Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 19, Number 35, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 23 February 1889 — Page 7

THE MAIL.

A PAPER

FOR THE

PEOPLE.

A Very Substantial Ghost.

Mattie Dyer Brltts in Peterson'b Magazine.]

One evening, I went home to my wife with some wonderful news. I had juot .learned from the lawyers than an old ancle of ours, over in Jersey, from whom we never expected a dollar, was dead, £\nd had left us the bnlJk of his property, including the country-house where he died.

There was another nephew who had -alwayH lived with Uncle Si, and expected to be his heir but he was a thorougkly bad fellow, rive to all sorts of evil ways, and the old man, after trying in vain to reform this sinner, cut nim off with a few hundred dollars, and, and to •our great surprise, made me the heir.

When I reached home and told Sue, «he could hardly believe the good news. "Oh, Charley!" she cried, "if it is true, we can stop this endless paying rent, •and have a home of our own at last!'' "It is certainly true," I replied. "IVe gone over all the business with White and Humphreys, and we can take pos«ession of our country-seat as soon as we like. There is only one small drawback.' "•No rose without a thorn,'" quoted &ae, laughingly. "Well, what is it, Charley?" "It's a gbest, my dear!»' "A ghost? What do you mean "There's a report that the house haunted." "Haunted? Nonsense!" "The neighbors declare that ever since Uncle Si died, strange lights have been «een in the house, odd noises heard, and a white-robed ghost known to wander About the promises." "How absured!" cried Sue. "You know I can't give up my city business, and, if we do go there to live, you and Sarah will be left much alone,

"I'll answer for Sarah," deolared Sue. interrupting me wlthoutthe leastregard for courtesy. "She is not afraid of the world, the flesh, nor the—other follow! Neither am I, when she's around."

Sarah was our servant, a grini old maid from *way down East, ug*y as sin, but possessing all the spirit and energy of uer stout-hearted progenitors. "I don't doubt Sarah's ability to scare anything mortal," I remarked, dryly. "But, wuen it comes to a ghost—' "When will vou take me to see the place?" inquired Hue, interrupting me without niensv a seoond time, and not •condescending to notice my observation. "Whenever you please. To-morrow, if you like," I aiiswered. "The sooner the better," decided Sue. -"We'll go to-morrow."

So, over to Jersey we went, the next day, and drove out to our new inheritance. It was r«aily a fine property, but sadly out of repair. We concluded to take possession at once, and, on our way home, stopped in the village near by to •engage workmen to put things in order, of

ngage worl We heard the ghost from all of them. One said he wouldn't live there

stories

if they'd give him the farm another refused to go at all unless be had oompany and the third was sure that bad luck would attend anybody who tried to stay .in that house.

I was rather sorry that Sue should hear all this but she, like a sensible girl, advised that we should not be influenced by any such sillv stories. Itesides, she added, if these th'ings really were seen and heard, thore must be some natural cause for them, which we would try to •discover and put an end to.

I praised her for being such a brave little soul, and promised to buy her a revolver with which to dofend herself. "I •dont know that you oould shoot a ghost,

If you saw one," I laughingly remarked, "but it will be handy to have, anyhow." "I will use it, rest assured, if his ghostship appoars to me!" returned Sue, in the same spirit.

Just as we drove away from the shop where wo had engaged a carpenter, a well-dressed man with a handsome, wicked face passed by, and gave me suoh a soowl, as he glanoed at me, that I askki Mr. Jackson who he was. "That's your rival, the nephew old Si Hasoomb t^rew over," he answered. "Joo Hasoomb is a hard case. I'm afraid you'll find him your enemy when you come here." "But it's no fault of ours that he lost the proporty. 1 shall not interfere with him unless he bothers me it* which case, he'll be apt to wish he hadn't," "Charley, I am afraid he will do you tome harm," said Sue. anxiously, as we drove on, "He has such a wicked countenance." "Nonsense!" I replied, laughing at her fears. "Why, you dread him more than the ghost 1" "Ob, yea, indeed I do!" cried 8ue. "A bad man is something tangible, and a ghost isn't, you see." "We're in no danger from this one," I returned. But I believed, myself, that, if ever that fellow found a chance to injure us, he would do it. And it was more the recollection of his evil face, than any thought of the ghost, which made me keep my laughing promise to buy Sue the revolver. One dido't know what might happen, and I was sure, if it became ueoessary to use it, she would •do so.

