St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 16, Number 3, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 12 July 1890 — Page 7

THE OLD CHURCa BY IL n, JOHNSON. a “’"’ “I. ““ “ J ■»•« « With tots of little rooms below for festivals and ind one big room for preachin’, with its new. and easy chairs? P®v. a what’s wrong about the dear old chrw-n worshiped in so long? ‘ r “ we ve fbo wall* are good the clapboards tight tb« windows sound and strong- 8 tn ° n,# SK‘* 10ttkiU ’ B ° me ’ but tha t can be * aad tbere the ° ld ChUrCh — Sweet memories clusterin’ there will last ti life shall end. last th. Each timber joist and board and nail Beem , spoakin with a tongue. seems And tollin’ of the good done here since you and T were young. J l ana * Besidethat dear old altar there, just fifty yoarg I knelt and begged for pardon, and Christ washed my sins away ; BV ' va sned And though old Time has thinned mv hair , bleached it white as snow y and that altar is as dear to me as fifty years ago ^“goS I™’™ 1 ™’™ ÜBtened t 0 ftonlholy ^"^ch^rsS 0 lyla ' COld ^“piuruth “ y earS t<>day ’ and full of Gos. AS "^of^outh. 611 ^ 6 ^ tO them ia tho “V days I jeem to hear the preacher's voice say “Broth ren, let us pray,” leln * And all the congregation kneel in the old-sash toned way; lat,u I seem to hear the thrillin’ shouts of “Glorv” and “.Amen 1 fr 0 1“ th ® peOple ’ s hearts and echoin’ f seem to hear those old-time hymns we all so loved to sing, 80 That used to swell from ev’ry heart, and made the old church ring. maae There's one now ringin’ in my ears : “Let anooln prostrate fall. " eL an S el s diadctU "own Him L/DTu ox ail I ”” h M1 “ ’“"'w •• ,h « d “- No, brethren not a dollar will you get from mv old hand I J I’d rather give five hundred more and let the old church stand? 60, I beg you, let the old church stand ; and when this old, gray head Shall lie beneath the Howers in the citv of the dead, J Then you can tear the old church down and build one new and grand; But while I live, oh, heed my prayer and let the old church stand. HIS BLUNDER. by c. f. case. John Kelly had but lately settled iu Metropolisville, and people oniv knew him as a seemingly respectable' druggist. Two years before he had left a drug store in Chicago, into which he had been introduced by parents in Boiler Avenue, who found that the rearing of bo many children and so many goats at the same time was likely to reduce too much the surplus of their revenue, and bo lessened the former incumbrances as fast as they could find situations for them. He had been taken in to sweep the store, and he did it so well that a slight promotion soon followed, and this in a few months fully fitted him, according to the inventory he took of himself, for business on his own hook; and as he had recently drawn a lottery prize which, by some chance, had escaped the usual home protection, he went West and opened the Eagle drug store at Butternut Ridge. Here he rapidly rose in his own esteem, and after a few weeks’ study of pharmacology, as taught in the dispensatory, he adopted the more enterprising and more economical plan of manufacturing most of his own mixtures. Things went on with a brightening horizon till one day his aptitude to make errors tripped him up. La grippe had just shown itself at Butternut Ridge, or the citizens imagined so, which in effect was the same thing, and Kelly, with his usual promptness in emergencies, at once discovered an infallible remedy for ■t, and advertised. CHe had, however, an old customer, who never yearned after new discoveries in medical science, but whose confidence was solidly anchored to a Tom-and-Jerry preparation that had been prescribed in his youth and to which he had been very loyally attached through manhood. The corporation, though, had voted and more or less adopted prohibition as the headline j of its moral creed, and Tom-aud-Jerry unadorned fell under this sumptuary law, and was interdicted. The customer .referred to, Mr. Gillhooly, with Mr. Kelly’s chemical