St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 13, Number 21, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 19 November 1887 — Page 4

, BLUE EYES. BY FRED A, HUNT. *“What makes your eves so blue, my dear?"” The lover asked in the sprine of the year, “The color I caught in the mc v dell, Where the choicest forget-ms-nots do dwell.” “What makes your eyes so blue, my wife ?” The husband asked in the summer of life. “They show the htie of the ocean deup, Whers your measureless love in my heart I o keep,” - “What makes your eyos so blue?” quite low, The father asked in ti.e autumn’s glow. “Because the pure love of our children dear Keeps them fresh and youthful from year to year.” “What makes your eyes 81 blue and bright?” The ¢ld man asked in the wintry night. *'Tis because they reflect the heaven above, Where we shall continue our eaithly love.” 3 FORGET US NOT. BY ANNA CERES FRITSCH, During the silent watches of the night . Was homeward borne thy spirit on death’s wing, To that fair land where saints hosanna sing, And pain and sorrow novoer cast their blight. And 'though we mourn for thee and miss thee sore, We would not wish thee back from tranquil rest; We lay thee in thy narrow bed upon earth’s breast, Knowing that thou art oxny gone beforo. Until wo meet again, led by the hand of God. To that sweet clime where chastened spirits dweH, Dear friend and neighbor, take our last farewell: Forget us net in heaven, as thou art unforgot! : BY M. C. FARLEY. CHAPTER XIV. —[CONTINUED ] Miss Chidley, greatly disturbed, advances to meet the stranger. “My niece is indisposed,” the spinster says hurriedly. “I am so sorry, but if you could call at another time——" The visitor looked his disappointment. “Then I can not see her?’ “No, no. She is ill—most seriously indisposed.” His red eyes twinkls. “T'o-morrow, perhaps ?” “Possibly.” Miss Chidley is by no means certain in her own mind that he will ever see her niece. But it doesn’t matter. The stranger turns reluctantly toward the door. He is the same man who had visited the grave of Judith Donithorne a few days previous, “I am greatly disappointed,” he says, casting a lingering glance about the room. “My great desire being to learn from Miss Lafarge the particulars of the death and burial of a lady whom she befriended at the time of the late ra‘lway accident. I may not be in this locality again for some time.” Miss Chidley really hopes he will never be in her locality agam. Dut I she doesn’t say so. She says instead, and knowing perfectly well tliat there is no possibility of such a thing: “My dear Marion may be recovered ; sufliciently in a few hours to grant you | an interview. She would be delighted, | T know, to give you all the information | she can. 'The lady’s death was very l sad.” “Yes,” assents the visitor, with an- ‘ other twinkle of his red eyes, “very | sad, indeed.” ; Then he bows himself out, and Miss | - | . 1 Chidley hastens to the assistance of : Miss Lafarge. o — |4 (HAPTER XV. ’ THE BUTLER'S PLOT.

