Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 8, Number 35, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 23 February 1878 — Page 2

THE MAIL

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

TKRKB HAUTE, FEB. 23,1878

THB ODD OLD MAN.

He lived art a mile from the village, Oat there by the orks of tbe road His farm, by the help of good tillage,

Incr ased what be planted and sowed. His dwelling was low aud old-fashioned, The roof wssall eovered with moss Bat still by his fixing and patching

It kept out tbe rain and tbe frost. He lived very peaceful and quiet We knew bin/ as Jeremy 'l'odd go plain was bis dress and his diet,

Toe neighbor* all said he was odd.

The fashions be never would follow,

And calm was tbe lite that he led. He did not belong to tbe meeting, And said very little of God Bat orphans were glad at b*s greeting,

And every one said be was odd.

If ever be offered to sell you A cow, or an ex, or a horse, He made it his business to tell

Kaoh one of tbe animal 'a faults. He hired Bill Peters tbe cripple,

To buak out bis corn by the day, And heaped up the grain on the bushel To measure me wheat for his pay. His name was not on the subscription

To save tbe poor beaLben abroad ,, His neighbors he helped in afflictiot, The p«ople all thought he was odd.

He never made any "profession," Nor said that he had a "new heart," But something he had in possession

Of which many more nerd a part: A something that made him so gentle, So honest, so indly and true If notcbuich religion, we venture

Thai Jesus would say "it will do." He mighr, in the church, have been better, And rendered more service to God He'd more of the "spirit" than "letter,"

And that was what made him so odd.

The preacher might say he was Godless, Because he subscribed to no creed But still 'twas a part of his oddness

The wretched and nungry to feed. If Jeremy failed of salvation, Because he stayed out of tbe church, We oanuot see how in creation

Professors wl'l shun the lee lurch, Wh» wear the full garb of the pious, Bat love not their neighbors—nor God I We choose when our Maker shall try us

To be like the old farmer—odd.

IN THE ICE.

BY J. T. TROWBR1DOE.

VIII.

UNCLE JIM'S EVENING CALL. Again that Sunday evening, old man Dracutt and bis wife sat together by their lonelv kitchen Are, but with no Clinton now to come in anil break tbe awful silence and monotony of their lives. The lamp had not been lighted only tbe moonlight lay upon the floor, ana tbe still whiteness of tbe winter's night filled the room with its pallid reflection.

Tbe old man sat in bis chair erect, but looking more crooked together in the neck and jaws than ever, while bis wife appeared bent by an added load of trouble. There was utter silence, except tbat now and then a soft, low sob was heard tbe old lady was thinking of tbat night two weeks ago, and weeping. Then, ever and anon, from without came a deep, muffled, reverberating roar, or groan, as if nature herself sympathized with their woe. If it bad been summer,you would.have said it thundered. But it was the pond complaining—the thick-ribbed ice shuddering and moaning under the cold, stormy night. Every sudden, prolonged peal reached tbe ears of the lonely old couple in the bereaved house, reminding them of their loss.

They bad not spoken to each other yef, nor had there beetn much need that they should speak—so well had they learned in all those years to understand each other without words. But they had shewn in many ways that they felt more kindly towara each other since the great affliction cams upon them. And sow, old lady Dracutt, kitting there weeping, in the gloom, longed to speak onoe more to her husband, and to hear his voice.

She was ready to say. 'Forgive me, Jonathan,' but was afraid to utter the words. How striAgely they would sound, breaking tbe unnatural silence that had kept them dumb to each other for twelve years!

Again anJ again she tried to speak, but could not bring her tongue to shape the syllables It seemed paralysed she began to feel a strange, benumbed fear tbat she would never have power to break that silence—that it bad been taken from her as a punishment jr her long sin of wilfulness and hardheartednem toward him.

