilee. • A resurrection indeed—a new birth is here. Let us rejoice before the Lord today ; and from this grand deliverance of His people, let us take new courage that the time shall come when all nations shall find the new life, the liberty of the Gospel, and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of onr God. In my judgment, we have occasion to offer devout thanksgiving to the Lord of Hosts for the event which our negro citizens have so recently celebrated. He knows how to carry on the world better than we, ami this providence of His is no less divine arid less glorious than the bringing of Israel out of Egypt, which a read so reverently in onr Bibles. Let then, rejoice with our colored brethren, be exceeding glad; and while we see new race marching under the columns of dur temple of liberty, let ns standby to give them a welcome, and more, let us

give them schools, and lands, and churches. and trained teachers, and ministers pf religion, that they may become Intelligent and prosperous among us. Long time have they waited for the Lord; at length He haa come to save them. They do well to rejoice, for In God’s good providence the days of their mourning are ended, and the occasion of their joy is a pledge of Jehova to us all that Iniquity shall not go unpunished, but that those who trust in the Lord shall never be confounded.

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The Phrenological Journal and Packard's Monthly for May contains the following articles, many of which are illustrated: Hon. Samuel Merrill, Governor of lowa, with portrait and character; Knowing, or Man and the World; The Man in the Moon; Superstitions of Different Tribes and Nations; Sketches from China; The Color of His Eyes; Mark M. Pomeroy; Peter Crisp’s Spectacles; Charles P. Sykes; Eminent Engravers ; Tale Sketches; Growing in Grace; Honesty; An Assassin and His Victim—Prince Pierre Bonaparte and Victor Noir; “ 1 Can’t,” for the Boys; Yonng Womanhood in America; Eleanor Kirk at the Five Points; To Dahomey and Back; Sur names and their Derivations, etc. Price, 80 cents, or $3 a year. Address S. K. Wells, No. 389 Broadway, New York. Detectives! Detectives!— I T. H. Whippier A Co.’s General Detective Police Agency, Nos. 76 and 78 LaSallc-st., has extended facilities for transacting all business In its peculiar line in Chicago, St. Louis, and New York. Address T. 11. Whipple, Sup’t, as above. A Voire from the Kitchen. Upwards of thirty professed cooks, manv of them hailing from the best h otels in the United States, have voluntarily come for w ard and pronounced Baud's Ska Moss Fakin'* the finest article for puddings, custards, blanc mange, creams, Jellies, and other favorite Items of the desßert that has ever come under their notice. 8o much for the p&latability of the new element of food. A still greater number of distinguished physicians and scientific chemists indorse It as a nutrlme'nlof the very highest class : while every housekeeper who uses It admits that It Is full fifty per cent, cheaper than maizena. &rtna, corn starch, or any other preparation from corn or the cereal grains. The new food staple Is manufactured, under a patent, by the Sea Moss Fartne Uo. 53 Park Place ; and In view of the above established (acts, It is not surprising tliat their extensive machinery is kept mnnlng night and day to supply a demand that is rapidly becoming universal. - tbs purest and sweetest Cod-Liver oil In the world Is Hazard A Caswell’s, made on the tea shore, from fresh, selected liven, by CASWELL, HAZARD A CO., New York. It Is absolutely pure and sic*!. Patients who have once taken It prefer tt to all othera. Physicians have decided It superior to any of the other oUa In market. Chapped hands, face, rough skin, pimples, ringworm, Bait-rheum, and other cutaneous affection* cured, and the skin made soft and smooth, by using the JUNIPER TAR SOAP, made by CASWELL, HAZARD A CO., New York. It la more convenient and easily applied than other remedies, avoiding the trouble of the greasy compounds new In use. A Cough, Cold, or. Sore Throat, requires immediate attention, as neglect oftentimes results in some incurable Lung Disease. “ Brown's Bronchial Troche*” are a simple remedy, and will almost invariably give immediate relief. Owing to the good reputation and popularity of the Troches, many worthless and cheap imitations are offered , which are good for nothing. Be sure to obtain the true “ Brown’s Bronchial Troches." Bold everywhere. In numbers there Is safety. It was npon this principle that the formula of Judson’s Mountain Herb Pills was prepared. Dr. Judson, Intending to spend a fortune in advertising his pills, submitted nis recipe to the revision of the most Intelligent and learned physicians of the age, and the result Is a simple but most efficacious medicine —the Judson’s Mountain Hehb Pills. They purify the blood, remove all obstructions, cleanse the skin of all pimples and blotches, and are perfectly sure and safe in their operation. The Judson’s Mountain Herb Pills cure Biliousness, Female irregularities, Headache and many of the diseases arising from impure blood and a deranged digestion. Use the Judson’s Mountain Herb Pills, and when you have proved their virtue recommend them to yonr friends. They aro both sugar-coated and plain. For sale everywhere.