suggestions and pharmaceutical knowledge, arranged a stimulating substitute that slipped under the protection of law as a medicine, but still held at the will of the operator all the untamed restlessness of forty-rod bourbon. The afternoon of which we speak Kelly had mixed a gallon jar of this medicine and another similar jar of tne new remedy for the grippe; and, in Betting them »way had wholly forgotten whether the Tom and Jerry improvement was at the right of the asafetida bottle and the grippe solution on the left,or vice versa. . This indecision in a drug store is not as safe as among hardware, and, consequently, when the matron ot the voung ladies’ seminary informed him that nearlv her whole flock was laboring under “the preliminary indisposition of the Russian invader, Kelly gave her three-quarters of Gillhoolys mixture by mistake, and advised an immediate and liberal absorption A little later the Reverend Ml Smythe came in, and professing a similar affliction took the last quart from the same jar and went to his duties w th a faith in pharmacy that was like j fade with time. ... -> Mr Gillhooly called later still, and said that as he had to address a caucus that evening it was absolutely essential that he should fortify Inmse f with half a gallon of his favorite dissolvent. Kelly locked his store that night wit a tolerably clear conscience, and a prettv strong confidence in his a L J to work the world with one sort oi a lever or another whatever happened. In the morning he was interviewed by the Mayor and other prominent citizens, who explained that his rem edies had entirely faded to fulfill

There had* been° f a the advertis ement [ heard that niHd .- 80uud , of revelry i necessitated 80 ^ lnar y which t! shal, who had m . lOU by the ^arl; dozen young hdv^n th ? matron an d a I symptoms Os la" J> Upi 3 nianifesting 1 I diagnosed in conn«Jr IPPe before ! i plaint, the detail ''V ■ tllat COm * ' deemed wise' and " hmh it had been JKev. Smvthe had 1 ?' 01 ' 1 the afternoon to prea^rn 7* ed ia 1 ! mon for iworH. le . funeral ser- , ' conducted the ken-ien ri ^ UOner ’ aud bad : manner indeed ' ln a Ver l Rtran g« , I quent as he ? tldul y <*>- I that the deGeve^ eUe<l ' ^ e . bad declared 1 a brick S ! 1 &S ft brick > had been Russia i\d ? l \ e , tllnG Catherine of that most of th^later 611 A ll ? 61 ? 011 ’ and moots that entemSsA lmprove - American soil L 1 '• ud dumped on Park obelisnue H luun, B the Central and the S 1 ?y ramid Ghiza, had come from tlm dlm ° museum ’ decked e , pnvate Purse of the ! Such a m a M° r ° I he l feil iuto the soup. ' sulate in Kin d<?ad BUre to set a con ’ • utate in Kingdom Come or there was Ino reliability i n the text 1 i iis worthv 4-1 • -*-HO laborer i nathv fiY t? i ac k’P°t. Hefeltsymllß af • th ° berea 'ed widow who was | a Slashing vrettv wo an “ . f " a3 i future a s ready au iucumbrance on his I her in oS of 1 H RCU ° n he would tako hanged if he wou^’^klen dosed by saying that if SOm e good brother hat tbo cb<dr mi ght sing J- he Girl I Left Behind Me,” or an? other appropriate hvmn y ' sailing ^’bbu and said that he had been in politics ’steen years, and had never had so almiX mean a trick played on him before. In his caucus speech he bad utterly failed and so confused had been his ideas that he had been unable to tell the opposition whether the tariff on hides ought to be reduced or increased. All' he could think of was that blanked Tom and Jerry and the blankety blanked ooi that had mixed it as a caucus cordial It was getting pretty hot for Kelly at Butternut Ridge, and he sold out'before night and left to grow up with a latitude and longitude farther west. 1 his is how he happened to be now in Metropolisville. Before he had been a week in his new home he fell into an act of eratic foolishness that gave his hold on fortune_ another check. A matrimonial publication fell into his hands, sent out by a- purported agency that advertised to secure to either sex who paid the fees a life partner with any