Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 9, Number 31, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 1 February 1879 — Page 7

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THE MAIL

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE,

Potts' Painless Cure,

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••This is really too absurd, Arnle," and left the room as if in a pet, just in time to escape the outburst he kuew was coming. She sat in the parlor with tlrm-set lips till quite a late hour that evening, hoping that he would come down and give her a chance to set him right with an indignant explanation. So humiliating to her did bis misunderstanding seem, that it was intolerable he should retain it a moment longer, and she felt almost desperate enough to go and knock at his door and correct it. Far too clever a strategist to risk an en countea that evening, he sat in his room comfortably smoking and attending to arrears of correspondence, aware that he was supposed by her to be sulking desperately all the" while. He knew that her feeling wa« anger, and not grief, and while, had ti been the latter, he would have bten thoroughly uncomfortable from sympathy, he only chuckled as bf figured to himself her indignation. At that very moment she was undoubtedly clenching her pretty little fists and breathing fast with impotent wrath in the room below. Ah well, let her heart lie in a pickle of good strong disgust over night, audit would strike in a good deal

more

effectually

than if she were allowed to clear her mind by an indignant explanation on the spot.

The following day he bore himself toward her with the slightly distant air of one who considers himself aggrieved, and attempted no approaches. In the evening, which washer first opportunity, she oame to him and said in atone in which, by this time, weariness and disgust had taken the place of indignation, "You were absurdly mistaken in thinking that Miss Roberts was trying to flirt "Bless your dear, jealous heart!" interrupted Hunt, laughingly, with an air of patronizing affection. "I'd no idea vou minded it so much. There, there 1 Let's not allude to this matter again. No, no! not another word I" he gayly insisted, putting his hand over her mouth as she was about to make another effort to be heard.

He was determined not to hear anything, and she had to leave it so. It was with surprise that the observed how indifferently she finally acquiesced in being so cruelly misunderstood by him. In the deadened state of her feelings, she was not then able to appreciate the entire change in the nature of her sentiments which that indifference showed. Love, though rooted in the past, depends upon the surrounding atmosphere for the breath of continued life, and he had surrounded her with the stifling vapors of disgust until her love had succumbed and withered. She found that his exhibition of conceit and insipidity did not affect her iu the same way as before. Her sensations wern no longer sharp and poignant, bat chiefly a dull shame and sense of disgrace that she had loved him. She met his attentions with a coldly passive manner, which gave him the liveliest satisfaction. The cure was succeeding past all expectation but he had about time for one more stroke, which would make a sure thing of it. He prepared the way by dropping bints that he had been writing some verses of late and finally, with the evident idea that she would be flattered, gave out that his favorite theme was her own charms,and that she might, perhaps, before long receive some tributes from his muse. Her protests be laughed away as the affectations of modestv.

Now Hunt had never actually written a lino of verso in his life, and bad no intenti6n of beginning. He was simply preparing a grand move. From the poet's corner of rural newspapers, and from comic collections, he clipped several specimens of the crudest sort of sentimental trash in rhyme. These he took to the local newspaper, and arranged for their insertion at double advertising rates. A few days later he bustled into the parlor, smirking in his most odious manner, and, coming up to Annie, thrust an open newspaper before her, marked in one corner to call attention to several star JSW "Written for the Express! A

To A G—d.»

With sinking ot heart she took the paper, a»terlHetfectually trying to refuse it, ana Hunt sat down before her with a supremely complacent expression, to await her verdict. With a faint hope that the verses might prove tolerable, she glanced down the lines. It is enough to say that they were the very worst which Hunt, after great industry, had been able to find and there he was waiting, just the other side the paper, in a glow of expectant vanity, to receive her acknowledgments. "Well, what do vou think of it? You needn't try to hide your blushes. You deserve everv word of it, you know, Miss Modesty," he said gayly. "It's very nice,'* replied Annie, making a desperate effort* "I thouaht you'd like It," he said, with self-satisfied assurance. "It'squeer that! a fellow can't lay on the praise too thick to please a woman. By the way, I sent around a copy to Miss Roberts, signed with my initials. I thought you'd like to have her see it."