While she was thus struggling Ineffectually with herself, suddenly another voice broke tbo spell which she could not—to her terror and joy,her husband's voice. 'I have been thinking, Jane—'said he, and stopped. •O, Jonathan! you have spoken!' she cried out, with a wild sob, 'God blbss you, God bless you, Jonathan!' 'Jane, I thought I had better speak,' said tbe old man, In a trembling voice. 'I have been wantin' to for many daya. I think I have been wrong, Jane.' •Don't say it, don't say it, Jonathan,' said the old lady, sinking to the floor, and thowlng ber clasped hands across his knees. *1 should nave asked your forgiveness. I have tried to. I was trying to now, when you spoke. O Jonathan. Jonathan!' 'God forgive us! I think we have both been wrong, but I have been most In tbe wrong*said the old man. Then a long silence followed, broken by sighs ana sobs, and the moaning peals of tbe pond. 'I've been thinkln', the old man resumed—she was at last seated by his side once uiom, and her band was in his —'that I cant, somehow, bear to have Clinton's memory pawed over in this way. I think we ought to have funeral servlsea for him,even without—' 'Ye*,' said she, *1 nave felt so, too. It will be some satisfaction. 1 said as much to Com In James.' •He told me you did. He told me, too, what yon said about my blaming myself so much on account or the boy. An it touched me, it touched me I didn't deearve tbat yon should feel and •peak so kindly.' •But Jonathan,'replied Jane, wiping her eyes, 'you said nothin' to him tbat night that it waant your duty to aay. I felt that, though I hated to have blm hurt.' 'I don't know, I don*t know. If I bad been different, be might have been different. No wonder be was eroaa sometime*. It's the hardest thing for me to reconcile myself to—tbe feci thai my last word to him was unkind He wouldn't have gone off on the pond so tbe next mornin' without apeakin to oa. If it hadn't been for that. I thought 'twas my doty to reprimand blm, and maybe it was. But my first duty was to set him an example of cbeerralneas

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and good temper. What oould we expect of him as long as we, too, were at enmity?' And the old man ended with a gronn.

While they were talking, there -came a knock at the door. Tbe old man said, 'Walk in,' while tbe old lady made haste to light a lamp.

It's nobody but me don't light op the tail

for me,' said a familiar voioe, as form of a hale old man appeared in tbe doofway. 'Cousin James!' said the old lady, still opening tbe wick with the lighted match. 'At this time o' night, and with a knock!' said old man Dracutt, poshing chair toward the visitor. 'I knocked because I—I rather thought

Jishad

Nor try to put on any style, Bat, owing a dime or a dollar, lie paid it when due with a smile. His words were but few, and well chosen, *Twas clear that be meant what be said His temper, not heated, nor trozen.

company,' said James, glancing eye a'uout the room as be sat down •You beard talkin', I s'pose,' said tbe old man. 'Ye needn't be surprised at it, 'Twas nobody but Jane and me.' 'Praise the Lord!' exclaimed uncle Jim (for we like beet tbe name tbe young folks called bim by). 'Bleas ye, Jonathan bless ye, Jane. I hoped this sorrow would bring you closer together, and I see it has.' 'It luu, it has!' cried Jane. 'God's ways are not onr ways/ aaid uncle Jim, with deep emotion. 'He has done it. He meant it all for your good.' •I believe so, replied Jane, We have had comfort in each other to night, such as we haven't bad for twenty year. Bat, O James! at what a cost! I've been tbinkin' the sun couldn't melt us, and so God sent bis llghtnin'. If we hadn't been so hardhearted, then our boy might have been spared to us.' 'Bat yon will soon become reconciled to his loss,' said uncle Jim, cal Iy—so very philosophically indeed, tbat old man Draoutt looked at him with reproachful surprise. 'That can never be, James. There's only one thing now that can be any aatisfaction to us. This week the ice will be cut overall that part of tbe pond. He may be found, froze into it. If not, then we must have funeral services, just the same as if be was. What ails ye, James? Ye don't listen to me. 1 thought ye approved of tbe idee of a funeral.' 'So I do—tbat is, so I should—hep!' coughed uncle Jim, using his handker chief, fidgeting in his chair, and behav ing strangely in other ways. 'But wouldn't hurry about it. There's no knowin', ye know—be may be found yet—and—hem!—tbe fact is, there's no sartainty—no positive sartainty—that he's drownded, ye know, Jonathan.'

I wish I did know it,' said Jonathan, somewhat startled. 'If I- could think there was a particle of hope! James,' he went on, with, increasing agitation, what have you come here for this time o' tbe evenin'? You don't act nat'ral self. There's sometbin'—' •Yes, there is sonaethin'' unole Jim replied, and I want you to be prepared for't.'