qualification desired, including great wealth. Love is no new thing to an Irishman; but Great Wealth! Mother of Hannah! That was worth investigating, bo he sent his dollar and a flattering pedigree that lacked nothing but truth. But to secure partial protection he signed the fictitious naxpe of John Merriweather, but requested letters sent only to the number of his postoflice box. Presently there came a letter breathing of unsatisfied love and hinting somewhat indistinctly of wealth galore, wealth that was a burden. It was signed Winnie Wolfort, and was soon followed by several others which, in a short time led to a proposal and a prompt acceptance. Miss Wolfort was no chicken, and meant business. She had made inquiries, and had ascertained that there was a John Merriweather at Metropolisville, and that, in the parlance of the wild and woolly West,he was well fixed. Believing that it is best to strike while the iron is hot she took the train next day for Metropolisville, and, on arrival inquired where Mr. Merriweather resided. She was directed to a farm-house two miles away. There she found John Merriwether to be a red-headed son of toil about 55 years of age, dressed in a hickory shirt and overalls, and chewing plug tobacco as if he had never heard that such dissipation would cloud his intellect, impair his health and shorten his days. “So you are John Merriweather?” inquired' Miss Wolfort with a somewhat disappointed stare. “I reckon, ma'am, you’ve got on the right trail this time;” Merriweather answered, “but if I’ve ever met you afore it must a been when you want dressed quite so spruce like, and hang me if I don’t disremember your face aud name I entirely.” “Is there any other John Merriweather in this vicinity ?” “Nary one but me. They’s a Joshua, and a Peter and a William Henry, that's called Bill for short, but they’s boys o’ mine, aud they and the two gals and me is the only' Merriweathers in this country. I know.” “Did you ever write to Miss V»mme WoHort?” . “Not’s I ’member on. If I did it must a’ been forty years ago, for I haint writ a line but once sence, and that was to sign a fool contract with a lightning rod man. Darn ’em, they put eleven hundred feet o’ rod all over me aud 1 had to pay right smart too; aud then the first thunder storm skipped everything else just to knock that rodded house o’ mine galley west. It did, by jingo.” . . “There is some very disagreeable mistake about this matter, Mr. Merriweather,” exclaimed Miss Wolfort with a flushed face. “Look at this lettei, sn. John Merriweather took the letter and read it very slowly and carefully. “’Pears to me like a regular legal I proposal of marriage, Miss. Yes, and hang me if here ain’t my name at the end on’t. I never writ it, though; and no Merriweather ever did. They can t any on’em do it so slick as that, io be sure, I’m a widower, and if you can t find the feller you expected to, and have got vour mind made up 101 a Mem^atber, why I’ll help e«ry out , the program drafted out in this letter, blamed if I won’t, and thank you, । to “'w- Merriweather, I don’t think you can realize hoiv terribly and cruelly I have been imposed on by 80 “ e Metropolisville that ought to be pun iS ^Yes I do- If 3 forgery and hitch up the oxen and take you dow

to lawyer Jones’S. He’ll hunt this thing down just for fun. He’s a good one, I tell you to ferret out crime. I had a calf stole once and be took hold of the case fur me and blamed if he didn’t find out all about it seven years after. The calf had grown up and been killed and et for beef and the thief had enlisted in the army and been shot, so that I never got anything, but it was always a satisfaction to me to know ivhat became of that calf.” Miss W olfort was glad to accept this aid. She ivas tired, and her feelings were lacerated. She wanted to know who had toyed with tender sentiments behind an incognito, and was even willing to pay a lawyer’s fee for the j refreshment of a little sweet revenge. 