The workmen had the house ready for •us very soon, and we went into our new quarters quite merrily, despito the ghost. For a few days, nothing disturbed us. Then, one night, theliffhts appeared and the noises began. We saw flashes of light at several windows and heard groans and cries but the most rapid and thorough search oould mot discover itheir source.

One evening, as Sue and 1l came home rather late, we distinctly saw a white figure In the path before us but it vanished when we drew near. Sarah saw the same figure twice—once at the front door, once at the corner of the woodshed all three of us saw it looking in at the dinlngroom window, as we sat at supper, one night but, when we rushed out, wo were only greeted by a hollow mocking "Ha! ha!" as if the ghost were deriding our futile efforts to catch hint.

I expected to hear Sue aak to go back to the city but, when I ventured one day to say ao to her, the plucky little woman declared that she was not going to be driven from a lovely home by his ghostahip- but If he wanted to wander •bout for amusement, he bad her pertnlsaion to do so to his entire content. "You're a Jewel, Susie, my dear," said I. "But I wish we could get at the bottom of this business."

That, however, we could not do. It was Impossible that any of the neighbore could be playing us tricks indeed, no one could have a motive for disturbing us, unless it were the man whom the uncle had disinherited—atad he had left the neighborhood just if ore we moved. There seemed to be nr Uiing to do except to bide our time and wait until the mystery had an end of some lnd—as, in the nature of things, it would have before a great while.

One evening, when tastier* had been

unusually qtjiet for several days, Sue and I were chatting, seated in our cozy sitting-room, when she chanced to remember some orders which she had forgotten to give Sarah at suppertime.

Sarah was finishing her ironing in the laundry, a small building a short distance from the dwelling. Sue threw a zephyr scarf over her head and ran across the yard without a thought of fear.

She had hardly been gone a moment, when I waa startled by the report of a pistol, then a groan ana a heavy fall. I rushed out, calling In alarm: "8uel Sue! Are you hurt? Where are you "Here!" promptly responded her clear voice.

And I flew toward her, just as Sarah came running from the laundry with a

^•Nothing only I've shot the ghost," exclaimed Sue, coolly. "It came upon me, right in face, as I waa coming back from the laundry and I fired before I thought." "You did just right!" I cried. "Here, Sarah—bring your light."

As Sarah came near, I stooped over the white robed figure lying at Sue's feet, pulled aside the disguising drapery, and revealing the wicked face of our enemy —Joe Hascomb!

We carried him to an upper room and laid him on the bed the two women watched beside him, while I rode for a doctor. His wound did not prove serious, at which we rejoiced, but he had a tedious fever, through which we nursed him faithfully.

He rose from that'bed a changed man. He confessed himself the author of all the late disturbance: being determined that, if he lost the property, we at least should not enjoy it.

Having his own keys and a perfect knowledge of every nook and corner of his old home, a little ingenuity made the rest easy to him. When ho got well, we offered him a thousand dollars with which to begin a new life. He thankfully accepted it, and went away. We have never neard of him since, nor had any disturbance about our home so we conclude the "ghost" is "laid" forever, and we may live In peace.

MARRIED AN ARAB.

The Romance of Lady Ellenhorough's life Told by Airs. Wallace. Mrs. Lew Wallace in her famous book, "The Repose in Egypt," novr in press, gives nn exceedingly flowery account of Lady Ellenborough, the eccentric wife of an English nobleman, who, emulating the example of Lady Hester Stanhope and Lady Mary Wf/rtley Montague, not to mention

6he

French

lady, Mme. do la Tour d'Auverjrne, who built herself a temple on the top of Mount Olivet, and lives there now, deserted her country and went to live in tho far east. Mrs. Wallace says of her: One day she fled to Italy, and, after years of reckless living, thence to Greece. The house of lords

easily granted

a divorce to her husband, and the children remained with him. By the terms of the divorce a large income was allotted her, and

set np the standard of wit and beauty, and to it flocked genius and valor.

