Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 22, Number 22, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 21 November 1891 — Page 2

A BLIND HYMN .VlilTEB.

FANNY CR0S3Y, WHO COMPOSED "SAFE IN THE ARMS OF JESUS."

A IVulMitn irivc«t ut Sijht in Her Vosillt, H111 1 Jinn Than Any Other On«r r«T*«ii to .Make Religion Attract!?* ami Innplriiis— M«ry TJ«»r Life.

The xvoman who l»n« written more Snnday school hymns thr.i! any other ten living v. ritcrs has bur home* in this city. Her mai'i ii name was Frances Jane Crosby, and *h« is always familiarly called Fanny Crosby, he name attached to some of her hymn-. Few of the hotisands xvho wklysine t-i/o words she has written know that, she i- hi rid and has leeu so ever hi not she was ix week* oli, through makreitmenv of tin- eye* for som« slight disease. She is now sdxty-one years of age.

Visitors to the music publishiti house that prints iic majority of her hy m.'in mmy see on certain day* in themtk a shrunken figure in a black dress and colored s|« ctacles either entering, voided by «or,i» one who has brought her from her up town home, or feeling her way around among the desks and avenues of books, helped now and then by the employees of the place, who all like the little woman. A smile generally lights up her face, and she speaks in tin- voice of one who is seldom sad. A certain rocking chair in a buck room is devoted to her use, and she comes down to occupy it several time* a week. Probably no other house in existence hsis bo regular a composer of one kind of writing hymns. She furnisher bj' contract a fixed numler eacii week, some of which are at once used, some not. She is considered to have a marvelous faculty for knowing what, wiil "sing," and doe# considerable revising of the hymns of others to m/tke them suitable for music.

Mi** Crosby's method of work is unique, even for a blind person. While composing, she always holds closely over her eyes a small ojiened copy of some book, "Golden ilymtJH" Iteing her choice if that is available. When the pieee is finished to her satisfaction she dictate* it to some one who writes it out as "copy." Generally the music is composed after the statizas are written, though sometimes she is required to make verses for tunes, new or well known. Another of her specialties is the composition all the hymns and recitations required for annuals ustd by Sunday schools on Christmas, Easter, Children'* Day and like occasions, and sometimes she performs this service for the celebration any special date in a simile church.

A (ill!I, AT SCHOOL.

When fifteen years old Fanny Crosby was removed from her home to the Institiition for the HIiud, this city. She received so good an education in this school that she afterward taught, there Knglish grammar, rhetoric, and Greek, Koinan and American history for eleven years Ijefore her marriage. Her gift for rhyming showed itself arly, and her first piece was composed at he age of eight. She says it has been the motto of her life and the secret of her cheerfulness:

Oh. whit a happy soul 1 am, Although I caiiuol »ec! I atn resolved that in this world

Contented

will

be.

How mrny hlc\»*init* I enjoy Thai other people don't To weep ir *iu'h liecitiiso I'm blind.

I cannot mr I won't.

While a teacher she wrote words to many songs for George F. Hoot, the well known eompnser. Some of them liecame very popular ami are favorites still, amcng them "lla-,i'| Dell," "Rosalie, "Tho Prairie Flower." "Proud World, (inoilhy,'' "I'm Gtilni Hume," "Honeysuckle Glen" rod •'There's Music in tho Air." The wotds for some successful cantatas, notably "T he Flower Queen" and "The Pilgrim Fathers," were included In her work.

Miss Crosby was selected to read a poem in he senate chamlicr. She was the first woman to speak there in a public capacity.

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Her living, lasting work was begun in IStVi, nix years after her marriage with Alexander Van ASlsiyne, also from the Institution for lie Wind. In that year, at the request of William 11. Bradbury, the famous composer of sacred music, she 1Kgati to wtitc Sunday school hymns, and found her nsd life work. The first hymn she ever composed

W'o ore i.'nim ue are vinim: Ton home hcyoml the skies.