1 .Lawyer Jones took hold of the case 1 with avidity. He liked above all things to uifcover the covered; and I before night he had traced this cor- j respondence with Miss Wolfort to its proper source. Kelly admitted it all after exposure became certain, and having through the same lawyer ascertained 1 that Miss Wolfort’s; wealth was mostly laid up where moth and rust could not reach it, he declined to meet her; but, inasmuch as he had, after a sort, committed forgery by using the name of a man he had not known existed, he was induced to pay handsomely for freedom from legal action, and thus the wounded feelings of Miss Wolfort were soothed for the time being, and the angel of peace fluttered near to get iu more of her work if possible. J ohnMqrriweather’s oxen were getting very hungry, and were pawing the soil iu expression thereof before their owner could make up his mind to start for home. “I’ll tell you what you’d better do, Miss Wolfort,” he said just as the moon climbed up from behind a distant Laystack. “You’ve been fooled like smoke in this writin’ business, and it’s a pesky shame. To be sure, you’ve found John Merriweather, but he ain’t just the bird o’ paradise you'd pictured, though I do say it, he’s an honest man. Now, under the circumstances, hadn’t you better take this John for better or worse, seein’ as how you can’t find the other? And you are away from home and on expense. It’ll cost you like smoke to pay carfare back agin, and you can just as well ride back to the farm with me as uot. If you say so, xve’ll go over to the parson’s and get married this evenin’ at my expense, blamed if we wont.” Miss Wolfort, as we have before remarked, was no chicken. This style of love making was not exactly in accordance with Marquis of Queensbury rules she knew, but she had also learned that “life is real, life is earnest,” and she saw through the corrugated exterior of this romance a good home with plenty to eat, and prospective quietude from the storms of life. So she put her little hand in the large one of John Merriweather, and when the oxen reached the Merriweather farm, the three boys and the two girls were formally introduced to a new mother, and were, of course, pleased to see their pa so happy. She Knew All About It. Just about midnight the other night four men at the Abbey sat looking at a fifth. The fifth one was drunker than the other four. While all men were created equal, some men get drunk twice as fast as others. “It will never do to send him home in this condition,” said one of the four after a long silence. “No, it would break his wife’s heart,” added a second. “But we can’t leave him here aud if we turn him out the police will run him in,” observed the third. “I have been thinking,” mused the fourth. “He has a telephone at his rooms. Here is one here. I will make it my painful duty to inform his waiting and anxious xvife that he won’t be home to-uight.” He went to the telephone, got her call and began: “Mrs. Shifter,! desire to communicate with you regarding your husband.” “Well, go ahead.” “He is down here.” “I knoxv that much.” “In descending the stairs leading to the lodge-room he fell and sprained his neck.” “ Are you sure he didn’t break his neck ?” “It is not a serious sprain, but we think it better to let him lie on the sofa in the ante-room until morning. Rest assured that he will have the best of care. We are doing ev—” “Say!” broke in a sharp voice, “you bundle him into a cab and drive him up here, where I cau keep him hidden until that drunk goes oil'! He won’t be sober until to-morrow night.” “My dear mad —” “Get out! If he is sleepy drunk put water on his head. That’s the way I always do.” “Will you let me inform you that-—” “No. sir, I won’t. Throw water on his head, get him into a cab and send him here, for it’s most midnight now and it will take me half an hour to get his boots off aud push him up-stairs! Remember—pour water on his head and yell ‘fire’ in his ear.” A Dangerous Clam. The giant clam is the largest bivalve known. In Northern Australia this is considered