N second thought Mr. | Polton decides there is no very pressing reason for his immediate return tothe stuffy back bedrocm in his city boarding - house. The airy country inn, in which he has established himself pending Hhis contemplated ne- ! gotiation with the powers that be, at Bywater Park, is by all

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cdds to be preferred to Mrs. McGillicuddy’s fourth-rate lodging-house. The expense of living is no greater, and summer in the country is delightful. Mr. Bolton already feels invigorated and refreshed by the change. If a short sojourn in the country has done done him geod, a longer one will do him still more good. Therefore, though he retires at night with the no- * tion in his head of his speedy departure in' the morning, yet the morning dawns and finds him with this idea en- | tirely dispelled from his mind. | Mr. Bolton’s first thought is of the | roll of money the butler has given | him. He hastens to assure himself | that the whole transaction enacted in | the Park grourds the previous evening is no wild ehimera, or shadow of a' dream, by drawing the roll of lills from their place of concealment be- | neath h's pillow and looking them over. { “I may as well remain here for a | short time,” says Mr. Bolton, who finds I it a matter of conscience to always pander to his own des.res. “Madam] Dundas need not know that I am with- ’ in a thousand miles of her, and il keep shady. For Loo's sake as well | as for my own, it may be as well for ‘ me to remain in this neighborhood for & while, anyway; and here’s money] enough, if I am c.reful, to last until | Madam comes down with that promised ] salary.” | The truth is, Frederic Bolton feels ! a strong desire to once more be looked | upon as 'somebody,” or as an attache to the court of somebody. Madam Dundas is the great lady of the coun- | try side, and this Bolton is quite well aware of. ; Madam might and did ignore Ler relationship to Frederic Bolton; but Freder:c Bolton never forgot, and al- | lowed nobody else to forget, the fact of | his relationship to Madam. | In the country, where everybody knows everybody else, Bolton’s claims upon the mistress of Bywater Park were admitted, and he was treated with deference and respect by the country people. This was soothing to his self- | love, and created a desire in him to continue on in this congenial atmos- | {)here. Moreover, Mr. Bolton was a | ittle anxious to make the better ac- | c¢uaintance of Captain Hazard, and to | find out, if possible, the exact conditions of Madam Dundas’ will. l He .as a good deal annoyed to find | the man Scarth domiciled at Bywater | Park. Scarth was an old offender, as | Bolton had cause to know, and there | was a doubt st:llin I’olton’s mind about | the genuineness of the butler’s alleged | repentance and change of life. | He believed Scarth’s presence boded | no good to the inmates of Bywater | Park. If Scarth really had reformed, ]- a little surveillance conld do him no! possible harm. While if he was up to

his old tricks, the waten set upon his movements might result in positive benefit to Madam’s household. Viewing the subject all around, Bolton decided that upon the whole the best thing to do was to remain where he was for the present, with an eye upon the comers and goers at Bywater 1| Park. By this course of conduct he was certain to please himself at any rate, and pos<ibly he might be the means of doing Madam a good turn, which would result in winning the old ? | lady’s forgiveness. 'l'his being his view of the case, Bolton made himself content. He knew better than to intrude upon the household at Bywater. To intrude upon Madam was to ruin everything. Still, having made up hig®mind to act the part of a watchdog, Mr. Bolton was faithful to the character, and X thereafter, if Madam goes out in her carriage, or walks in the park, or receives a visitor, Mr. Bolton sees it. No movement of the Bywater household y | escapes the watchful Bolton. If Loo : rides out with the Captain, or walks with her auut, or sits mooning under s | the trees, she may be sure the obseryant eyes of her father are upon her. 1t 1s only in the actions of the butler : I that Mr. Boiton feels curiosity and suspicion; and his curiosity and suspicion - | rather increase than diminish as the days go by. The Tuesday appointed for Madam’s