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For heaven's sake, James!' said the old lady, 'what is it? Have they found the poor boy's body?' •Not—not exactly tbat. I tell ye,' uncle Jim cleared bis throat again, there's no positive sartainty about his being drownded. The men said be was on the ice jest a few seconds before it broke up but, don't you see men can't have much recollection with regard to time, after such an accident? What seemed to them a few seconds, when they thought on't afterward, might have been a few minutes—in fact, might have been five, ten minutes. Have ye thought of that?' 'Yes, yes. But all the circumstances^ James—they are agin' tbe supposition. Where could the boy be, if cot there? He couldn't have gone off. He bad no money about him. Then, again, the hammers, James!'

The hammerb!—hem!—yes, Jonathan.' said uucle Jim, in tbe awkwardest manner, and with tbe strangest blending of cheerfulness and anxiety in his kind old face. 'About the hammers something has come to light with regard to them and that's one thing I've come to tell you. Whatever has become of Clinton, they haven't gone to tbe bottom of the pond, that's a sartain case.' •How do ye know?' cried old man Dracutt, almost fiercely.

I was told so on good authority, this very evenin'. I know just where those hammers sre. They are lyin' in a corner of the fence, just a few rods beyond tbe tool bouse. The very hammers. I know it. Tbe snow prevented 'em from bein' discovered before.'

Clinton! Clinton! then he may be alive!' broke forth the old lady, with sudden and wild hope. 'It is more than probable. In fact, a— erson—has been heard from up in New Hampshire, who answers his description. A yonng man come to town tfaris evenin' and brought the news. He'll be here in a few minutes. Be calm, Jane, I—I believe he is oomin' now!' (footsteps in tbe creaking snow outside.) So, do be composed, Jonathan! You know BOW who it is!' aa the door open-

Clinton!' shrieked the old lady, tottering forward, and Iklling on tbe newcomer's neck, with hysterical sobs.

It was Clinton, sure enough, and Phil Kermer with him.

HOW CLINTON MISSED A RARE CHANCE.

A word now (While the old oouple are recovering from their shock of joy) with regard to tbe young man's reappearance.

The reader has, of course, divined that the ghoet Phil saw on the ioe, was no other than Clint himself. He crossed the pond because it waa tbe nearest way home. When he stood still, he waa hesitating whether to go on to the lane, or to take a still more direct course over Mr. Jonea's farm. He bad on India-rub-ber shoes, and tbey muffled the sound of his footsteps, preventing them from being beard until be was quite near. When he flung out hia arms and beat his breast he was simply whipping bis sides to warm hi* hands. You may be sure that Phil did not long remain in doubt aa to tbe real nature of the apparition and he was thrilled with something besides fear, when, calling out in aloud voice from the abore. 'Is that you, Clinton Dracutt?' he received the characteristic response, In gross mortal accents, 'I bet ye! That you, Phil Kermer?'

When the first surprise of their meeting was over, and Phil bad got from Clint a brief aooount of his disappearance, and Clint had learned (for tbe first time), from Phil, that be waa supposed to be drowned, tbey walked up tbe lane toward the Dracatt house. Bat now it oocatred to Phil that the grandson'ssudden reappearance unannounced might be even a more dangerous shock to tbe old couple than the report of his death had been. He remembered that dude Jim was clooe by, spending the evening

with Mr. Jone\ a rick neighbor and be peculiarly appropriate tbat he who had broken to them

thought It would be

now oonvey to

the bad news should them the antidote. Tbey met undo Jim just as be waa craning out of neighbor Jones's door. He went back Into tbe bouse with them, where be remained to recover a little from his astonishment, and to hear enough of Clint's story to enable him to unfold the truth by degress to the old

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oouple then Phil waited for bim to

set out on his mission. do his errand,

and for Clint to get warm by Mrs. Jonea's fire.and to eat a log of oold turkey from ber larder, then took him home, entering tbe house with him, as we have