Newspaper Statements.

HOW THE PEOPLE TEST THEIR TRUTH. This is not an age when people believe on trust whatever they see in the public journals. Fifty or sixty years ago when the accuracy of a statement that had appeared In one of tho gazettes or “News Letters’’ of the day, was questioned, it was considered a sufficient answer to all cavil to say, “It must be so, for I read it in the newspaper.” It is not so now. Newspaper assertions must be verified before they are taken for granted, and this is especially the case as regards statements setting forth the remedial properties of proprietary medicines- For example: it was not until the tonic and alterative properties of Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters had been deliberately and thoroughly tested by thousands, and found to be in perfect accord with the nrintediCiaims put forth in itsj behalf, that it was accepted by the public at large as a Standard Remedy. But when multitudes who had resorted to it as a safeguard against malarious fevers, a cure tor indigestion and biliousness, a means of stresgthening the frame, cheering the spirits and imparting constitutional vigor, came forward and testified that its beneficial effects had exceeded their, most sanguine expectations, of course the world believed To resist such proofs was impossible. Great care has been taken from the beginning not to overstate the merits of the Bitters. Exaggeration and bombast have been the death of -many preparat ions that might otherwise have survived. They were “weighed in the balance and found wanting.” Hostetter’s Bitters, on the contrarv, have never been announced in grandiloquent language as a cure for every bodily ill, but simply as a pure harmless vegetable specific, possessing remarkable invigorating, regulating, anti-bilious and an tiseptic properties. This is exactly what the public know the medicine to be, and its enormous sales is an argnment in its Caver. A profuse and many times excessively offensive discharge from the nose, with “ stoppage ” of the nose at times, impairment of the sense of smell and taste, watering or weak eyes, impaired hearing, irregular appetite, occasional nausea, pressure and pain over the eyes, and at limes in the back of the head, occasional chilly sensations, cold feet, and a feeling of lassitude and debility are symptoms which are common to catarrh, yet all of them are not present in every case. Dr. Sage’s Catarrh Remedy cures catarrh in its worst forms and stages. It is pleasant to use, and contains no poisonous or caustic drugs. Sent by mail on receipt of sixty cents. Address Dr. R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y. For sale by most Druggists everywhere. TherE is no excuse of so many deaths by consumption, if those afflicted with lung diseases will only use Allen’s Lung Balsam in season. It will soon euro the disease and prevent so great a sacrifice of life. For sale bv all druggists.

Batchelor’s Hair Dye.

This splendid Hair Dye Is the best in the world,/ the cmly true and perfect Dye; harmless, reliable, in-. stantaneoue; no disappointment; no ridiculous tints; remedies the ill effects of bad eyes; Invigorates and leaves the Hair soft and beautiful black or brown. Bold by all Druggists and Perfumers, and properly applied at the Wig Factory, lfi Bona street. New York.

Darno’s Catarrh Snuff

Strengthens Weak Eyes—lmproves tho Hearing, Relieves Headache, Promotes Expectoration, Cures Catarrh lu ita worst forms, and sweetens the Breath. It contains no Tobacco, Is mild, and promotes a pleasant sensation and beneficial result* to all who appreciate “A Clear Head." y-304 winiw York

“Father Will Swttli the Bill,” Lockwood’! new song, published by Root A Ctdy, Chlckgd, Is passing into * by-woul.

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