party arrives, and, watch closely as he will, still nothingis done by the butler to warrant Bolton’s open condemnation. : On Tuesday morning the light wagon is driven from Bywater Park to the ‘ bank, half a mile distant, presently re- ' | turning with a strong, square box that is heavily clamped and barred with iron. “I'he Bywater plate,” Bolton says to himself, as the vehicle trundles past him, and his eyes light upon the box. “Madamn is doing the thing in regu- - larly swell style. There goes the fam- | ily silver, and it is valuable.” | Mr. Bolton’s eyes follow the box | lovingly, as the wagon disappears through the Park gates. | Then he turns about, fetching a long sigh as his mind reverts again to tho box of silver and the ease it would buy for him were it his own, and converted into cash. As he turns away, his eyes fall upon the short, squat figure of a man who is walking hurriedly iw the shadow of the trees. Bolton’s first impulse is to follow him, and he yields to the impulse. The stranger is some little way in | advance of Belton, and he walks with a peculiar, cat-like, and gliding motion. Bolton follows on slowly and carv-’ fully, and is astonished to see the | stranger pause at a small side gate in l the stone wall —a gate that has long | been disused by the Bywater Park l household. A chain that has grown rusty from disuse fastens the gate to a po-tin the wall. Bolton wonders how the man will remove this rusiy chain, but soon sees that neither the gate nor the chain | itself is a bar to his ingress. | The stranger’s next movement proves I that he is no stranger to the correct management of this half-forgotten gate, for he whips out a key from his pocket, fits the key in the padlock which fastens the gate and chain tot gether, and, presto! the gate opens easily, and he disappears at the inner | . | side of the stone wall. | Bolton wonders. He cautiously ap- | proaches the gate and listens as the low ! murmur of voices on the other side of the wall is borne to his ear. ’ There is a crevice m the high stone wall which shuts Bywater Park from ' the public road. To this crevice Bolton Tl e = t»{_]“" rfl’f 3% "?: ) e VT BEL A T H | b BTG L SRI 1 ) N F 1l 22 =X & 318 ‘qrq IV R EY B 1b LN B e A : M A N | Hi »‘q\' (- b e NTH< Egfi ki) A B o . o !I? vig P _{'AP\ S~/ “!. _ _‘rx 3 - ) 3 {‘i} \1 s pa fSmat || | e o e To this crevice Bolton applied his eyes. -applies his eyes. He sees two figures | standing near each other on the opposite side of the wall. One of the men 'is the party who has just passed | through the gate. The other—there is 'no mistake—is the rascally butler at Bywater Park. Polton instantly recognizes the slim, black-robed figure of Scarth, and all his dormant distrust is at once aroused. e feels certain Scarth is plotting mis- | chief, and as if to dispel even the ' shadow of doubt from his mind, the first low words which fall upen his eats ' reveal the purpose of the two plotters | before him. | “Yes,” the butler is saying, “the ‘ ' plate arrived just now. 1t is worth a fortune, and must be bagged to-night or not at all. Madam has had it brought 1 down from the bank for the party. Tomorrow it will go back again. So to- ' night is the time.” | “About what hour ?” asks his confed"erate. | ke party is to break up at one o'clock. At two the guests will all be | gone, and by three the hous&hold will | be in bed and sound asleep. Say at } ' balf-past three. I am to sit up and watch the plate, which will be stored | 'in the butler’'s pantry as soon as the | guests are gone. At half-past three | you must have the wagon ready at the | ' side gate here, and the plate will be | | ready. - It’s easy enough.” ' | “Yes,” the short man says, with a ' chuckle, “easy enough, that’s certain.” | “Well, well,” gasps Bolton under ! his breath, “this L eats me. Os all the | villains I ever heard of, this precious | | pair beats them all.” E | “I don’t care a straw,” Scarth con- | | tinues fiercely, “for any of the folks at | ' Bywater. I'd rather rob them than ! not. lolks that have must lose, you | {know. And I particularly desire these : ' people to lose. I hate the young lady. | i She knew me the minute she put her i | peepers on me, and I've expected daily | | to be denounced by her.” | I “Maybe we might carry off the young ‘ | lady herself,” says the other. g | “No;: she would be a trouble. The | | silver is enough. I'd like toc give her a | | little crack on the head, though, just | \to remember me by. And maybe 1 ‘ | will.” ] | “He means Il.0o,” thinks Bolton, as ‘ |ho gathers hLimself up in 3 bunch | | against the wail. “Let him so much | | a5 1i t a finger against a hair of Ju.oo's |