Clint was looking well, but rather shabby. He was inclined to swagger a little, and to show a manly distaste for the fuss made over him. Old man Dracutt scare*i utterered a word, but appeared fairly dazed by what seemed to bim more a dream of hia grandson's return than a reality, and stood with silent tears coursing down bis aged cheeks. Tbe old lady kissed tbe ooy often enough for both and repeated again and again tbe question before he oould get breath between tbe caresses to answer it 'Where bsve you been, Clinton? Clinton, O Clinton! where have you been?' 'Not to the bottom of tbe pond, by a long chalk!' said Clint, getting away from her and seating himself, while all sat around bim, in tbe dimly lighted kitchen. 'I never went back on to the ice at all, after I left Phil. I Just went the other way, as fast as ever my lfu* could carry me and pitched thorn* ha timers into a corner of tbe fenrv, tie first thing. I bad no idea where I ,«« going but I was so disgusted with everybody and everything, and myself in particu lar, that all I thought of was to getaway out of sight, somewhere. 'I hadn't gone far when a man came along in a buggy. 'Give ine a rid6? savs I. 'Hop in,' says be. 'Rather hard travelling,'says I,'Yes,'sajs he 'I got caught by the snow last night that comes,' says he, 'of travelling on Sunday.' We got acquainted as we rode aloug, snd I found out be was a horse doctor, apd that he lived at the Port. I I said I was going there to look for a situation ana tola him I knew a good deal more about horses than I suppose was exactly consistent with( tbe truth. You see, as be talked horse, I talked horse out of sympathy. We made a few stops, and got to his house about noon then he asked me to dinner, and after dinner be said he could give me a job if I would like one. He bad a pair of horses on his hands tbat be wanted to send up into New Hampshire to be boarded for the winter and offered me five dollars if I would go and taku care of them on the way. He paid me in advance and tbe next day I started, went by railroad and got to the place tbe next night. It was a country tavern and the landlord said he couldn't keep the team, although be bad agreed to, for bis hostler bad just left bim, and be didn't know about hiring another. 'Maybe,' says I, 'you like to hire me?' We struck a bargain in about a minute, and I went to work, thinking I was going to be in clover. 'I staid with him until yesterday morning, when I left in a hurry. I couldn't stand it any longer. I tell ye, 'twas rough. Big job and small pay. I began to think of home, and came to the conclusion I'd been a dunce to leave it.'

But why did you leave It, Clint?' asked Phil. 'Your getting angry with me was no good reason.' 'Well, I had got mad with the old folks, too.'

But was there nobody else you cared foi?' •Well—yea—no—fact is,' said Clint, 'there was another thing tbat disgusted me. You know you left me the night before with—you know wbo. Well, I may as well own it. I staid and made a fool of mvseif. She didn't care that for me,' Clint snapped bis fingers. 'I found 'twas somebody e&$she cared fqr and that nomebody else made mo mad as fnry, next morning, in tbe tool house.'

Phil rose somewhat hurriedly after this, and took bis bat. 'Don't go!' cried Clint. 'That's all right now, ye know.' 'Yes glaa you've forgiven me. But I —I've a little matter of ousiness to look after. And as I've heard the rest of your story, I'll see you in the morning,Clint.'

With these words, Phil hastened away, to look after the 'little matter of business' tbat had so suddenly claimed his attention, leaving Clint to relate to the old people how he bad tbat day walked all tbe way from the Port, ana met the late foreman, after crossing the pond. 'So. you thought I was in the ice, this winter, with a vengeance, did ye? Now, if tbat ain't tbe coolest joke!' 'Yes,'said uncle Jim, 'and we were talkin'about hevin' a funeral sermon preached for you.'

Whereupon tbe young man almost went into convulsions of laughter. I wish I'd known it. I'd nave staid away.put on false whiskers and goggles, and come to my own funeral. Wouldn't it have been rich? 'Tain't often a man can do that. Wonder if tbe minister would have made me out a saint? Ho, ho, ho! Why did\t I know of it, and come to my own funeral? Tbere never was such a rare chance for sport, and, by George, I've missed it!' _____

A GOLDEN WEDDING, AFTER ALL.