an edible species and is regularly sought after by the natives. Mr. Denton, of the United States Fish Commission, has seen clams containing 4,0 to 50 pounds of meat, aud it is a matter of record that individuals, weighing 300 pounds, have been observed The giant clam lies almost concealed in the reefs, just showing the beautiful blue and green of its mantle above the coral. The crashing power of this shell 'is startling. Mr. Denton thrust a stick ' as big as a man’s leg beriveen the valves i of one of them, and it was broken short I off A man’s foot would be crushed as easily as a pipestem. The natives have a wholesome dread of stepping unawares into one of these formidable traps. They kill the animal by stabbing it with a long sword and then remove the meat without disturbing the shell, thus saving themselves a vast amount Aif labor and trouble. — Baltimore Sun. Pleasure is the flower that fades; remembrance is the lasting perfume. I

The world over there have been ob- j served about 100 species of mosquitoes, but in our temperate regions there are not apt to be found more than ten species. It is hardly yet determined whether their existence is for the better or worse of mankind, but a gentleman has placed at the disposal of the American Museum of Natural History the sum of 45200 to be paid in three prizes for the best essays on the destruction of mosquitoes, flies, and other insects. We would suggest universal compulsory vaccination with the expectation that in the course of time the mosquities would all die off of blood poisoning.—Dr. Foote’s Health Monthly. Illusions of Motion. Watch a waterfall for some time, and the water appears to stand still, while the rocks behind it move up. While sitting in a train and watching another train passing, it is impossible, if the latter be of closed carriages (like a mail train), to say which of four thingsis happening. The other train may be at rest, or we may be at rest, both trains may be moving in the same direction, but ours quicker, or in contrary directions. We can only settle the question by looking out of the other window. Confirmed. The favorable impression produced on the first appearance of the agreeable liquid huit remedy. Syrup of Figs, a few years Igo, has been more than confirmed by the pleasant experience of all xvho have used it, and the success of the proprietors and manufacturers, the California Fig Syrup Company. By a new method of cementing iron the parts cemented are so effectually joined as to resist the blows even of a sledge hammer. The cement is composed of equal parts of sulphur and white lead, with a proportion of about one-sixth of borax. When the composition is to bj applied it is wet with strong sulphuric acid, and a thin layer of it is placed between the two pieces of iron, which are at once pressed together. In five days it will be perfectly dry, all traces of the cement having vanished, and the work having every appearance of welding. No Land on Which the Sun Shines Possesses greater natural advantages than our own, but there arc portions < f the great grainbearing West and fertile South where atmospheric Influences prejudicial to health militate against them, in some degree, as places of residence. Heavy rainfalls and the overflow of great rivers, which upon their subsidence leave dank vegetation exposed to the rays of the sun, there begot malarial fevers, aud there also the Inhabitants are periodically obliged to use some medicinal safeguard agaiust the scourge. The most popular is Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, a preventive that has for over a third of a century afforded reliable protection to those whom experience in the futility of ordinary remedies for fever and ague, has taught to substitute for them. Whether intermittent or remittent, miasmatic fevers are conquered and averted by the superb anti-periodic and fortifying medicine as they are by no other preparation in use. Use it, and abandon impure local bitters. An insect pest called the “aphis” has