Came Into existence at the Ponton hotel, Franklin street. New York, on Feb. ft, 1MVI, and ever since its author has earned her living l»\ wrinng hymns. In the twenty seven years since then she has composed nearly 3.000 hymns for Mr. Bradbury and the lirm\*h: ii were his successors. Beside

these,

she

h.ts

done the same kind of

work for many weli known men, Philip Phillips anions the rest The hvmn which she is most widely known, "Safe in the Arms of Jesus," was eom|Kv»pd In I *»'-. It is her own favorite. In the same year she produced the well known one be,: umnw: ]'aw me s, jrcntle Saviour.

Hear my I um!ie cry.

Kach #urecce og year Miss Crosby has written hymn that have sung their way into many hearts, and have IHHMI translated into many ague* Notable? anion* them are "Kescn he Perishing," written in IS»W. also ".Ie«ns. Keep Me Near the Cross" and "Keep Thou My ay, J,ord," a piece comjwiMcd suit the music. It was used for several years as the prayer song at the Mayflower mission commuted with Plymouth church. Hr»*kl)n. In ISJTI "The Bright Forever" was writtoo. lu 1873 "Close to Thee in ist-l O Come to the Saviour," "Like the Sonntl of Many Waters." and "Saviour. More Than Life to Me in tsta "L Am Thine, O Lord." "So Near to the Kingdom." and "O My Saviour, Hear Me."

PRKI'KKS TC PK HUSO.

There ,w many interest in incident* connected with some of Miss Crosby-# hymns, and those which com* to her knowlare carefully twwutwl. She Jells Vhl» story of St.v.v she came to write "All th* Wsv My I/MWI* Mfi" "I was Aitting in my room on a hot day lu July thinking Some one CJunelti and gave me doiiars 1 osctn't expert St. The gift awaket5'-i a train o? {hoH.fiht., «*,! I r*?fle«tthat. Hte hv step. CJo«i was leading

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COVERS.

Oh, *"ha toes the night wind say to th« romt Alas, there la never an ear that knows— And what doc# the nightingale*, there in the hrsice. Sing to his 5o-.*, when he sings for her sake? Aiaa, and a la?, v.re can never discover— Ob, sweet wi--! Icrcr. and sweet bird lover. Your secret i» safe: so safe shall ours be When mmu one I love whispers love words to me. —Philip Boorke Mars ton in New York Troth.

THE OLO WOMANISH YOUNGSTER.

The Kind of a Girl That .Some Mothers* I'ridt and Training MakesThere are mother's girls—sweet little dears brought up at mother's knee, and taking in, with the extraordinary quickness o£ a sh irp wilted child, everything they hear mentioned. Such children become little rep'-:cas of their elders, copy their conversation, their gestures, their tones, ideas, faults and foolish idiosyn-crnsk-s. The parents think it so cute, so cunning, and, proud of dear Mary Jane's old womanish ways and complacent affectations, drag her about with them wherever they go, and force her upon their friends and their visitors till Mary Jane becomes infiated to bursting point with the consciousness of her own charms, and the family acquaintances feel that they would like to incarcerate the "dear, clever little woman" in some far distant spot, where the bahk-s cease from troubling and the listener is at rest.

Mary Jane's mamma is always foisting her brilliant daughter upon afternoon visitors, who come at untoward times when mamma is up stairs in the comfortable negligo of

loose white sack and a short

white skirt. When she receives the cards she becomes extremely flurried, after the manner of women, execrates her guests with the true feminine hospitality, and finally tells Mary Jane, who is standing nliout and silently enjoying the breez«, to smooth her hair, pull up her stockings, and go down and entertain the ladies until "mamma comes."

Nothing is dearer to the heart of Mary Jane. Plastering down her bangs with a wet brush and donning a clean pinafore, she trips down stairs and enters the parlor, imparting to her back draperies a gently pendulous swing, as she has seen her Aunt Fanny do when dressed up to meet her young man. Mary Jane has a perfectly self possessed and complacent manner, copied from mamma's and Aunt Fanny's. She greets the guests with gracious patronage, then, sitting on the edge of her chair, smooths her pinafore, crosses her ankles and proceeds to direct the conversation Into interesting channels.