In tbe meanwhile, Mr. Phil Kermer walked very fast, and in a very extra ordinary direction for a man of business at tbat time of night—namely, to uncle Jim's door,* when he knew Aery well tbat uncle Jim wasn't at h"me. He seemed to think It necessary that Emma should be at onoe informed or the joyful news of Clint's resurrection. It was joyful news, indeed, his coming conveyed to ber—the door opening, aud be himself appearing almost like oneralsed from tbe dead, to eyea eyea even then red with weeping—not for Clint.

When uncle Jim returned home, and found a happy couple sitting up for blm (of course tbey couldn't have been ait ting up for anything else at tbat time of night), Mr. Phil'a little matter of business seemed to have been quite satisfactorily arranged.

One other little matter remained for Phil to attend to on reaching his own lodgings which waa, to destroy tbe letter he bad written to the President of tbe Ice Company, and to write another in ita place, which eonaisted of two words, simply: '/accept.'

Tbe next day Phil entered oo hia new dutiea aa foreman, with an energy that augured well for his own future, and for the intercuts of tbe Company.

Tbe harvest bad begun an army of men and horses were at work, cutting fields of Ipe Into checkers, and breaking op these' checkers Into blocks to be raised by machinery, and stored In tbe great ice hoase* when, toward noon, farmer Corbett, who bad been kept away from the ponl by an attack of rheumatism, came limping along, with a puckered and aoflfering countenance, to see what was going on. 'We've begun to cut, you see,' said Phil. 'And Clint has been found.' 'You dont say! Where? 'I diaooveredjbim, when taking a look at the iae off Jonea's abore.' •I tolled ye sol I telled ye *o!' said tbo prophet, although tbe spot Indicated waa half a mile from the deep water which his theory favored. 'Exactly what I aaid. Froxe In the ioe, wasn't be? Ye remember what I telled ye.' 'Not precisely

to the loo—be was

walking en tbe ioa,' said Phil.

URDAY EVENJJSIG MAIL,

•Not drowned?' oried the old farmer, with alarm. 'Not a bit of it but alive and well, Mr. Corbett.'

Whereat tbe weather prophet'a coun tenance, which had brightened wonder fully a moment before, assumed once more its puokered and suffering expresaion, and be was observed to limp away more painfully than eve?. At first, he professed an utter disbelief in Clint's return to life, declaring it to be 'agin' natur', and agin reason but after be bad beheld with his own eyea the miracle, by tbe young man moving about bodily on tbe pond (for Clint waa 'in the ice' again, with hia friend Phil), be consoled himself by saying that 'if tbe feller bad a' been drownded, he'd a' been found exae'ly as be telled 'em.'

Clint got along very well with Phil, and, consequently, with everybody else on the pond, after this. We must here do him the justice to add, that he gets along very well with the old folks, too. A fortnight's rough experience as hostler snd man-of-all work in a country tavern*, under a bard master, bad pre pared him to appreciate tbe privileges and com forta of home while tbe great change tbat bad taken place in hia grandparents did much to bring about a reform of manners in bim.

Clint missed tbe chance of attending his own funeral, but be bad something, i, quite as good in its stead.

Did you think, Jonathan,' said old lady Dracutt, one day, 'that that was the fiftieth anniversary of our weddin' the night 'fore Clinton went away?' 'Yes and I've thought on't a good deal since,'replied the old man. 'I'm sorry it should have passed so. Some people have a golden weddin' on that anniversary. I don't think we desarvea golden one exactly but if any old oouple ever needed to set an example of bein' married over again, in anew sperit, it's you and me, Jane. Don't you think so?' 'I do! I do! I wiBh that anniversary wasn't passed though maybe it ain't too late to nave our golden weddin' now. Our unnat'ral way of livin together has been known to everybody so long, 1 feel as if I'd like to make some publio pro fessiou of our change of leelin's—just have our friends come in an see us married over again, ip abetter sperit, a& y6u say.'

Friends favored the idea,aud proffered their assistance and so it happened that, instead of a funeral in the old Dracutt bouse, tbere was, before many daya, a golden wedding.'

The peculiar circumstances of the occasion invested it with extraordinary interest everybody seemed eager to witness the second marriage of an aged couple who had lived separated under tbe same roof, without speaking to each other for so many years. Their first marriage, fifty years before, bad been called a romantic one but this, all things considered, was even more romanticit was certainly far more significant— than tbat.