been causing great destruction on the Pacific const, but now it is discovered that the ladybug (adalia bipunctata) is very busily engaged in eating ud the aphis. The ladybug is a charming creature, well known to literature and to folklore, and it is especially pleasant to learn that it has gone into a useful business. NEW TRANS-CONTINENTAL ROUTE. Via Chicago, Milwaukee A St. Faul aud Northern Facitic Kailroads. Through Pullman Sleeping Car leaves Chicago daily nt 5:30 p. m. For St. Paul nnd Minneapolis. For Far 40, North Dakota. For Helena end Butte, Montana. For the Yellowstone Park. For Spokane Falls and Tacoma. For Portland, Oregon. Best Route to Seattle and all North Pacific Coast points. The scenic hue to California, via Portland and the Shasta Route. '1 ickets on sale at 207 Clark street and Union Passenger St it ion, Canal, Adams and Madison streets, Chicago. A quick-piking gun, the invention of Mr. Thronsen, was tested recently nt* Finspong. in Sweden. The results showed that ten shots can be fired within twenty-five seconds, which is twenty-four shots a minute. All the shots were true, and hit the target within a space of nine inches long by six inches wide. We moved here recently, and the druggist said he didn't have any Dr. Bull’s Worm Destroyers, but when I said I wouldn't have any other, he said he would get some In a :ew days, and so he did. I know what Dr, Bull’s Worm Destroyers will do. and will not give my children any other.— Atrs. J, 1). Flair, Burton, Cal. Locusts are so numerous in some parts of South Australia that they cause a continual roar while flying, and the country is being stripped of everything green by the sconn.e. Six Forels Free, will be sent by Cragin & Co.. Philada., Pa., to any one in the U. 8. or Canada, postage paid, upon receipt of 25 Dobbins’ Electrics Soap wrappers. See list of novels on circulars around each bar. Soap for sale by all grocers. M. L. Durgin, of Hilo, Me., is hale and hearty at four score, and for sixty-three years he has not tasted of tea or coffee. HALL’S CATARRH CURE is a liquid and is taken internally. Sold by Druggists, 75c. Judge—l think you might be honest if you were to accustom yourself to it. Prisoner —Maybe so, Judge; habit is a queer thing. — Texas Siftings. Beecham’s Piles cure Bilious and Nervous ills. In a doubtful State: Wonder if she loves me?— Boston Herald. “Dirt defies the king.” If the old proverb be t; ue, SAPO LIO is greater than royalty itself. Try it In your next house-cleaning. Grocers keep it. Fo Opium in Piso’s Cure for Consumption. Cures where other remedies fail. 25c. A pocket match-safe free to smokers of “Tansill’s Punch” sc. Cigar. Good As Gold 80 enthusiastic are thousands of people over the benefits derived from Hood’s Sarsaparilla that they can hardly find words to express their confidence in and gratitude for this medicine. ‘Worth its weight in geld" is a favorite expression of these warm friends. If you need a good medicine to purify your blood and build up your strength, try Hood's Sarsaparilla Bold by all druggists, fl; six for $5. Prepared only by C. I. HOOD & CO., Lowell, Mass. 1 100 Doses One Dollar

PrMQIOKC PHTERTS and Government claims of all I f LivulvltO kinds prosecuted byTHos.McBHKr.HY. Attorney at Law, Washington, D. C.. and Fremont, O. PATENTS li ma B I’m KW! 11 JB as Send lor circular. MENTION THIS PAPKR wsaa wairis* to abvsanaaas. PC U C In M C NEW LAW. smym snldiers? niiaEUhw widow.-, and relaiives entitled. Apply at. once. Blanks an t instrni Hou free. SOL'LKS A; CO., Atfy^. WaslniiKton. I>. C. II RK&I Hnblt - The only certain J * ilwßl untl eas Y cure. Dr. J. L. u H liVK Stephens. Lebanon. Ohio. MENTION THIS PAPER whin wnrrni* ro ioninMu. JXT oxtv X’ou.isiioaa. Xiaxv • 1 300.0011 names to be added to ti e Pension list. Rejected and delayed Claims allowed. Technicalities wiped out. Have vour claim sei tied without delay. DATRICK_<FFAKRKLL. Washington. D. C. PFM 51 ft M ® H WK HK tS llev ’ J Bucce»«or no fte. ■ aw 61 “W2sy rß . experience A. W. McCormick* Som.W&ahlngton, D. C., * Cincinnati, 0. Q7E OO fn VOEn a MONTH can be made w 1 0,““ * u b£uU.