| head, and it will be all aay witn | Scarth, or whatever he calls himself,” The two villzins now walked slowly along, still conversing, but in so low a | tone that Bolton failed to catch their | words. | He had heard enough, however, to | enable him to frustrate their designs, | and this he meant to do. They must I not suspect that a listener had over- | heard their plot. DBolton realized this, and at once moved off dowa the road. | He was puzzed at first about the i proper thing to do. But a moment’s reflection decided him upon a course of action. He went directly to the village, | and, hunting up the village constable, | laid the matter before him. This offil cial determined to notify Captain Hazard of the intended robbery, and then | proceeded to lay a plan by which the villains should be taken in the very act. CHAFIER XVL THE ROBBERY,

YWATER PARK | is brilliantly illuminated. Twinkling lights from myriads )of Chinese lanterns dot the grounds, and floods of light stream fromthe long windows of the \houso itself. 'T'he guests are arriving, and the roll of carriage wheels along the graveled drive | is incessant. . Captain Hazard f has suggested to Madam that tho or- l dinary staff at Rywater Park is quite l inade juate to meet |

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the requirements of the occasion, and a number of trained waiters from a® neighboring city arrive in time to help serve the supper. The appearance of this addition to the usual stafl’ rather nonpluses the worthy butler at first. But Captain Hazard remarks casually that he sent for them at the last moment, entirely upon his own responsibility, knowing that the help kept by Madam would be unworthy so skillful a chef as the butler himself, and Kibbey’s suspicions—if suspicions they are—at once subside. The Captain knew, if Kibbey did not, that the new waiters were only so many policemen in disguise. Dut this was something the Captain felt justified in keeping entirely to himself, e did not even take Madam Dundas into his confidence on this point. ® Very stately and dignified in her black satin and point lace, Madam stands in the great drawing-room and receives her guests. 1.00 stands beside her aunt, and there are presenta- | tions and speeches, and flowers and i musi¢c and dancing. [.oo's poor head is in a whirl, but she bears the ordeal very well and acquits herself ereditably, even in Madam’s eritical judgment. Miss | afarge arrives late. She is fairly dazzling in silver gaure cnd pearls, with all her beautiful blonde hair curled and coiled upon her head in the most bewitching fashion imaginable. Straightway she forces the Captain to come to her side, and here she keeps him. i Loo sulks a little; then she thinks better of it, and being really a girl of | some spirit treats her rival to a glance that is intended to be scornful, accepts ; Littlefield’s arm and whirls away among the daneers. | So the hours go by. Midnight comos. | Madam has long since excused herself and gone to lie down on the cushions in the alcove behind the long curtains in the supper-room. She will not retire. Notwithstanding her great age, Madam’s notions of whatis due her | guests will not allow her to seek the r privacy of her own room until the last | carriage has rolled away, and the last | guest paid his parting devoirs. Still, she must rest. So she quietly makes her way into the alcove, unperceived by any one, nobt even by the sharp-eyed Kibbey himself, I Captain Hazard exerts himself to entertain the guests—particularly Miss Lafarge, lLioo thinks, jealously. And | Miss Lafarge accepts his attentions | with becoming grace. She smiles up into his eyes and beams upon him in such a manner that more than one thinks the future mistress of Bywater Park will not be very hard to find when | the right time comes. All this, however, is going on above stairs. i [TO BE CONTINUED. ] : = : i Original Observations. i Some girls are hand-maid and others | again are old made. i If you have money no harm can re- % sult from your meeting a bill. i