First, she calls their attention to the new draperies over the mantel. They were papa's taste. "Ho went off oue day and bought them secondhand cheap, you know. And mamma

WHS

furious. She

says any one can see they've been bought secondhand. Do you think you would have guessed it if I hadn't told you? No perhaps not."

Then her eves lighted on a silk sofa pillow, she designates it with a languid wave of the hand and continues: "That is new too. Mamma's friend, Miss O'Neil, made it. Miss O'Neil, you know, was at. school with mamma, but afterward she didn't get married, you see, as mamma says her offers were so poor, and so now she's an old maid and teaches music. She's worn very badly, mamma says, and is getting a little short in her temper. She gives me lessons—it's really out of charity, for she is not at all a good teacher. She also comes to dinner once a week, and sometimes twice. We're beginning to think that she comes a little too often, because we have to have three courses and dessert when she comes, and It does make the bills run up so!"

After this she falls back on tho photographs on the table, and points them out witli appropriate descript ions: •That man there with the big mustache is Aunt Fanny's beau. He's leen coming here for three years, and papa calls lam •the forlorn hope.' I don't know why he does that. Aunt Fanny sits in the parlor when he comes, and we all sit hero in the library and listen to Aunt Fanny laugh. Mamma savs it's a pity he's not so entertaining when he talks to us. He never makes us laugh at all. "The next man, in the enamel frame, is Mr. Smith. He's a friend of papa's. List winter he lent papa some money, and it isn't, paid yet. As soon as it's paid mamma's going get- her a set of cut glass, but pajrn says she can't, have one piece until then. Mamma gets awful mad when he tells her so, but papa says honasty is the best policy, and when papa says a thing, it's just like the Medesaml the Prussians."

Here mamma, nicely dressed up, but somewhat out of breat h, enters rustling. "I am afraid this little chatterbox has been boring you," she says, with beaming maternal pride. The guests politely disclaim such possibility. In truth, they have l»een enormously entertained.—Sail Francisco Argonaut,

Th« Sluftrftiih Century Woman. There is au old belief of t-ho masculine Anglo-Saxon mind that a woman, to lie lovable, should have no marked individuality. But with this world's rapid advance through the Victorian age, woman has become more than ever perplexing to the male atom who poises himself for a moment to make a study of her. She no longer nets!, man's apparel to practice a profession or to journey forth on foot under the green leaves of Arden. She has grown self reliant and cosmopolitan—equally at home in the White House or on the banks of the Neva. She never plucks daisies and buttercup# nowadays to teat her lover's affection by pulling apart their petals. You find her, instead, arranging orchids in giaa* ami making cynical reflections tipou the worthlessness of the entire race. Individual love or hate in the opposite sex is apparently all one to her.—Scribner's.

NUCK SLLLI AI WAR* KL*FMI»T

Black silk i# among the most popular fabric for dinner gown* that *r* not pi*tefftious but rather inclined to quiet etc gance* says an English authority. The somber effect of black, i* quite obviated by the dtvornUous of t?*e the gloves* chiffon, Sowers and jewK But there are often when a hew?ifnl wonwn her by a dead Muck toilet, trfeich i* «iiy ttVwi by her bind bouquet of re»i ami pink row**. a gnw k-u a S to a fair

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THE BRIDAL DRESS.

Oh. the rustic to it and the glisten to itl Pray thee, listen to itIt is white and bright, with a shimmer of light, Like the c.ion on trv» snow on a winter's night. Tis from Worth, they say. Who is he. 1 pray.' There are pearls sewn over It, And the lai-as which cover itWas there ever snch lace?—like the dainty white trace Of the frr»ston the pane: of such wonderful grace Was it ever woven by human hand. Or was it the gift from a fairy's wand? Then the orange blossoms, so white and so sweet. Fit to garland my lady from head to feet. Oh, the whiteness of it. Oh. the brightness of it. Yet nine too white Or none too bright, My bride is the daintiest maid that I know. The dearest and fairest and sweetest, 1 trow. Ever told of song or story. Ever sung of in tales of glory. Come weal or come woe. Nothing fears me, my bride. The world's before me And I've yon by my side. —Isabel Gorden in Cosmopolitan.