*“ working for us. Persons preferred who can Inrulsh a horse and give their whole time to the business. Spare moments any be profitably employed also. A few vacancies in towns and cities. B. F. Johnson & Co.. 10011 Main St.,Richmond.Va Fl EN SIO 3 yrs in last war, 15 adjudicating claims, atty sines. KIDDERWsmT&S^ MENTION THIS PAPER wmnwa vo ibtiiihiiu. ST BS 8 S 3 Thousands ENTITLED |R L L? 88 B V under the NEW ACT. ■ n® <8 ! SSIM <5 Writ - Immediately for g HU BO St BI.ANKs for applica- | tion. J. B.CKALI.E* CO., Washington,D C. Wi QI fi K IE RH * Sll ill'd sent FREE. Feeslo it eucE SOI tjv 8 ?ces lul.Otherwis<- nothing. Ad s TAI| MDGETTHLMACGE Cbica«o,lll.AWashington,D.C A^NAME Tills PAPER every time you write. PENSIONS I EXPERIENCE. ; Apply to Mi IQ B. STEVENS a CO- Att’yK. 1419 F st..Waßhington.D.C. Branch unices,Clcvelaud.Detroit,Chicago Tho Soft Clow of Tho j TEA ROSE £ !s Acquired by Ladies Who Uoo POZZOMFS MEDICATED COMPLEXION i POWDER. TRY IT. SOLD EVERYwFhERE. To cure Biliousness. Pick Headache. Constipation. Malaria. Liver Complaints, take the safe and certain remedy. SMITH'S BILE BEAMS Use the SMALL SIZE (40 little beans to the bot. tie,. They ure tho most convenient: suit all age* Price of either site, 25 cents per bottle. IfßQCßiyr* at 7, 17, 70: Fhoto-gravur^ mOwililwi panel size of this picture for 4 cents (coppers or stamps). J. F. SMITH ACO.. Makers of "Bile Beans.” St. Louis. Ma RADWAY’S REaBY RELIEF. THE GREAT CONQUEROR OF PAIN. For Sprains, llrulset, Ka< karhe. Pain in the Chest or Side*, KradiM^ie, Tootharbe, or any other external pain, a few applieatiousi übbed on by hand art like nia^ic, eausin^ the pain 1 to instantly stop. For CoiiuestioiK, Col<lm, Bronchitis, I’neiitnonla, Inilatnniations. iUieumat ism. Neuralgia. latinbago. Sciatic.i. mote thorough and repeated applications are neces-ary. All Internal Fains, Diarrhea. Colic, Spasms, Nausea. Faint ini; Spells. Nervousness, Sleep** les^nesK are relieved instanily, aud quickly cured by taking inwardly 20 t:> UO drops in halt h t> mblet* of water. 50c. a bottle. All Druxuists. RAD WAY’S n PILLS, An excellent an*! mild Cathartic. Purely Vegetable. The Saiest ami be.^t Medicine in the world for the Cure of all Disorders । of ttu> LIVER, STOMACH OR BOWELS. Taken according directions they will restore health and renew vitality. Price 25 cts. a Box bold by all Druggists.

Best Cough Medicine. Recommended by Physicians. Cures where all else fails. Pleasant and agreeable to the K&H taste. Children take it without objection. By druggists. ^^PAINLESS. PILLSEFFECTUAL?®^ I 38^ WORTH A GUINEA A BOX.^ ( For BILIOUS & NERVOUS DISORDERS Such as Wind and Ptin in the Stomach, Fullness and Swelling after Meals, k Dizziness, and Drowsiness, Cold Chills, Flushings of Heat, Loss of Appetite, ( Shortness of Breath, Costiveness, Scurvy, Blotches on the Skin, Disturbed / Sleep, Frightful Dreams, and all Nervous and Trembling Sensations, &c, ? THE FIRST DOSE WILL CIVE RELIEF IN TWENTY MINUTES. ? BEECHAM'S PILIS TAKEN AS DIRECTED RESTORE FEMALES TO COMPLETE HEALTH. / For Sick Headache, Weak Stomach, impaired < Digestion, Constipation, Disordered Liver, etc., $ they ACT LIKE MAGIC, Strengthening the muscular Systam, restoring long-lost Com- S plexion, bringing back the keen edge of appetite, and arousing with the ROSEBUD OF C HEALTH the whole physical energy of the human frame. One of the best guarantees / to the Nervous and Debilitated is that BEECHAM’S FILLS HAVE THE LARGEST SALE OF ) ANY PROPRIETARY MEDICINE IN THE WORLD. $ Prepared only by THOS. BEECHAM, St. Helena, Enncnshlre. England. / Sold Uy Druggists generally. B. F. ALLEN CO.. 355 and 367 Canal St, New York, > Sole Agents for the United States, trho (if your druggist does not keep them) WILL AI AIL \ BEECHAM’S TILLS on RECEIPT ot PRICE,2Scts. A BOX. (Mention this Papzk.) / ^^WATERPROO? =■» THAT CAN BE RELIED ON BE UP TXfOt TO S TPllt ’ TO — ———- THE MARK L—- BEARS THIS MARK. j ¥ _ trade ^^ELLuloiD Mark. NEEDS NO LAUNDERING. CAN BE WIPED CLEAN IN A MOMENT. THE ONLY LINEN-LINED WATERPROOF COLLAR IN THE MARKET,