She married again—a nobleman from Greece, from whom She was separated by the command of King Otho. Determined to rival Chatham's eccentric granddaughter, she sailed away from Greece to see what the gorgeous east is made of. Her ample income gave msaus of gratifying a taste exquisite as it was luxurious—servants, carriages, furniture, plate, linen, a French maid, the companion of her changeful moods, even her little lap dog went with her. There are old dtiasnH of Beyrout who remember the stir among the idle populace when the great English lady landed at the seaport. Her language gave her the broadest range of aoquaintonce, and she had a genius for friendships. Officers of rank crowded the salon, a throne room whore she spoke in one evening French, Italiau, Slav, German, Spanish, Arable, Turkish and Greek as readily as her native tongue.

Page after page is devoted by Mrs. Wallace to describing the surroundings and life of the wonderful woman who grew tired of Damascus and net out for the halls of tho fire worshipers, Bagdad. For guidance and guardianship she traveled with a squad of Anaxehs under a sheik.

Mrs. Wallace does not think it best to tell somas and tales together, and so she calls the sheik Aular. Iu describing him she takes oooarion to say that when you flnd the best Oriental, the exquisite grace of his bearing, the smooth, patient, courteous dignity of his manner surpass the highest breeding5 of Christian courts. Then she quotes the remark of an acquaintance, who says: "The further east you go the finer the manner. First among the sons of men for polish and urbanity is the Arabian, next to him the Turk, then eomcs the Italian, then comes the Spaniard and Frenchman, then the cold, stiff Ry^kkman and lastly the belter skelter American, and I presume California is worse tfcaa Chicago, although I have never bees there.**

Lady EUenborough married the sheik in his tent in the desert, with no witnesses but Arabs, and acoording to the laws of Islam. The bride found to her horror when she returned to Damascus that she had forfaited her nationality, and had become a Turkish subject Bhe never repented of her bargain, but made over her property to her husband, and lived with him for fl'beu years, when she died, regretted by the tribe and by all Arabs. She was devotedly attached to her husband and he to her. The wife of the English consul at Damascus, who knew her, said she and tier husband were never apart that she kept his respect, and was the mother and queen of his tribe. When she died a rare shrine was erected to her memory at Damascus.

The romance of Lady Ellen borough's life Vlra Wallace heard under the palms, sung in a low, slow song by au Anarch, who had no thought when singing that the wife of th American minister to Turkey was listening.

Getting It Down Fine.

Johnnlo was under a cloud. He had been given six tines to learn before lunch time, with a proviso, no lines, no lunch.

Tho lunch bell rang and his mother called Johnnie, who^knew just one-third of his lesion. ".No lunch for roil, my son. to-day!" was the maternal decision. "Please, mamma." pleaded Johnnie, "can't I have two Unas' worth?"—Judqa.

BuimM like, bat Unconventional. Yiarnon West is a bright little Washington boy, with

energy

and piety pretty well com

bined. The other night be surprised Ms parents painfully by anew departure in his prayer. Instead of repeating the usaal formula he popped down on his knees and ear* claimed: "Holkx, Lord! Hello! Make me a good Uttle boy. O.

EL*—Washington

Post.

What's better for a wound than Salvation Oil? Echo answers: "What.*' We answer: "Nothing." "So say we all of us, so say we all!" Only 25 cents.

A poor unfortunate ia Milwaukee Is Mid to have sneoxod himself to de*th. Alas! poor creature, living In the light of the nineteenth century and heard of Dr. Bull's this Is more than

illV) HVIU^ 114 WW tl^W* ,h century and never "s Cough Syrup. Well,

Egyptian darkness!

THE PILOTS WIFE.

The

moon shine* oat, with here and there a starj But furious docd tanks storm both stars sua moon. The mad sea drums upon (he harbor oar

Wm the tide slacken eoonT

0 Sea, took'st my youngest, wilt thou spare f' —And the Sea answered through the black night

"I took thy youngest Shall I spare to-nlghtf

"The thundering toreaken sweep and rfssh Che sands To westward, to! one line of cream white foam: 1 raise to heaven my helpless hands

I watch within the home.

O Sea, that took'st my eldest, wilt thou save?" —And the Sea answered as from out the grave, "I slew thine eldest son for my delight."