Henry—No, you are mistaken. Men | who sell glass eyes are not “stair” 1 builders. i We have observed that even “well- | preserved” men are sometimes a triflo | “too fresh.” ! A trunk is in good traveling condi- } tion when it is “strapped.” Alas! ’Tis | not so with a man. ’ “Yes, our relations are strained,” re- , marked an Orange man who had been | whipped by his cousin. i Judge not by appearances. The man | with the biggest wateh-chain very frequently has no watch at all. How strange, yet true, the most successflil miner works in vein—and yet a minor very often works in vain. Tattlers use the thread of conversation to weave falsehoods. Men who “itch” for office should not complain if the voters “scratch” them at the polls. ; Some people have such soleman vis- ! ages that they remind us of that noted | sect, the Sad-u-sees. If you fall in love with a girl at one of the stations on the Midland Road it will be a “Brandy mash.” 1 I wooed an Orange maiden, A lass with orbs of blue; She married another fellow— Alas! What shall I do? “Can you give me a bite?” asked the i tramp of an Orange lady. “Certainly, | I will turn my dog out in a moment; he ] carries a {ull supply of bites, assorted | sizes,” replied the lady. The tramp fled.—Crange Cbserver. O-n little Walter manufactures the | most convenient participles for the oocasion whenever an uncertain verb gets in his way. This morning he was obliged to pick up a large number of | buttons which he had carelessly upset l from their basket, and after the task ! was done he jumped up and said, cheerfully: “I'apa, now I've got ’em all puck up!”—Fabylood. Larri e Nellie, aged two and one- | ‘half, on omitting her father in her | prayer, was told to pray for papa as | usual, and refused. Her mother in- 1 | sisting, Nellie said petulantly: “Well, l | do bless papa, for pity’s sake.”—Baby- ' hood. l ‘ Tue Kentucky idea is that this great | . i \ country revolves saround the whisky : | vine —Xaon Telegraph, i

: PAINTING A PAIN! A Now Parisian Artist’s Canvas Story of a “Rheumatic.” “Tell me, Mr. Wight,” asked our reporter of the well-known art connoisseur of the Everott, New York, “is American art improviug in character and excellence?” “Vm'y much so.” i t%io Americans much patronize foreign &I“Xe& _And as they pay the best pricos, l their private galleries coutiin gems of all the modern masters,” “Which are preferred, works of the molern I or ancient masters?” __“The modern. Historied scenes, real and ideal landecapes, and decided charactors in ! fig‘}}re are the most popular. Tho last timo I was In Paris I picked up a l Vt)};{ strong bit of drawing, which depietod a | middlo-aged man boistere !up in a muclr be- | cushioned chair, Lis faco and surroundines | indicating intense agony. . ' _“His table is crowded with many a physi- | cians’ phial, abandoned bandages, and used- I up bhsters. Before him a tub of stoaming water derisively sends its incense into his ' faco, and tho grate firo cheerily blazas in mockery of his unbappiness. His nurso is a tyvo of dismay. i .+ really enjoy looking at this picture! i L know how the old fo'low feols! I myself | was for {welve {uars a victim of inflammatory l rhenmatism, Every spring and wiater por- | sect torture twisted me for two or turoo i months, during which I was oftan unable to | sleep for a week at a tima; was tormonte | by | continuous agony, and at one time was toally | blind for a fortnight, tho disease havinge sos- | tled in my eyes. I had the best modical skul, | used all tie most approved gciontitic sp(}clfi(:i: | visited the famed mineral springs of Amer- | ; Ica, of Carlsbad and Paris, but every year the ! same mad fire literally burned me alive! | I often laugh to myself as 1 think what an | old ‘bear’ I, too, must™ have boen, when suf- | sering @ithet old fellow seems to be.” | “Aren’t you tempting fate by, muking sport | of your old enemy ?” i “Oh, no, I fear him no longer. My lat | tussle with him was over two years ago, and | all the agony of the years of remission sctilod | on me then. My physicians gave me uo hope | . of recovery. 