This last remark he called out after her as she was leaving the room, and he was not mistaken in fancying that it would complete her demoralisation. During the next week or two he brought her copies of the local paper containing equally exeereble effusions, till finally she mustered courage to toll him that she would rather he wonld not publish any more verses about her. He seemed rather hurt at this but respected her feelings, and after that she used to find, hid in tier books and music, manuscript sonnets which he had laboriously copied out of his comic collection. It was considerable trouble, bu: on the whole be was inclined t) think it paid, and itdkl, especially when he culminated by fitting music to several of the most mawkish effmions, and insisting on her placing and singing them to him. As the poor girl, who felt that out of oommon politeness she could not refuse, toiled wearily through this martyrdom, writhing with secret disgust at everv line, Hunt, lolling in an easy chair behind her, was generally Indulging in series of horrible grimaces and convulsions of I silent laughter, which sometimes leflj tears in bis eyes—to convince Annie,

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There wa9 something so perfectly maddening in this cool assumption that her bitter chagrin on this aeoount was a fond iealousy, that she fairly choked with exasperation, and shook herself away from bs caress as if a suake had stung her. Her thin nostrils vibrated, her red-lips trembled with scorn, and her black eyes flashed ominously. He had only seen them lighten with love before, and it WAS a very odd seusation to see them for the first time blazing with anger, and that against himself. Affecting an

when she turned around to him, that his sentiment was at least genuine if vulgar. Had she happened on one of these occasions to turn a moment bafoie she did, the resulting tableau would have been worth seeing.

Hunt had determined to both crown and crucially test the triumph of Potts' cure in Annie's oass by formally offer Ing himself to her. He calculated of course that she wa9 now certain to re ject him and that was a satisfaction which he thought he fairly owed her. She would feel better for it, he argued, and be more absolutely aure not to regard himself as in anv sense jilted, and that would make bis conscience feel clearer.

Yes, she should certainly have his scalp to bang at her girdle, for he be lieved, as many do, that next to having a man's heart a woman enjoys having his scalp, while many prefer it. Six weeks ago he would have been horrified at the audacity of the idea. His utmost ambition then was to break a little the force of her disappointment at his departure.

Bat the unexpected fortune that had attended his efforts had advanced his standard of sudoess, until nothing could now satisfy him but to pop the question and be refused.

And still as (be day approached, which he had set for the desperate venture, he began to gee very nervous. He thought he had a sure thing if ever a fellow hai, but women were so cursedly unaccountable. Supposing she should take it into her head to accept him! No logic could take account of a woman's whimsies. Then what a pretty fix he would have got himself into, just by a foolhardy freak! But there was a strain of Norso blood in Hunt, aud in spite of occasional toucher of ague the risk of the scheme had in itself a certain fascination for him. And yet he couldn't help wishing be had carried out a dozen despsrate devices for disgusting her with him, which at the time had seemed to him too gross to be safe from suspicion.

The trouble was that since he loved her no more he bad lost the insight which love only gives into the feeling* of another. Then her every touch and look and word was eloquent to his reuses as to the precise state of her feeling toward him, but D3W he was dull and insensitive to such direct intuition. He could not longer feel, but could only argue as to how she might be minded toward him, and this it WHS which caused him so much trepidation in spite of so many reasons why he shohld be confident of the result. Argument as to another's feelings is such a wretched substitute for the intuition of sympathy.

Finally on tha eveninar before the day on which he was to offer himself, the last of his stay at the Giffords', he got into such a panic that, determined to clinch the assurance of bis safety, he asked her to play a game of cards and then managed that she should see him cheat two or three times. The recollection of the co'd disgust on her face as he bade her good evening was so re-assur-ing that he went to bed and slept like a child in the implicit confidence that four horses couldn't drag that girl into an engagement with him the next day.