WASHING DISHES.

With a Little Thought and Cai^s the Work May He Made Very Pleasant. "Pooh! Everybody knows how to wash dishes!" you exclaim. If I believed that I would not write this article. I have many a time seen dishes treated in a way not at all nice, to say the least. Some people will pile a lot of greasy dishes into a pan with the cups and saucers and teaspoons, pour on about a quart of water and sozzle them out after a fashion that does not make them shine with cleanliness. Some will use the dishcloth to wipe them, or a eotton nig. Bosh on such a method, I say.

There are many people who never make provision before they sit down vhe table to hate a kettle of hot water midy when the meal is over many who never put water into the spider in which some article of food has been cooked, nor into the pan in which meat has been baked, nor a dish in which dough, batter, etc., has been mixed, so that what adheres may soak and l»e easily removed, but they will let them stand and dry and then, when it comes to the washing, plunge them right into the dishpan already thick and greasy, and rub and scrub and scrape with a knife to get off that which might have been so easily removed by soaking before coming to the final wishing. Let me tell you my method, and if any one lias a better way, I will gladly learn it if they will teach me.

Mixing dishes and baking dishes are put to soak directly after using, if there is any substance adhering that would otherwise be difficult of removing. In this water I wash off all I can before bringing the dishes to the pan. I see that the teakettle is refilled or a kettle of water is on the stove before I sit down to the table. When the dinner is over I scrape the plates which require it, and if particularly greasy I take a little hot soapsuds in some dish and wash them before putting them into the dishpan. for I do detest thick, greasy dishwater.

First I wash the cups and saucers, spoons and knives, then such dishes as are the least soiled by the food, the cooking dishes coming last. I have the water very hot and use a handle mop for tho best dishes for the eooking dishes I have a cloth made from a worn towel. I have two grades of these and a sink cloth besides. I ha'vflpP^MpitiR towels of the checked crffl^fe|su^K but that is not really essentia 1 aAjBter of feaste merely. By the side^l^npmshpan I have another into which I pliwRthe dishes as I wash them, arranging them loosely, and over them pour hot water to rinse them of the sudsy water. Then they wipe so much more easily when hot.

This water is used to wash the towels, the mop, best and second best dishcloths, adding soap, of course, and taking them in order one after the other, instead of dumping them all iu together. The sinkcloth then comes into requisition, and after the sink is washed and wiped dry, the pan and cloth are washed in clean water. I never have any ill smelling towels nor dishcloths they are so disposed as to dry thoroughly. Sometimes, of course, it is necessary to use the rinse water for washing other dishes, and in a large family it would be always necessary to have two or more courses of water, but where there are only two or three persons one only is essential where the

plates,

.yet

"f |»UC"» XtfT

h'ersrf citric*,

etc., are previously par

tially cleansed. I am aware that this reads like much work, but it is not really, and if it were, who would not be at extra pains to have the dishes clean and bright and the cleths perfectly sweet? M. D. Wellcome in* HoRsekeeper.

for Kitchen Work.

Every woman desires to keep her bands dainty. But when she is forced to do her own kitchen work, it is impossible to keep her lintnds in the condition they should be. Nothing is more chafing to a defeats ski a than the alkali soaps which it is necessary to use in washing greasy dishes or cleaning greasy sinks. A pair of long rubber gloves, such as chemists sometimes use in laboratory wwk. will protect the bands in the hottest dishwater. These gloves come in hlAck, white and lead oolor, in sices considerably larger than kid gloves. The smallest sisse sold, we believe, is No. 7. This is small enough for a lady who wears or 6 in kid gloves.

After one becomes used to them it is easy enough to do sweeping, dishwashing and sundry other tasks in these gloves, which cost from $1.35 and $1.50 a pair, and properly hung up and dried when used will last a long time. It is a groat mistake to buy such a glove too shart in the wrb&. It should reach high np on the forearm Water will well in over the top of a short glove so that it is no protection to the band.—New York Tribune.