Old and young were precent, a houseful of guests—those who bad lived through the great experience of wedded life, and those who were just entering upon it, with youthful passions ana rainbow-colored hopes. Nor were absent little children, yet innocent of the sweet but awful knowledge of love. All Emma's little flook were there, even down to little S say, whose dancing, golden culs and cherubic cheeks presented a strange contrast to the gray hairs and wrinkles of the aged pair. Dear laugbter-lovii child! the world was all before her now, while tbey were leaving it fast behind them. Little -thought she tbat she would ever grow old, and grizz'ed. and infirm like them. Yet that aged bride, so bent, was once a beauteous, beaming child like ber and' wbo knows what shadowy care may come on tbe wings ef tbe

Bwift

years to

darken and trouble tbat little one's dream of lift-? For when seventy birthdays mere shall have passed over ber, and her golden wedding day shall bave come, and she looks back to this day, will the long life between, with all its joys and disappointments seem anything else but a dream?

All tbe old people wbo oould be found, that had been present at Jonathan and Jane's first wedding, were invited to this and, strange and sad to say, only four out of all that happy company could be obtained—three besides cousin Jim!

What a solemn commentary was tbat upon the fleeting shows of the world! Iflength of years and worldly pleasure and gain were all of life, it would not seem to amount to very much, after all —do you rally think it would, my octogeranian friend?

It was a sad though happy occasion to tbe aged bride and bridegroom, and when after tbe wedding ceremony, friends crowded around to congratulate tbem, tbey could not refrain from tears. 'I feel,' said old man Dracutt, 'that we are married now, not for time but for eternity. I don't regret tbat life is short, but that so much of our life has been misspent.' 'Don't say your experience of life haa not been good and useful to you,.' cried cheery old uncle Jim. 'I'm aartain it has.' 'Yes, in one respect it surely has,' said Jane, smiling through ber tears. 'Tbe babit of not speaking to each other, under any pro vocation .beats everything in the way of discipline I ever beard of. It has given me a command of my own temper, which maybe 1 could never bare got fn any other way. Try it, you that need such a discipline—but not in tbe way we did. Ob! if people would only learn to bridle tbe tongue, what a mortal Paradise married life might be!' •Wal, wall.' cried uncle Jim, determined tbat the occasion should pasa off joyously 'I don't see but what you have about as much to be thankful for as any of us. Clint has come home, all tbe wiser for bis little trip up into New Hampshire, and—' 'And we nave got gut of the ice, too.' aaid old man Dracutt, smiling 'for It was we that bave been frozen all tbe time without knowin' It.' 'Ye», yes but you're thawed out now, and all our hearts are softer and better for your experience. Old age ain't sncb a bad thing I want our young frlenda here to learn from us to night tbat It ain't. I believe I grow cheerfuller than ever as I grow older, and it will alwaya

you say, Jane—only as a discfpi a preparation for a higher and futur.' •If I can get to look at It fn tbat way, then I sbant feel that so much of

happier

II baa bern wasted,' aaid tbe bridegroom, shaking uncle Jim'a hand. 'But, O my friendsl' shaking bands with tbe younger gneata. 'may you be saved from the necessity or such a discipline aa wo bave bad. TO avoid that, take from me one word of advice—especially yon that are about to marry never lot anything stand In tbe

way

or perfect

haraKmy

and

tru»t In one another but give up everything for LOVE!' I dont know how it bippened, but tbe old man looked very particularly A Emma Wei ford and Phil Kermer aa hi said this.

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NATtHAL SELEITIOK. Investigators of natural science have demonstrated boyond controversy, that throughout the animal kiugdom the "survival of the fittest" is the only law that vouchsafes .hrift and perpetuity. Does not the same principle govern tho commercial prosperity ef man? An inferior eannot supersede a superior article. By reason of superior merit, Dr Fleice's Standanl Medicines have outrivaled all others. Their sale in tbe United States alone exoeeds one million dollars per annum, while the amount, exported foots up to several hnudred thousand more. No business could grow to such gigantic proportionBana rest upon any other basis than that of merit. Dr. Sage's Catarrh Remedy

Pi is Pleasant to Use. |1. ?•..