It was not till the latter p*rt of the afternoon that he could catch her alone long enough to transact his little business with her. Anticipating or at least apprehending his design she took the greatest pains to avoid meeting him, or to have her mother with her when she did. She would have given almost anything to escape his offer. Of course she could reject it, but fastidious persons do not like to have unpleasant objects put on their plates, even if they have not necessarily to eat them. But her special reason was that the scene would freshly bring up and emphasize the whole of the wretched history of her former infatuation and its miserable ending—an experience every thought of which was full of shame and strong desire for the cleansing of forgetfulness. He finally cornered her in the parlor alone. As she saw him approaching and realized that there was no escape she turned and faced him with her small figure drawn to its full height, compressed lips, pale face, and eyes tnat plainly said, "Now have it over with as soon as possible." One hand resting en the tablu was clenched over a book. The other, hanging by her side, tightly grasped a hand kerchief. "Do you know I've been trying to get a chance to speak with you alone all day?" he said. "Have you?" she replied, in a perfectly inexpressive tone. "Can't you guess what I wanted to say to you?" "I'm not good at conundrums." "I see you will not help me," he went on, and then added quickly, "it's a short stpry will you be my wifr?"

As be said the word* he felt as the Hou-tamer does when be puts hh head In the lion's jaws. He expects to take It out again, but if the lion should take a notiou His suspense, however, *vas of the shortest possible duration, for instantly, like a reviving sprinkle pn a fainting face, the words fell on his

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"i thank you for the honor, but I'm sure we are not suited." Annie had conned her answer on many a sleepless pillow and bad it by heart.. It came so glibly although in such a constrained and agitated voice that he instantly knew it must have been long cut and dried.

It was now only left for him to do a decent amount of urging aud then acquiesce with dignified melancholy and go off laughing in his sleeve. What is be thinking of to stand there gazing at her downcast face as if he were daft?

A strange thing had happened to him. The sweet familiarity of each detail in the

petite

figure before him was impress­

ing nls mind as never before, now that he had achieved his purpose of putting it beyond the possibility of his own possession. The little bands be had held so often in the old days, conning each curve and dimple, reckoning them more bis hands than were his own, and for more dearly so, the wavy hair he bad kissed so fondly and delighted to touch, the deep, dark eyes under their long lashes like forest lakes seen through environing thickets, eyes that he had found his home in through so long and happy a time—why, they were his! Of course he had never meant to really forfeit them, to lose them, and let them go to anybody else. The idea was preposterous—was laughable. It was indeed the first time it had occurred to him in that light. He had only thought of her as losing him scarcely at all of himself as losing her. During the whole time be bad been putting himself in her place so constantly that he had failed sufficiently to fully canvass the situation from his own point of view. Wholly absorbed in estranging her from him, be bad done nothing to estrange himself from her.

It was rather with astonishment, and even appreciation of the absurd, thas anv sarfous apprehension, that he now suddenly saw how be badstultifled himself, and oome near doing himself a fatal Injury. For, knowing that her present estrangement was wholly his work, it did not occur to him but that he coald undo it as easily as he bad done it. A word would serve the purpose and make

all right again. Indeed his revulsion of feeling so altered the aspect of every thlug that he quits forgot that any explanation at all was neoessary, and, after gazing at her for a few moments while his eves, wet with a tenderness new and delioiously sweet, roved fondly from ber head to ner little slipper, aoating on each feature, he just put ont his arms to take her with some old familiar phrase of love on bis lips,

She sprang away, her eye flashing with anger. He looked so much taken abaok and diaoomfitted. that she paused in mere wonder, as she was about to rush from the room, "Annie, what doea this mean?" he stammered. "Oh, yes—why—my darling, don't you know—didn't you guess —it was all a joke—a stupid joke? I've just been pretending."