•The giant wates plunge o'er the shingly Jwach The tawny maael great lions of the sea, With pttfless roar howl down all human speech.

Is Ood far off from me?

O Sea, thai slewest my sons, mine husband sparef" The Sea's wild laughter shook and rent the air! Let on the beach a drosu'd face deadly white. —George Barlow.

HOUSEKEEPING IN LONDON.

Hardships and Expense

Suppose paterfamilias to be a gentleman of moderate means, he will, of course, cut his household ing aooording to his purse. He knows that rents are very much cheaper in London than they are in Boston, Hew York, Chicago or any other American dty, and that he caa secure a desirable dwelling for £140 a year, and even for £76 or £89. Unless he is well fixed ia income he* wfS let flaSs severely alone. London Is only now educating itself in the matter of fiats, and London flste are about twiee as dear and one-half as convenient as fiats in America. Pater finds a house with a tidy lltde garden la front and a tidy little garden behind, the outer worfd secluded by a brick wall six feet high. Rater interviews the agent, and is requested to sign a lease monumental in proportions and endless in its requirements and perplexing technical terms. Pater says he must have time to examine this formidable document. He has been forewarned that he can do little in a businea way in England without legal advice. He oonsults a solicitor, who charges him 6 shillings and 8 pence for making an appointment, 8 and 8 penoe for examining lease, 0 and 8 pence for consultation, 6 and 8 pence for advice, and so on to the end of the chapter But the solicitor is indispensable. A house oannot he saZely leased wtthoot him.

Chinese Burying Grounds

Few of the Chinese of Now York are wealthy enough to have their bodies sent back to the Celestial Empire after death, but none are too poor to receive a respectable Confucian burial, so to speak, with due rites of taper horning and funeral baked meats. The Chinese own plots in Greenwood and the Evergreens en Long Island, and New York Bay cemetery in New Jersey, and their dead buried ia these three places number altogether several hundreds. The Chinese plot at the Evergreens is a kmeJy wooded knoll on ths outskirts at the cemetery, where many staple Bkoands and headstones are grouped around a largo* dab, standing upon a spacious platform base. This serves as* species at altar where wax tapers are burned and other rites performed when a burial takes pl&oa—the mourners coming in carriages, following the hearse, in the conventional fashion. Sometimes the personal effects of the deceased are burned upon his grove. The custom at depositing dishes at food, with chopsticks, as weB as symbolical trinkets, upon the tomb, also prevails but the surrounding neighborhood is a rough one, and the burying ground is freely desecrated by the local "hoodlums.*—Frank Leslie's Newspaper 14

A Rude Monarch. t,

King Ernest of Hanover, a son of George HI, aad at ono time next in succession to the British crown, was a peculiar and eccentric sovereign. Of him it is said that he was the most unpopular man in England, and he carried this feeling with him when he went to his petty kingdom. His manner at treating those with wham he came in contact daily waa anything but pleasing. He quarreled with his servants, insulted guests at Us qwn table and made himself cttsliked in various ways. As a sample at his rudeness ft is related that one day there sat at tabk with a company of guests one who, though prominent, was somewhat straitened in circumstances. Ring Ernest called a servant and bade him ake a bottle at champagne to the gentleman in question, adding in a load voice: "He does not get wine every day at home."—San Francisco Chronicle,

Oriental Women Poets.

There have been poets among the women at the east, notwithstanding the wdafai In wUch they are kept. For instance, there was Hubbi, who wrote a romantic peem In 900 verses, the j***—n at Mahmnd, among the minor poets, but the only great poetess is Mihri, the Ottoman Sappho. She waa horn In Anatnlla, in Asia Minor, and, as eastern men are sby of mmtariy gifted women,

TEKRE TTAT7TE SATURDAY EVENING MAHl .Tfty.-V.^

Maintaining

Domestic establishment.