1 had faith in mysclf, however.” l s Well, how did it work?” 1 The rheumatism was in my caso, as in | nearly all others, caused by a discase of the | blood, probably produced by unsuspocted in- | act vity of the kidneys, for 1 had never had | any pain in them. Twenty bottles of War- | ner’s safe cure, however, completely purifi q | my blood, and I never have enjoved such robust health as now. Hundreds of friends in Lm‘u{m_ and America have, on my recommendation, used it for general debility, mailaria, rheumatism, ete., and I havy never i heard an uusatisfactory report {rom them.” Mr. Wight has a personal acquaintance with the bestart lovers of Lurope and America, and his experience gives weighty testimouy to the remarkable power of the cale- ! brated preparation named. | “You think, then, Mr. Wight, that_thero is substantial art development in America?" i “l certainly do, am} 1 have confidence that [ when the true American idea is sottied upon, I - our development will be both rapid and ex- | | cellent.” ~ MOTHERS OF FAMOUS MEN. What Agassiz, Dickens, Daudet, and Leigh Hunt Owed to Their Mothers, The mothers of famous men are always | interesting studies. Concerning many of | those women the world knows much, but | of the majority it is ignorant. The mother | of Louis Agassiz, the scientist, was the | - wife of a Swiss Protestant clergyman, and | lived to a very old age. l.ouis was her | ~ favorite son. and she trained him with the | - greatest care. When, in 1857, Pypfessor | - Silliman, of Yale College, \isitml%wr. he | found her at four-score a “tall, erect, and | - dignified woman,” with anima‘'ed address ‘ | and cultivated manners. When she was | - assured by her guest that her son's adapt- | - ed country loved him and was prond of | him, her strong frame was agitated, her | { voice trembled with emotion, and the tlow- | - ing tears told the story of a mother's heart. | | The day that Professor Silliman left she - walked a long way in the rain to bid him | and his wife farewell. Presenting them | - with a little bougquet of pansies, she bade | them them tell her son “her pensces were all for him.” DPensee in French means } both pansy and thought. On the stth - birthday of Agassiz, the Satarday Clab of | Bosten celebrated it¢ with a dinner, at - which Longfellow, Holmes, and Lowell f read poems. In the poem of the former, - allusion was made to the natural mother ! ~as mourning over the fact that the great - mother, Nature, had drawn her son from i the fireside where she wished to keep him. | “And the mother at home says, ‘lark! For his voice I listen and yvearn, It is growing late and dark, And my boy does not return,'” Agassiz’ head was bent during the reading of the poewm, but when the allusion to his mother was made, his ruddy face flushed with restrained foeling, tears guthered in his eyes, and as the last line was uttered they dropped slowly down his cheeks, (e after another. x The mother of Alphonse and Farnest Daudet, the French novelist, was an intellectual woman. She was a constant - reader, and her children wers early impressed with her superiority over other - mothers, and were profoundly grateful to her in after life for her careful training of | their minds. The father was a rich silk- | ~weaver, and had only an ordinary mind; loss of fortune soured him, and he seemod 10 have little influence over his gifted sons. - But the mother was their inspiration and L delight,. . The childhoed of Dickens was so shad- . owed by poverty, and his sensitive and ' imagmative mind was so keenly alive to ' his position, that it is hardly possible that - he could draw an absolalely impartial pict- . ure of his parents. His mother had a | keen appreciation of the droll and of the | pathetic, and hkewise considerable dra- % matic talent. She was a comely little . woman, with handsome, bright eyes, and a i genial, agreeable yerson. From ber Dick- ' ens undoubtedly inherited his tempera- ' ment and intellectual gifts. She possessed - an_extraordinary sense of the ludicrous, | and her power of imitat on was something | astonisking. Her perception was quick, - and she unconsciously noted everything i that came under her observation, In de- | , scribing ridiculous occurrences, her tone - and gestures would be inimitable, while | | her manner was of the quaintest. Dickens | declares that to her he owed his first desire | | for knowledge, and that his earliest pas- | sion for reading was awakened by his I mother, who tanght him not only the first rudiments of English, but also a little of Latin. Poverty saddened and darkenecd many years of her l'fe, and her