It was not a very lucid explanation, but ahe understood, though only to be plunged in greater amazement. "But what tor?" she murmured. "I didn't know I loved you," he said slowly, as if recalling with difficulty, and from a great distance his motives, "and I thought it was kind to cure you of your love for me by pretending to be a fool. I think I must have been cruzy, dou't you?" and he smiled in a dazed, deprecating way.

Her face from being very pale began to flush. First a red spot started out in either cheek then they spread till tbey covered the cheeks next her forehead took a roseate hue and down her neck the tide of oolor rushed, and she stood there before him a glowing statue of outraged womanhood, while in the midst her eyes sparkled with scorn. "You wanted to cure me," she said at last, in slow, concentrated tones, "and you have succeeded. You have insulted me as no woman was ever insulted before."

She paused as if to control herself for ber voice trembled with the last words. She shivered, and her bosom heaved once or twice convulsively. Her features quivered scorching tears of shame rushed to her eyes, and ske burst out hysterically '"For pity's sake never let me see you again!"

And then he found himself alone.

MARK HAVERLY.

A MAN WITH GOOD HIM.

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TERRE HAIJTE SATURDAY EVEN IN MAIL.

LEATHER IN

He was an engineer working in the Belcher. He was noted for his grit, attention to business and superstitions. One day a comrade was passing, and Mark called him up with

Jack, do you hear that noise—a sort of grinding sound that oomes and goes? Hark! can't you hear it now?" "It's just like any machinery makes." "No, no, Jack it don't belong to the machinery it's a voice, I tell you, from the other world. I've heard that sound for two days now, and It means death, death olose at hand and no power on earth can stave it off." "Oil the engine a little, old boy, and it'll be all right."

The other passed on and went down the shaft. Mark, meanwhile, bent his ear to the machinery, and out of the indistinguishable din of a dozen sounds caught this strange noise which had such an influence upon him, heard it constantly above the clank of levers, the roar of wheels and the hiss of steam. Presently a bell sounded at bis side. It was the signal from the 2,003 level to hoist the cage. He pressed the lever and the great reel began to whirl the cable from the lower depths. His eye followed the long finger

of

the Indicator as it

slowly pointed out the stations passed. The cage had almost reached the top when the horrible grinding noise, like a moan from the grave, came from the machinery at his side. The sound made his veins melt. He turned his head toward the spot, shuddering, while his hand, as it clasped the lever, was like a child's. The cage shot up from the shaft's mouth he grasped the lever and threw his weight upon the brake. It was too late the cage rushed into the "sheaves."

The floor of the cage became vertical as it struck the wheel. The cable stretched under the fearful strain, and then snapped like a thread, and the cage fell back to the shaft's mouth. Three of its occupants bad leaped upon the timbers and hung suspended the other vo had made the same leap, but their fingers slipped from the slimy timbers, made so by the long contact with the vapors arising from the mine, and tbey fell one after the other headlong down the shaft.

Meanwhile Mark had stopped his engine, resumed his coat and staggered out of the works.

On such occasions an engineer is considered discharged without notice. He actually ceases to be in the employ of the company wheu the cage strikes the "sheaves," and such an accident makes hia discbarge perpetual with every mine on the Comstock.

For the next week or two he wandered about the town like a man barely in his senses. He finally got work under ground, but was oftener found somewhere about the hoisting works, near the machinery.

He would at times sit for hours watch ing the work or those metallio giants, occasionally turning toward the mouth of t'ae shaft with a shudder, and bending his head to catch what he called the •death moan." His comrades said be as "alittle off."