"When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary" for an American, in obedience to the demands of his business or professional calling, to transfer his lares and penates from the United States to London, it will always be well for the friends of that gentleman to remember him as one who is about to enter upon a period (longer or shorter, as tact and finances permit) of domestic tribulation, provided, of course, that he is unaccustomed to the English wayB of "doing things." If he and the members of his family are fortunate enough to be philosophical, and if they are so constituted as to be able to adapt themselves readily to strange conditions, so much the better their period of trial will end the sooner, and they can anticipate with not a little genuine satisfaction that the act of settling into the really pleasant features of English life, which, when rightly taken, go far to compensate one for the system he has left behind. To become a householder in London is far from being one of the simplest matters in the world. There are houses to be had, hundreds of them, perhaps thousands of them, but even this profusion renders the act of choice somewhat embarrassing. First, of course, one looks for a desirable location, or "position," as they Bay hare. But in this respect one's task is made comparatively easy, for the reason that, as far ss place of residence is concerned, London is one of the most democratic cities in the world, and nobody cares a button where anybody else lives, provided he lives respectably in the accepted English sense.

An Inhnrnan Fraud.

"Come, get right out of here,11 cried itbe proprietor of a Munroe street resort to a female beggar who entered the place carrying a small and scantily clad baby. She mutely obeyed the command, and, as the proprietor noticed the wondering looks of his cuttomera, he said: "There is a woman who should be suppressed by the police. For years and years idle has tramped around after dark with a poor little baby in her arms. She never goes anywhere excepting in saloons. The baby is her bait, and the little thing is made to suffer from cold and exposure to give the woman money. She makes a good deal, too, but I guess she drinks it up. You see how bloated she looks. I remember one night, not many years ago, the woman was coming out of a saloon in a theatre alley. It was an awfully cold night and the baby on her arm was thinly dad. Margaret Mather, the actress, came out of the stage door on her way to her hotel and she saw the woman and child. She hastily removed a small shawl which was tied over her head, wrapped it around the child, and stepped into her waiting carriage followed by the hypocritical 'God bless you, mum,' of the woman. As the carriage disappeared around the corner this woman whipped the shawl off of the young one, hastily thrust it into the basket on her arm, and entered another saloon to appeal for aid for a baby dying of exposure and starvation. This same woman just left here. Where she gets her young babies I cant imagine, but the police or the Humane society people should protect that youngster."—Chicago Herald.

The Danger of Tights.

It may not be generally known that the wearing of tights is a decidedly unhealthy practice. There has never been any scientific principle applied to wearing them properly. They are simply drawn on as tightly as two or four strong arms can get them, and fastened by a leather belt around the waist. This belt has to be drawn at such a tension that what doctors call unhealthy lacing is nothing in comparison with the torture to which women subject themselves in this manner. Articles have been written in reference to the wearing of tights in the circus ring, and the bad results that usually follow for the women thus employed. But this is nothing compared fo the system in vogue in comic opera and burlesque theatres. The circus rider has a ten or fifteen minute act to perform, and she is done for the night. The chorus girl dresses at 7:80 and knows no relief until after 11. Louise Montague, the handsome Medora in "Conrad the Corsair," said not long ago that she did not believe any woman who was not compelled to wear tightB would do so. It Involved a large expenditure of physical force, and she would be quite willing at any time to accept $25 a week less salary if she were not compelled to wear them. As an expert on the question, she added that there was no doubt whatever that women's health was injured by tfib wearing of tights. Fortunately for herself, she bad not been compelled to do so for any length of time, but so far as her observation went, women became old before their time by means of these modern requisites of the stage.— American Analyst.

Appreciating Honesty.

Adventure befell an honest man named Elliston, who drove a Garfield avenue car two or three years ago. Two countrymen, having sold their farms for a cash sum of 125,000, wrapped the bank notes in unsuspicibus brown paper and, becoming drunk, dropped the parcel in a north side car. Elliston was the conductor, and at the end of the run, while observed by no one, not even the driver, he discovered the lost thousands. Its appropriation oould never have been proved upon him. He delivered it, however, at the company's office, and when the terrified farmers were given their property they thankfully presented him with a cigar. "No, keep your dgar," said Elliston, "but give me 10 eents to buy a rope to hang myself."

Lieut. Sehuttler, the gallant and handsome commandant of the Larrabee street police station, was an auditor to the narration of the foregoing incidents and had his contribution to make. "When I was a boy about 14 years old I found,'" said he, **a bank book In the streets. The account called for $8,000 and there was $250 in money folded in the book. I losta half day's work finding the owner on the west side he presented me with 25 cents. Some years later, when was driving a north side ear, found on the seat one day a lady's pockeftook'eontslnlng $10, eome photographs and other trinkets. The book belonged to a Lake View school teacher, and when die called for ttske left $5 of tho money for me. She was what the other fellows were not~a lady."—Chicago News.