children were early compelled to leave her and earn their own livii g, but they ull bLonored and - loved her as she deserved. l Leigh Hunt thus writes of his mother: “My mother had no accomplishments but | the two best of all--a love of nature and | of books. Dr. Franklin offered to teach - her the guitar; 1 at she was too bashful to become his pupil. She regretted this aft rward, partly, no doubt, for having so illustrious a master. Her first chiid, who died, | was named after him. I know not whether | the aneedote is new, but I have heard that | when Dr. Franklin invented the harmon- | ica, he concealed it from his wife till the - instrument was fit to play, and then woke l her with it one night, when she took it for | the music of angels.” - Woman's Argosy. ’ Weak Creatures. 5 ~ Husband (dressing for an evening en- | tertainment) —“ It seems a pitiable | i thing to me, my dear, that women | | should wear corsets, but women are | - weak creatures at the best.” i Wife—“lf you really wish me to go without one, John, I will,” = ! Husband (hastily)— “No; certainly | i not.”—New York Sun. ; ' THERE is said to be a crow roost just | west of Hinckley, 111., where tens “fx thousands of crows roost every night. | Hunters are having rare sport siicoting | them, much to the satisfaction of the | farmers thereabout. l | e s { | EmreEror Dom PEpre once being | addressed as “your Majesty” in the l presence of Vietor Hugo, replied: l “There is only one majesty here, and | there he sits.” ; A tiEE planted to the memory of ' Charles Darw n jn Cambridge was pe« l centlv «tolen, ]

Mill Ponds ror Money. A bank is a sort of a mill-pond for money. When a natural cascade is not strong enough for turning a millwheel, men build a dam, and collect the water which runs from a hundred springs and brooks above, and this water they let down whenever needed, through a gate and a flume, in a little torrent, upon the wheel. All over the land are men who have worked a good many years and saved their money, and l now they wish to work less and have their money at interest, for they have more money than they need for their | business. They are the springs and brooks from which the money is ran'ning. 'There are other men who are young, industr ons, and enterprising; I ) 3 | they have not so much money as their Ib s ness needs, but can make more profits if some one will lend them ‘ money to build stores or factories, buy goods or materialg, hire clerks or work- } ¢ m 2 ~men., Their wheels need a flood to turn them. For this purpose of turn(ing the wheels of bus ness, a few men lln some chief towns join in forming a bank, to receive the money of those iwlm have more than they are using, ~and loan it to those who need more “than they have.-——Oenjamin Vawughan | g 3 ; g | Abboll, in Histcry and S .iince for CGrammar Schools. ; When Your Nerves Bother You, - Invigorate them. When your night's reposa | is unsound or wunrefreshing, your appetite | Jaded or capricious, when slight noises causo . you to start, and annoyances of slight moment | abnormally worry you, know three things, viz.: Ist, that your nerves aro weak; 2d, that you | - need a tonic; 3d, that its name is Hostotter's ; : | Stomach Bittors, tho promptest. safest, most | | popular article of its class. The nerves are - susceptiblo of invigoration only by promoting | an increaso of vigorin the processas of digestion } and invigoration. Narcotics and sedatives have . thoir utility, but in the main, and if thei: usy | i be continued, they aro unsafo. A wineglass of I the Bitters beafore retiring, and ¢ repetition of | tho same during the day before or after meals, | is far more likely to confer hoaalth-yielding | sleep than repeated doses of an opiate. Dys- | pepsia, debility, inactivity of the kidneys and bladder, fever and ague, and other malarial complaints are always dominated and subdued i by it. . in a New York Bobtail Car. Car-driver—7 You can’t smoke in this | Car. | Passenger—Why not? i C. D.—-Because there are ladies in the car. | P.—Why, that's the very reason I ' have to smoke; I want to deaden the swell of musk and patchouly.