One day the writer entered into a conversation with him. His superstition had not left him. "I tell you," said he, "I've studied everything about a mine, above ground and below. You brutes who write for the press take a sneering view of everything. You laugh when I say yn engine gives warning of death. Yon call this piece of machinery a thing inanimate. I tell vou that it has a construction in all respects like a man, It has lungs and sinews, and a big heart that throbs and pulsates. It bss its fatigues from overwork. At times it wMrls merrily, and work seems nothing then it groans and labors as If exhausted. We treat it as we do the sick. When its lungs get clogged with "scale," we feed it a composition that makes it well again. It has a voice always, mnd roars, sings,

laughs and sobs in torn. When touch a lever I feel a magnetism such as flows from flesh and blood. "The dark levels below us are full of mysteries. I learn more and more of its socrets everv year. You remember bow Jack Hei\ly" died, He feinted on the Ophir cage and went down th# shaft. A few days before, I noticed as I worked beside him how tbe flame of his candle pointed directly toward him like a mariner's needle. Wherever be moved tbe flame followed. He didn't notice it, but I did, and it bad a wavy, uncertain motion for a dav or so. One day it became steady, as steady as if carved In stone. I knew tbe crisis was not far oft We came np on the cage as we passed tbe first station tbe flame burned low and station it was almost at the twelve-fifty it went oat Jack reeled timbers and was twist-

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ne. Suddenly against tn ed under the cage at once. It was bnt a moment. I beard bis dreadful cry ring out as hia bones were crashed between

tbe stage floor and tbe timbers, and bis body shot down tbe shaft. Hawkins, who used to work for Joe Oowau, bad tbe same kind of a warning, Wherever be wort ad a shadow kept closeiobimon tbe rook, His lantern made one shadow, bnt this vrn a deeper and darker one, and bad separate motions, and it seemed to get blacker every shift be worked, till a blast tore away bisohest. I have seen a man's light blow out, and, In a sort of wlll-o'-tbe-wisp, keep right over bis bead. Such a man bad better leave tbe mines at once. "When I worked in the Savage I nsed to sees shift of speotres working, most generally at tbe root of tbe incline, but sometimes in the east drift of tbe 1750. There was about half a dozen of 'em at work, as a rule, but sometimes more. They would piok away in the faee of tbe drift and make no sound, and pale lights burned at tbeir sides. When the five o'clock wbistie blew in tbe morning they would vanish.

Once 1 saw a man sitting down on the steps of the inoline he was in tbe way and I touched him on tbe shoulder. Heavens! how I sprang back for there was no flesh and bono there—only a shadow as it were. He turned round, and his face was half gone and bis shoulder borne away, from a blast. Blood was streaming from tbe wounds. He then walked down the Inoline and melted into the vapors that rise from tbe waters of tho sump. The next day John Owens slipped at the very spot, and, unable to hold on to tbe slimy timbers, fell into tbe boiling water. He was cooked like a lobster.

At times one bears strange voices. Ghostly voices call to each other from drift to drift there are whisperings in tbe rocks and terrible groans in tbe sides of the cross cuts. In tbe Balcber I ones heard a fearful shriek oome from tbe winze. It echoed from drift to drift and startled everybody. I rushed to whero the sound was, but there was nothing. Bill Sharon don't dare to go down the Yellow Jaoket. Tbe last time be did a troop of miners sheeted in flime followed him along the drafts to tbe foot of the shaft. He rushed to the

cage

like a

mad man and rang for tbe quick hoist. When the cage reached tbe top he lay on the floor insensible. He never told what it was but I know."

Thus the poor fellow would spend hours telling of tbe mysterious sights and sounds be had encountered in the depths of tbe great lode. Sometimes he worked underground, but be always seemed discontented, even morose, because it was no longer permitted to bim to grasp tbe lever of an engine. He felt a stain upou his reputation BBd looked forward hopefully to the time wheu be could wipe it out.

The opportunity came. One night he came into the South Consolidated works and sat watching the machinery. Suddenly he turned to the engineer and said"I bear the death-moan on the wheels, Tom."