Dr. Sage's Catarrh Remedy

Its Cures extend over a period of 20 years.

Dr. Sage's Catarrh K« nply

Its sale constantly increases.

Dr. Sage's Catarrh Item edy

Cures by its Mild, Soothing Effect.

Dr. Sage's Catarrh Remedy

Cures "Coldyu Head" and Catarrh, or Oscena. SET

AN OPEN LETTER.

IT SPEAKS FOR 1TSCLF. ROCK PORT^Mass., April 2,1877. MR. EDITOR:—Having

Hall, fueblo,Col Wra E Bartri, Sterlin

Mrs Nancy Graham, Forest Cove, Oreg.

Golden Medical Discovery

Is Alterative, or BlooJscle&ntlng.

gogue properties render it an remedy for Biliousness: Torpid "Liver Complaintand its Too

Dr. Delebon

—j Googh Specific cures this dlseasi ineoe week* tDaa. If need generally, 11 will save the lives of hundreds. Do not let yon* ehlld die ef whooping eoogh when on* bottleof this Specific wUlcnreit. •rstesall tbe severer symptoms within th* first twenty-aour boom. For sale by O CLICK

and Bronx A Aaaaraoxo, Terr*

Maate. lnL

a week in jroar own town. Term* and 15outfit free. Address M. HALLETT CO., Portland, Main®.

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ivad in your paper

reports of the remark able cures of catarrh, lam induced to tell "waat I know about catarrh, aud 1 fancy the "*nufl a "in-haiing-tubt" makers (mere dollar grabbers) would be glad if the.v oould eniblazon a similar cure in the papers. For 26 years I suffered with catarrh. The na*al passages became completely closed. "Snuff/' "dust," "ashes," Inhaling tubes," and "sticks," wouldn't work, though at intervals I would sniff up theso calleu catarrh* snuff, until I became a valuable Uster for *uch medicines. I gradual grew worse, and no one can know how much I suffered or what a,. miserable being 1 was. My head ached* over my eyes so that 1 was confined to my bed for many successive days, suffering the' most intense pain, which atone time lasted' continuously for 168 hours. All sense of,,.,, smell and taste gone, sight aud hearing im-"-paired, body shrunken aud weakened,#ti' nervous system shattered, and constitution broken, and I was hawking and splttlnc even eights of the time. 1 prayed for death, to relieve me of my sufferiug. A lavorablet notice in our paper or Dr. Sage's Catarrh? Remedy induce^ me to purchahe a package, and use it with Dr. Pierce's Naal Douche, which applies the remedy by hydrostatic*' pressure, the only way compatible with common sense, well, Mr. Editor, it did not cure me in three-fourths of a second,^ nor in one hour or month, but iu less thaai... eight minutes I was relieved, aud in three* months entirely cured, and have ren alnedu so for ever six een months. While uslng^, the Catarrh Remmed, I used Dr. Pierced Golden Medical Discovery to purify iny^ blood and strengthen my stomaoh. I also kept my liver active and my bowels regular'' by tho use of bis Pleasant Purgative P3leUk&< If my experience will induce other sufferers^ to seek the same means of relief, this letter*" will have answered its pursosc.

Yours truly, 8. D. RE MICK.

A CLOIIO OF WITNESSES. '*/,{ The following named parties are among*-" the tbousauds who have been cured of ca-ki

tarrh

by the use of Dr. 8age's Cutarrh Remedy ift A. F. Downs. New Geneva, l'a D. Brown. St. Josef h, Mo EC Lewis, Rutland, j,0 Charles

Vt Levi Springer, Nettle Lake, 0 Charles^ Norcrop, North Chesterfield, i\le Mf' Jones. Scrlba, N Miller, brltlgerta tlon, Wyo JOMerrimao, Logansport, Jud