—Harper's Maga:ine. Tiue nutritive value of mushrooms Ilum been investigaled in Germany by . T. Moerner, who shows that to get ‘an equivalent of an average liew's-egg ' a person must eat ten and a half ounces -of Agaricus compestris, or no less than | four pounds ot Polyporus ovinus; and that nine pounds of the former variety |or sixty-seven pounds of the latter would be needed to cqual the pound of beef. | R L E To prraM of a ponderous whale, | Erect on the tip of his tail, ‘ Is the sign of a storm } (If the woather is warm), | Unless it shoull happen to {ail, ’ Dreams don’t amoeuont to mueh, anvhow. some signs, however, are infallible. 1t you | Are mmst;n\h'\l‘ with no appot te, tortured w.th sick headache and bilions symptoms, theso signs indicate that you noad Dr. Prerce's P'leasant Purgative Pellets They will cure you. All druggists. “Cax you recommend for me a good bome course of botany?” asks a correspondent. Yes, the flour barrel. WHEN all #O-called remeodies fail, Dr. Sage's Catarrh Remedy cures, I¥ a man could be divorced from his creditors how busy the courts would be . l\('!'i. » Chronic Coughs and Colds, And all diseases of the Throat affl Lungs, can be cured by tho use of Beott's Emulsion, asat contains the healing virtues of Cod Liver O1 and Hypophosphites in their fullest form. Is & boautiful erecamy FEmu!sion, palatable as milk, easily digested, and can bo taken by the most delicate. Please read: *I consider Scott's Emulsion the remedy par cxcellence in Tuberculous and S rumous Affections, to say nothing of ordinary colds and threat trou- | bles.”—W. . 8 CoxxeLyn, M. D., Manchester, Qhio, A CORSET lis nothing more than a waist basket without any poetry in it. “The Farmers’ Poultry Raising Guide,” This is the title of a new and valuable book on poultry raising for profit. This book answers in advance every possible question in rospect to keeping and cariung for poultry and gives in the plainest possible maaner ali needad instructions to enable beginners or old hands to carry on the business succossfully, and make money. If you desire to know how to make hens lay the year round; how to fatten market pouliry quickly; how to dress and ship poultry and sell eggs to obtain the higzhest prices; how to build inexponsive hen-houses and yards; how to discover, prevent, and cure all diseases of poultry; how to select and obtain choice breeds, and how men and women of long experience in the business make money, then send at once for a copy of THE I'ARMERS’ POULTRY RAIsING GUIpE, published by 1. S, John=on & Co., 22 Custom iluu-.- street, Doston, Mass, Pries 25 cents. This book 1s \\ru'{uwl‘\' illustrated with engravings of model poultry housos and runs, also many of the best breeds of hens, ducks, turkeys, and geese. This work presents a matter of supreme importance to oeverybody, but especially to women, children, and invalids, for there 13 probably no way by which a small but coastant ¢v<h income can be socured with so littla effort as by keeping and caring for hens. From now until next March tho price of eggs will advance highor and higher each month. Do not, therefore, delay, but send at once and get a copy of this valuable book. During the seasoa of high prices the hens should be kept buiy. For 60 cents in stamps Johnson & Co. w.il send postpaid a copy of Tur FARMERS' POULTRY RAISING GuipeE and two 25-cent packs of Sheridan’s Powder t) make hons lay, or they will send a 2 -pound tin can of Powder at vegular rate (1.20) and a copy of the GUIDE free. Catarrh Cured. A clergyman, after years of sufforing from that loathsome disyaso, Catarrh, and vaiaiy trying every knm\'x‘x remedy, at last found a preseription which completely cured and saved him from death. Any sufferer from this dreadful disease sonding a self-addressed stamped envelops to Prof. J. A. Lawrence, 212 East Nimmth streot, Now York, will receive the recipe free of charge, : Consumption Surely Cured, To the Editor: -Pleaso inform your roaders that I have a positive remedy for the abovenamed discase, By its tirely use thousands of hopeless cases have boen pormanently cured, [ shall bo glad to send two bottles of my remody - ¥REE to any of your readers who have consumption if they will send me their Express and P. O. address. Respectfullyv, | T, A, SLOCUM, M. 0., 181 Pearl Bt., N, Y. | California Execursions. ~ Recont changes to the advantago of those buying tickets via Tie GREAT RoOCK IsSLAND Lioure. For civenlar giving fuil particalars ad lress B A Honsrook, General Ticket and Passenger Azent, Chicago.

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