Had the engineer looked at Mark's face, masked in a horrible pallor, be would have indeed thought the man had heard a sob from tbe grave. Mark bent his head a little lower and waited. Out of the roar and rumble be heard only the "deaih-moan," as he called it. Suddenly the bell rang out so qnlck and sharp that both- men were startled. It was the signal of danger and the quick hoist. The wheel began to whirl until the spokes mingled in a maze. A moment later, a puff of smoke drifted from the shaft's mouth and then a shower of sparks. The mine was on fire.

The cage came whizzing t» the surface, aud a crowd of half naked men reeled off, blistered and half suffocated, into tbe dressing rooms. The wbistie of the mine sent forth a cry for help, and, in a few seconds more, other whistles took up the cry and bellowed forth their hoarse notes, from the North Consolidated to the Belcher. Soarcely was the cage emptied when those below signaled sharply for it to come down. It shot back into the depths almost as fast as if it had been dropped. The cable touched a piece ef iron near the sheaves, and from tbe point of contact streamed a line of sparks. Another burst of smoke came up tbe shaft and a sheet of flame followed for an instant. The timbers became a ma-s of fire. The hoistingworks went like a tinder box.

The engineer must not only bring thfc cage to the surface, but must stop it there. The machinery was growing hot to the touch. The cage reached the bottom and then came the signal to hoist. Just as he reversed the lever a falling timber knocked himsenselesat his post.

A dozen men sprang to tbe unmanned engine but Mark was there first, aud, picking up the body at bis feet, he bandedit to tbe nearest two men as if it had been a child, and merely said: "Take him away."

A man close at bis side leaned forward to grasp the lever, but lie flung bim back into tbe crowd. A flare of flames sent all staggering away. Mark laid bis hand upon the lever—tbe first tyrae in five years—and grasped It with his old energy, tfhe breath of hell was in his lace. It would be a long minute and a half before tbe cage reached the surface, where be must prevent its dreadful ascent into tbe "sheaves." His band held the lives of a dozen men. He faccd the fire like a salamander. A prolonged cheur went up and tbe folds of red smoke covered bim from sight.

The dage reached the shaft's mouth full of men. most of them insensible as they were dragged out. As Mark threw tbe lever back to its place and stopped tbe engine tbe flames closed about bim. The superintendent called out: "One thousand dollars to* tbe man wbo saves him!"

A dozen brave men had alretuly started. It was too late the flames bad overwhelmed him. Three days later tbe men whose lives he had saved dug among tbe rains. Lying by the engine tbey found bis charred remains and stood by tbem awhile with uncovered beads. 'They bore away tbe remains of Mark Haverly in a box and the next day three thousand mourners walked behind the coffin. As tbey pressed down the earth over his grave, and threw tbe last sprig of green down upon it, one of the pall-bearers remarked "There was

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Saturday Evening

"MAIL, FOR THE YEAR

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A MODEL WEEKLY PAPER FOR THE HOME.

TERMS:

Oneyear^. 2 00 Six months....... tl 00 Three months, .,..^^60 eta.

Mail and office Subscriptions will, lnvari* ably, be discontinued at expiration of time: paid for.

Encouraged by he extraordinary success which has attended the publication of THB SATURDAY EVENING MAIL the publish* er has perfected arrangements by whleh it will henceforth be one of the Jaost popular papers in the West.

THE SATURDAY EVENING MAIL is an Independent Weekly Newspaper, elegantly printed on eight pages of book paper, and aims to be, in every sense, a Family Paper. With this aim in view, nothing will appear in its columns that canuot be read aloud ia the most refined fireside circle.

CLUBBING WITH OTHER PERIODICALS. We are enabled to offer extraordinary in* ducements in the way of clubbing with other periodicals. We will furnish THE SATURDAY EVENING MAIL, PRICE 12.00 PER YEAR, and any of the periodicals enumerated below at greatly reduced rates. Thest periodicals will be sent direct from the offices of publication. Here is the list:

SEMI-WEEKLY.

Bemi-Weekly New York Tribune, price 18.00, and The Mall 94 50

WEEKLY PAPERS.