Ale Milton

Post, Logan sport, iud Bailey,:. Tremont, fa Ay res, La Porto, lnd Jesse Sears, Fort Branch, lnd Wllliams. Canton. Mo W A Thayer, Ouarga, ,. Ill: SB Nicbois, Jr, Galveston, Texas Relnert, Stouesville, Pa S W Lusk, McFar-'J land, wis Johnson Williams, Helinic, O Mrs. M. A.turrey, Trenton, Tenn Jos-f lin.Keene, N A Casper, Table Ruok.l W Va Louis Anders, Gaysport, Ohio CU Chase, Elkhart, lnd Mrs Henry Halght,^ tsan Francisco, Cal Mrs E Gallush, Law-y rencevi.U, NY W J. Graham. Adel, Iowa A O Smith, Newmaa, Gs Charles E Rice,f,' Baltimore, Md: Jesse Sears, Carlisle, lnd:,,

Daniel Miller, Fort Wayne, lnd Mrs Minnie Arnaise, 290 Delancy street, Newo-'1 York W Hall, Hastings, Mich WmPi,, Marsum, Lowell, Mass: I Roberts, Mart-1 copa, Ariz: Charles S Delaney, Harrlsburg,* Pa S Cole. Lewell, Mass Mrs Spurtin,, Camden, Ala has Kaw, Fred rick'.own,*" Ohio Mrs Lucy Hunter, Farmington, ill Capt Spanldlng, Camp Stambaugb,, Wyo: I W Tracy, Steamboat Rock, Iow* P' Mrs Lydia Waie, Shusban, NYjJM Peok^H Junction City, Mont Henry Kbe Batatas, Cal L. P. Cumnings, Eantoul, J11: S. Jones, Charleston Four Corners,N Geo,,

Parrott, Montgomery, Ohio L. Ledbrook,r* Chatham, 111 McCoy, NoMhport. Ohio W

Warner, North Jackson, Mich: MissF'S Marv A Winne, Dailen, Wis John Zl gler. u\ a is S in a a in S Cloud. Minn Dinoch Duer. Pawnee lty,« Neb Jot

vivuut viiuii| OMiuvii a uif

Nichols,

vw m/r

Neb: Joseph T. Miller, Xenia, Ohio S Bi Nichols, Galveston, Jexas Laird, Upper Alton,

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John Davis. Presoott, Arl* #«f

Golden Medical Ilsco very a*

p'-i Is Pectoral# 5 fv ."£ !$

Golden Medical Dltcoveiyj

Is a Cholagogoe, or Liver Stimulant.

Golden Medical Discovery?®*

Is Tonic.

Golden Med. cal Discovery' A ii*. Q'f S

By reason or its Alterative properties,r cures Diseases of the Blood aort Main, MFbku Scrofula, or KlagVEviU Tumors Ulcers, or Oid Sores Blotches: Pimples, and ErupUons. fty virtue of its Pectoral properties, cures Bronchial, Throat and Lung Affeo-^..^ tl ns ncloicnt onsumptlon Lingering Coughs, snu Chronic Larj ngit Is Its Chola't an unequalled^.,, torpid Liver, or nplalntand its Tonic propertie* make It equally efficacious In curing^, Indigestion, Loss of Appetite, and rysrpep-u

Where tbe skin is sallow sad covered with blotches and pimples, or where there *f*fare scrofTulous swellings and affections, ap|»

few bottles of Golden Medical Discover will effect an entire core. If von feel dull, drowsy, debilitated, have sallow color of skin, or yellowish-brown spots en face or body, frequent hea ache or dizziness, bad taste in the month, Internal beat or chills alternated with hot flushes, low spirits and r*

goomycoated,

forebodings, lrregulrr appetite, and pri ngue you are suffering irom Torpid Liver, or

l,JBffbumeu.n

in many eases or'"*

lAver Complaint,"only part ef these srmp.ami are experienced. As a remedy for all such eases, Dr. Pierce's Gulden Medical Discovery has no equal it effects perfect cures, leaving the liver strengthened and healthy.

Tbe People's Medical Servant. Dr. R. V. Pierce to the sols proprietor and manufacturer of the foregoing remedies, all of which are sold by drogglws. He is also the author ef the People's common Sense Medical Adviser, a work of near)/ one thousand pages, with two hundred and eighty-two wood-engravings and colored pistes. He has already sold of this popular work

Orer 100,000 Copies t*'

PBICE(peatpsM)ILM.

Address: R. V. PIERCE, M. D., World's Dispensary, Buffalo, N.

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