Mia* Bnuh Wltld* the Brash Successfully. Virginia Brash Is one of the most successful designers of interior decorations. Confronted with tbe problem of self maintenance tht-oagb her father's death, she Qtilind the talent she had for color and embroidery. The famous panek in the Vandorbili houses the rostrum in the Motl memorial, the mu*ie room in t»e home of •Judge Andrews, everything in the Millets' new home on Fifty-sixth street, anrd severs! bon«^* ib Pttn»d*!pMa and Denver are «le*ss«we*i by Mis* Brash and her em* nl-oy-w*.—Rs-!mn ce.

The only *ea-v cntrse for aotbem to Hjke,« I ?. *r«* ibrir babies when it fe po*p!r ••'•'.i ta vi. Some are eke65 4!^'^ v« b.jt the nnmber, -t -. t* very

When ir bs lbs ioterra! af.»*f sumo-kitm Iwfofw ite slwsaJd lit# isPKweos* "f the ladies. Mr. Oi*4* MOM v&ptmi, '"A oo-ist fottr boo**.*

HA 1TE SATORDAT EVENING MAIL

Fashions in Woman's

DION

SO Years Ago,

Ah! who that remembers woman's dress of thirty years ago would be willing to return to it? Skirts full gathered or plaited over great, clumsy, swinging wire cages, and very long, trailing not only over drawing room carpets, but over the inexpressibly filthy streets thin soled shoes, mostly of cloth or thin kid big bonnets with hideous little she Is called capes hanging over the backs of the wearers' necks, insecurely held in a position where they could neither protect nor ornament the head by broad ribbons tied in immense bows beneath the chin long and wide circular cloaks, fastened at the neck by two or three buttons, giving no protection to the arms, floating out behind as one walked, and holding the wind like the mainsail of a ship, while the distressed wearer vainly struggled to prevent her bonnet from falling off the back of her head with one hand, and to lift her voluminous skirts from the muddy pavement with the other.

Ugh! How ugly all these fashions were! But youth was just as beautiful then as now, and many are the blooming faces I can recall as they looked sweetly forth from their disfigurements. Yes, my dear, bright girls of from sixteen to twenty, your mothers and aunts were once just as beautiful as you are now. You don't believe me. 1 see, but it is true. And they were quite as happy aud content with themselves, and just as modest and "proper," too, though they saw no harm in accepting help from strangers, and in going to balls and theaters without other attendance than that of "Brother Tom" or even "Cousin Fred." Circumstances alter cases. The simple way of thirty years ago, when New York was more like a big overgrown village than a city, cannot be compared with Cie customs that have become necessary in one of the largest and certainly the most cosmopolitan of cities in the world.—Helen Evartson Smith in New York Independent.

Falling of the hair is the result of inaction of the glauds or roots of the hair, or a morbid state of the scalp, which may be cured by Hall's llair Kenewcr.

The Yentllallisa of Cellars. When the housekeeper has bought, built or hired her house, after due consideration of the family needs and tastes, and after careful examination of the locality and construction of the chosen home, her earli est attention should be directed to the eel lar, as! that part of the home, which is most often neglected and where ordet and convenience combined, adds no small amount to the comfort and healthfulness of all parts of the house.

The arrangement of the cellar takes time and attention rather than any great out lay of money. The windows should first be seen to. A stuffy. Hiiventilated cellar, full of dead air, is an abomination. The windows should be so hung that they can be removed from the inside, and during all but the extreme winter months should be taken out, and even then in mild days they should be opened in the middle ol the day. The outside of the windows should be protected by galvanized wire window netting, costing 2}i cents tho square foot. A heavier, coarser meshed quality can be used instead, if that strength is desired. This quality costs six cents the. square foot.

The hatchways of city houses are trouble some in cold weather. Both the rear and front hatchways admit, a great deal of wind during the winter, in spite of the wooden covers that are fitted to them, and make the kitch^igg^.dining room floors drafty and coldjj This c«n be remedied by covering the^yn over each hatchway with furil covl sunt opened should heavy coa Ormsbee in

dlf of old carpeting ot and then fitting the $*Rie hatchway on the use must be frequently fo'ecellarceiling and walls ghly whitewashed, two ng enough.—Agnes B. r« Bazar.