To Clean Farnltare.*

When cleaning the room thoroughly it is a good plan to remove tho lighter articles of upholstered furniture Into the air, and the heavier ones into another room in which the windows are opened. Hair cloth is best cleaned by beating with a switch or rattan, afterward wiping with a soft cloth. If it is old and its color it con be made to look almost as good as new by wiping it over with a doth wet in ink. Flush furniture gbould be brushed with a bristle brush. A medium paint brush is just the thing. Never switch plush, as it will leave a mark any amount of brushing will sot entirely obliterate. A small paint brmhfor (be crevices of the woodwork is a necessity, to keep it hi good condition by removing the dost Wipe over the woodwork with a soft, damp cloth, and potisb with dry cloth. A quantity of warmed linseed oil rubbed well into the wood, and this afterward rubbed briskly with a soft, dry cloth, will give the wood a nice, soft polish.—New York Telegram. 1/

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Gorgeous Cusdussn.

The livery of the ooaahmaa at Count cTArco Valley, the ^German mtmstw at Washington, is creating a sensation In that dty. Gold aad lace

seem

to be the principal

part of it. A double row of silk tattoos runs down the front, while rows gilt cerd are swung aeress the breast and fastened upon the right side, from which depends a sword. The tall blue hat is decorated with a plume and cockade of ^German coJoxsl No one seems to know what the sword is for, unless It to "cut behind" at the small boys, wboss republican irreverence causes them to "steal a ride" on the gorg*oo»eqpipag&--8aa ffcan-

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Barrett's Chance Acquaintance.

I had a chat with Mr. Lawrence Barrett recently about the interesting incidents in his travels about the oountry. One of the most memorable he told me happened some years ago on board a train when he was on his way to Richmond, Va.

While he was yet some hours distant from Richmond two gentlemen entered the car and occupdcd the seat immediately behind Mm

One of them was of striking appearance, who was addressed by several persons in the car as "General." "For more an hour,'' said Mr. Barrett, "I listened to that man's conversation, addressed to his friend Ho talked rapidly and poured out Information on all sorts of topics in a manner that was completely •miring Presently his companion left and he lapsed 4n to silence. "As we sped along I cudgeled my brain for some means to draw him into conversation. We were rushing across one of those barren stretches occasionally seen in tho south, and I turned and asked him if there was much of such desolate land In that section. He answered my question, and gradually the conversation grew livelier. I never passed such a day in my life. The information of the man was simply stupendous, and it was poured out like some mighty torrent, while I listened, fascinated and arnared. "When we neared Richmond he told me that he would go that night to the theatre to see Mr. Barrett in 'Richelieu.' He also added that he had never seen the actor. "After he had gone I found out who my eloquent companion had been. He was Gen. Robert Toombs."

That night, as Mr. Barrett in the character of Richelieu was called before the curtain, Gen. Toombs, who was seated in the stage box with a party of friends, loaned forward eagerly, ^Hairing hia finger at the actor, exclaiming, "And so it was you 1"—New York Herald

Moravian Marriages.

Mr. Blood, of Bethlehem, Pa., told of a tragedy In real life wbioh occurred recently in a Moravian settlement near the town named One of the many curious customs of that strange sect is to marry off the young people by lot. Of course it is not to be expected that a young couple shuffled together in this mechanical way will always feel the Romeo-Juliet degree of passion. In order to be generous, therefore, tho Moravian intellectual ancestors made it a rule that both the young woman and the young man should have the right to refuse, once, the helpmeet drawn in the lottery of love. In the present case a young girl was first allotted to a middle aged suitor who had been waiting for years to see his name drawn from the wheel.

She could not reconcile herself to his physical deficiencies

And

exercised her right to

withdraw. The rejected suitor sought revenge by refusing another young woman who had been assigned to him, and in' the meantime the heroine of this story had herself been refused The two names were thereupon thrown back Into the wheel, and after several months some strange freak of fate brought the two names out together again. Neither could refuse towed this time, and the unfortunate girl, rather than be tied for fife with unweloome bonds, jumped into the Bethlehem pond and drowned herself. The mourning bridegroom, says Mr. Blood, la now wondering disconsolately about the village waiting tar another bride.—New York Tribune.