Indianapolis Journal, price 92.00, and Tne Mail »8 00 rndianapoU* Sentinel, price 92.00, and

The Mail 98 00. Indianapolit Weekly News and The MuU...^.. 92 70 N. Y. Tribune, prlce92.00, and The Mail ti 6u Toledo Blade, price 92.00, and The Mail 8 65 AT. y. Bun, and The Mail 8 Prairie Farmer price 92.00 and The Mall 8 S5 Wettern Rural, price 52.50 and The Mail 8 5b Chicago Advance, price, 93.00, and The

Mail

4 50

Chicago Interior, price 92.50, and The Man ... Chicago Inter-Ocean, price 91.60, and

4 oo

Th$ Mail. Apgleton's Journal, price $4.00, and The

8 26

5 85

Rural New Yorker, price 93.00, and The Mail 4 26 Methodist, price 92.50, and The Mail 8 51) Harper'» Weekly, price 94.00, and The

Mail a 60 Harper's Bazar, price 94.00, and Tbe Malt 5 56 Frank Leslies Illustrated Newspaper, price 94.00, and The Mail 5 00 Leslies Chimney Corner, price 94.00, aud

The Mail 5 00 Boys' and Of iris' Weekly, price 92.50, and -The Mail 3 75

MONTHLIES.

Arthur Home Magazine price 92.50 ana Tbe Mail 94 00 Peterson's Magazine, price 92,00, and The

Mail 8 56 American Agriculturist, price 91.50 and The Mail 3 00 Demorest's Monthly, price 93,00, and

The Mail 4 26 Godey's Lady's Book, price 93.00, and The Mail 4 25 Little Corporal, price 91 -50 and The Mall 8 16 Scribner's Monthly, price 94.00, and The

Mail 5 8ii Atlantic Monthly, price 94.00, and The Mail Harper's Magazine, price 94.00, and The

Mali 5 5c Hardener's Monthly, price 92.00-aud The Mai) 8 Young Folks Rural, and The Mail The Nursery, price 91.50, au The Mail 3 10 8t. Nicholas, price 93.00, and Th« Mall 4 41'

Alltheprenuurns offered by tne above pub lications are included in this clubbing arrangement.

Addret* F. H. WKSTFALL, ^abli*n*-r Saturday Evening Mail. TKRBKHAUTE. IN

Cancer Cured.

Br. Roat, of Peoria, Illinois, bs» discovered perfect cure for CAXCJEIt Without the use ofthe knife. Dr. Rose is a graduate *nd a thoroughly educated physician who Ms made the treatment of Cancer a specialty for twenty years. Numerous persons, afflicted with Cancer, in almost every state in tbe Union, who wonld long since hare been dead bad not been for the great efficacy of bis treatment, aro now Urine witnesses of the wonderful cores performed. VT. BOSS' grat success in the treatment of all chronic, private, and wasting diseases, that naTo hitherto been looked upon as incurable, has given him a wide reputation. His medicines are selected ana prepared with great care from herbs, and roots, barks, and leaves of the trees of all nations. Patients from* distance (except in Cancer cases), by writing a roll description of their »ymptoms, will be treated at homo. Medicine sent by express or mall everywhere, wme or call. All letter* confidential. Circulars sent free.

Address, Dr. JD. D. Ilossf 303 Main Street? Peoria, IUinoU.

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It Uiapowib tor-main long sick or out of health, where Hop Bitters are used." Why do Hop Bitter* cure so much?" "Because they give good digestion, rich blood aed healthy action of all the organs, "No matter what your feeling* or ailment Is, Hop Bitwr* wbl do you good."

Rememlwr, Hop Bitter* cever does harm, but good, always and continually. Purify the b!ouJ. cleanse the stomach, and sweeiiexi the eath with Hop Bitters. "Quiet nerves and balmy sleep in Hop Rltterv''

No health with inactive liver aud urinary organs without Hop Bitters." TRY HOP COUtf CURE AND PAIN RE­

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