How to save money Is a problem that interests ev^rybody. One way to do it is to invigohtte the system with Ayer's Sarsaparllla. Beluga highly concontiatblood purifieV, is is the most powerful and economical. It is sold for a dollar a bottle, bt^Worth five.

For Carrylnc lJaby.

•e i« always something being inyentfor the bene!®- of one class or another, the latfet production of inventive genius, flic pafeftt 'pihy carrier," wUl specially appeal tO-tno great host of mothers. This most ingenious and useful little article is In reality a miniature hammock, which can be fastened round the neck at various heights by strong hooks the baby being placed inside, the hands of the nurse are left perfectly free, the arms are saved from any strain or subsequent aching and perfect comfort aud safety are insured for the child. The "baby carrier" weighs under three ounces, will wash, and when not in use am IK? folded tip'Jnto a very small compass and carried in tlte pocket. Every woman knows hovv when baby wants to be nursed everything^lse must be put aside and everjr movement studied, therefore the value of an article Ibe use of which admits of a x»ok or work being held and saves the arms from many an hour's aching can be thoroughly appreciated.—Lady'sPictorial.

(P^fe Lady Oodlva nilist have had exceptionally long hair since it completely fon^»l«d her lovely person. Since fVref's Hair Vigor came into use such Examples are not so rare as formerly. It not only promotes the growth of the hair, bat gives it a rleb| silken texture.

How Abywilalan^Tomen Tattoo. Painting is temporary and needs frequent renewal. In many farts of the world we find color designs, elaborate, carious, sometimes beautiful, made permanent by tattooing. The pattern and the method vary greatly with locality. In some regions men only tattoo, in others only women, in others both sexes. Here it is confined to tb« nobles, there to the servile. In Abyssinia women chiefly tattoo. The whole body is cover*! even the gums are picked bine. An old woman operator's tools were a pot of blacking (cbarred herbs), a large iron pin, bits of hollow cane and pieces of straw—these last for pencils. She marks oat the design, pricks dots with the pin loaded with the dye, awl goes over it repeatedly. To allay the subsequent irrit tfon it is plastered over with a green poultice the scab must not be picsed off.— Popular Science Monthly.

W desire to *ay to oor oltiawn*, that for ve*r* w* have t*vn filing I»r King's New Ii*rf*ov*»ry for f»r. King'* New tA1* PilK Bo^kienV Aroica and Klectri* «nd never ii»«dk»d r»rnwJi« thai sfii ma well, *»r that h**« *«w?b Mttlvr-rial *aa»fartiot. W« do not b**Jt»* to them fer^ry Urn*?., *:!«.?{* wsady mUwd lb* pawUm# prk*, munltadotsoi follnw their ttm. Th*»Hs *rcm«d»«# bare won their j?r*wi popularity portly on tbui? merits. For sale fey any »rnggf»t. I

AN ACTUAL MIRACLE.

A Story which Seems too Wonderful for Belief, but which is Absolutely True. [Toledo Blade.}