Consumption Curable.

Since the fact that consumption is both preventable and in its earliest stage curable, it has lost much of its terror. If the first symptoms are at once recognized, and the proper remedy applied, very few, if any one, need die of consumption, which is really lung-scrofula. Like many other diseases this, in turn, forms a diseased liver. .Hence, we have the hacking oough, the pains in chest, the inflamed lungs, and all the symptoms of hastening consumption, all the result of depravea blood and a diseased liver. The use of Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovers will arrest all such symptoms, restore the liver to healthy action, and send streams of pure blood into every organ. Of druggists.

The Best Exercise for Children.

Instinctive gymnastics is, from the hygienic point of view, the beet adapted to the regular development of the child It is not liable to any of the objections we have brought against gymnastics with apparatus. It cannot deform the body, for it Is made up of spontaneous movements, and conformed to the natural office at each fimb. It does not localize the work In a particular region of the body, for an the limbs are Instinctively Invited to take their quota of exercise aad it does not seduce the child into efforts touching upon the limits of his strength. Instinct slso invites him to the kind of work which is best adapted to his particular aptitude for resisting fatigue. He has a natural disposition to perform light but frequently recur ring acts, quick motions, which put him out of breath, while extrdsm with apparatus rather exact slow and Intense efforts that bong on local fatigoa Now, all observers have noticed the wonderful facility with which a child recovers his breath, and his impatience of local fatigue. Finally, natural exercise, being the satisfaction of a want, is by that very fact a pleasure and joy shines in the face of the child who is playing fresly. —M. Fenian Lagrange in Popular Science Monthly.

Deafness Can't be Cared

by local application, as they can not reach the diseased portion of the ear. There is only one way to cure Deafness, and that is by constitutional remedies. Deafness is caused by an inflamed condition of the mucus lining of the Eustachian Tube. When this tube get* inflamed you have a rambling sound or imperfect hearing, and when It is entirely closed Deafness is the result, and unlesa the inflammation can be taken out and this tube restored to its normal condition, hearing will be destroyed forever nine cases out of ten are caused by catarrh, which is nothing bnt an inflamed condition of the mucus surfaces.

We will give One Handred Dollars for any case of Deafness (caused by Catarrh) that we cannot cure by taking Hall's Catarrh Cure.

F. J. CHENEY A CO., Toledo, O. £gr*Sold by Druggists, 76c. 34-4t.

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Every Night I Scratched

Un'll the Skin was Raw. Body Covers* with Scales like Spots of Mortar, Cure* by the Cutlcura Remedies.

I am going to tell you of tbe extraordinary change your Cutlcura Remedies perform eft on me. About the first of April last I noticed some red pimples like coming out all over my body, but thought nothing of it until some time later on, when It began to look like 8pots of mortar spotted on, and which came off in layers, accompanied with itching I would scratch every night until 1 was raw, then the next night the scales, being formed meanwhile, were scratched off again. In vain did I consult all the doctors in the country, but without aid. After giving up all hopes of recovery, I happened to see an advertisement in the newspaper about your Cuticura Remedies, and purchased tnem from my druggist, and obtained almost immediate relief. I began to notice that tha scaly eruptions gradually dropped off and disappeared one by one, and have been fullycured. I had the disease thirteen months before I began taking the Cuticura Remedies and in four or five weeks was entirely cured. My disease was eosema and psoriasis. I recommended the Cutlcura Remedies to all in my vicinity, and I know of a great many who have taken them, and thank me for the knowledge of them, especially mothers who have babies with scaly eruptions on their heads and bodies. I cannot express in words the thanks to you for what the Cuticura Remedies have been to me. My body was covered with scales, and I was an awful spectacle to behold. Now my skin is as nice and clear as a baby's.

GEO.

Sept. 21,1887,

CETOY, MerrillJWls.

Feb. 7,1888.—Not

trace whatsoever of

skin, scalp and blood,

tha

disease from which I suffered has shown

self since my cure. GEO. COTEY.

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Catarrh to Consumption.

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