We are about to publish the most remarkable experience which has ever been known in the history of the world It occurred in Sidney, Ohio, and is acase which not only includes the most clear and definite of statements from the person herself, but which has all the absorbing realism of a romance, and all the force of unquestionable truth, hollowing i.s the statement, which cau be read with the greatest of interest: "1 am a young lady, aud like most young ladies, shrink irom appearing in public or seeing my name in print, but I have passed through an experience so remarkable that 1 feel compelled to make it public. I know there are many young ladies, elderly ladies, aud uieu ioo, for that matter, who are in the very greitest danger, and yet who do not know it. To all such my experience will prove invaluable. "A little over two years ago I took a severe cold, and, as so'many others do, earelessl3' neglected it. It was very, very annoying, and I kept thinking every day it would pass away, but, instead of doing so, it grew worse. I coughed considerably, but. it was not the cough aloun that bothered me. I was frequently feverish, my lips were parched, my breath hot. My appetite was poor, and I lost iu flesh daily. Sometimes my cheeks would be very rod, and again I would bo as pale as death. 1 tried to sleep regularly, but could uot, and when I did sleep I was troubled with horrible dreams. In this way several mouths passed by, until finally I became so weak that I'was compelled to take to my bed. "I cannot, and do not believe the great est writer in the world could describe what I suffered. For eighteen months'I was us able to help myself in the least, and my mother, sister and brother were completely worn out taking care of me. I had no less than seven dltlereut physicians, who came to see me separately, and were also often in consultation together. One and all pronounced me incurable, and said I must die. Beyond the possibility of a doubt I had consumption in its last stages. Of course, in addition to all tho medicines of the doctors, I took cough syrups and cod liver Is, which 1 hoped would cure me, or at least bring me relief. But, alas, none ol them eased my suffering. "Oneday, ah! how well I remember it, my mother and sister came into my room with tears rolling down their checks. Betweeu their sobs they told me that I had but a short time to live, and that the best physicians had said so, and that they had done all in their power. I knew this, and was willing to die. but tho thought came to mo that I would like to see our town onco more, aud perhaps looH into the faces of some of my friends. My mother and sister looked amazed, and tho physician even more so. 'It was simply suicide,' tlioy said, 'and you certainly will never return to the house alive.' But, with the weakness and wilfulness of a dyiug person, 1 insisted, and, as the day was pleasant, they finally yielded, and a carriage was secured In which they fitted up a bea of pillows. I was carried out, placed in the carriage, and slowly drlvon about the court house square. People looked on in wonder. My relatives all stood about my bed oxpectlng to seo me die at any moment, while friends, who had seen me driven out, came to call at, the house. "One of the friends who called had in her hand a trial bottlo of medicine, which had been given her. It claimed to 1)0 a cure for consumption, and she urged mother to give me some of it. When so many able physicians have declared that consumption cannot be cured, and when in the first stages it is so difficult check, how could any medicine possibly help me, on tho verge or the grave? But a drowning person will grasp at a straw, and so my mother gave me some of the remedy, and cow tinned at short intervals to administer it. .Somehow after taking two doser, I felt better, and so another bottle was procured without delay. Very soon a decided improvement, was noticed in my condition. I continued taking this remedy, which was not only doing me so much good, but was so pleasant to the taste, and 1 solemnly affirm that I owe my complete recovery and rescue from the grave to Dr. Acker's English Hemedy for Consumption, which is the only thing that could and did save me. Today I am as well as I ever was in my life strong and in perfect health. Indeed, my friends consider my recotery nothing short of a miracle. "This, in brief, is the story of my suffering and salvation, and I wish that everv man, woman and child in America might know it, for I see so many who are walking in the same dangf rous read that I was neglecting what they think are slight colds, but which are certain to result in consumption, and perhaps death, unless taken in tlin*. I will cheerfully answer any who may write about my ease, and remain. "Most respectfullj',

SIDNEY, OHIO. "BERTHA SUORH,"

Miles' Nurrf and Mrcr I'll!*. Act on anew principle—rcgulatl ng the liver stomach and bowels through ihr A new discovery. Dr. Miles* Plllsspeedlly cure biliousness, bad taste, torpid liver, piles,const! pa tion. Uneqnaled for men, women and children. Hmallest. mildest, surest! CO 2/5 ris. Ham pie* Free at all druggists.

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If you want Dr. John Bull's Harsapftrtlla, iemand it and take no other. It contains Ingredients that arc not found in any other sarsaparllla. Each ingredient used in

Dr. JOHN BULL'S

Sarsaparllla is chosen for Its beneficent effect upon the human system- Combined, they exert a harmonizing Influence upon every function of the body, improving digestion, «M/I I*(/fn/ttm riloahft. strengthening the liver and kidneys, cleansing the blood of poisonous matter, soothing the nervous system, enlivening the mental faculties, and in a word, by infusing new

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SCROFULA

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Tee" CURED

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