BABY FREE >• J.lv .>» th. Vniirii mat*. Al-. Baby JUMPEM. BICYCLES, \^*33s?a t .OKTU f *.■{ GIRLS' lllh G... m.r. wholamil* •••iL'- O. D. d i-.t r.um L. O. bPF.SCkK'H Factory. 221 W. >»• •‘■••J b.ad 2c. .lamp for pemSssSH lather- are entitled io .12 a month. Fee $lO, when you get jour money. Blanks free. Josei.h H. Hunter, Alt’y, Washington, D.C. wm? FSTCH & co., 102 Corcoran Building. Washington. D.C., PENSION ATTORNEYS of over 155 years’ experience. Successfully prosecute pensions and claims of all kinds in shortest possible time. aarNO FEE UNLESS SUCCESSFUL. N~EW P^NSidW law; THOUSANDS NOW ENTITLED WHO HAVE NOT BEEN ENTITLED. Address for forms ior application and full information WM. W. DUDLEY, LATE COMMISSIONER OF PENSIONS. Attorney at Law, Washington, D. C. (Mention this Paper.) 0 LtßlOgtJSl 0 Dependent widow, and parents now dependent whose sons died Horn effects of army service are included. If you wish your claim speedily and successfully prosecuted. Address JAMES TANNER, Late Commissioner of Tensions, Washington, D. C. The Oldest Medicine in the World is probably UK. ISAAC THOMPSON’S , CELEBRATED EYE-WATER. This article is u carefully prepared physician’s prescription, and has been in constant use for nearly a century. There are few diseases to which mankind are subject more distressing than sore eyes, and none, perhaps, for which more remedies have been tried without success. For all external inflammation of the eyes it is an infallible remedy. If the directions are followed it will never fall. We particularly invite the attention ot physicians to Its merits. For sale by all druggists. JOHN L. THOMPSON, SONS fc CO., Troy, N. Y. Established I*9 >. “DraDEHT PEKSIONBILL has become a law. Sl2 FER MONTH to a 1 honorably discharged Soldiers and Sailors of the late war. who aie incapacitated from earning a support. Widows the same, without regard to cause of death. Depei iieut Parents aud Minor Children also interested. OveriOyears’ experience References in ad parts ot the country. No charge if unsuccessful. Write at once for “Copy of Law,” blanks, and full in- . tructions. ALh free, to R. McALLISTEK & CO. (Mucceesors to Wm. Conard & Co.), P. O. Box 715, Washington, D. C. If. You Want to Know 1.001 cipiggrTlJjbont the human system, Ud, saved, disease induced? Sow to ignorance and indiscretion, Jsuie tojuvS2^oine\’ure to all forms of disease, IHotc to'cur^r^rr’^ Old Eiie^, Rupture, rhimosia, etc., hinutto in Marriage and have prize babien, [and an Doctor’s Droll Jokcß, profusely illusTruuS Send ton cents for new Lnugh Cure Book calßl MEDICAL SENSE ANO NONSENSE.’ Unrray UlILPub. C®.. 129 E. 2Sth St., New York. < TEWISIWE! | pcwcziZD and mmzD. (PATENTED.) Tho ‘trenmrst and purest Lye VS made. Will make the BE:»T Perfumed Habd Soap in twenty JagUß minutes without boiling. It is the bast for disinfecting sinks, closets, drains, washing bottles, barrels, paints, etc. PENNA. SALT ^ANUF’G. CO.. Gen. Agts., Phila., Pa. IF YOU WISH A/~^ .. ii^ good REVOLVER L XT* purchase one of the oelebrated SMITH * WESSON arms. Tho finest email arms H ever manufactured and the WV first choice of all experts. gKwl Manufactured in calibres 32,385n4 44-100. Bln- ItagNM! ■tleordouble action, Safety Hammerkes and Target models. Constructed entirely of best qnal. By wrought steel, carefully inspected for workmanship and atock; they are unrivaled for fini>h, durability nnd nccuracy. Do not be deceived by cheap malleable cast-iron imitations which are often sold for the genuine article and are not onlv unreliable, Ibut dangerous. The SMITH & WESSON Revolvers are all stamped upon the barrels with firm's name, address and dates of patents and are guaranteed perfect in every detail. Insist upon having the genuine article, and if your dealer cannot supply you an order sent to address below will receive prompt and careful attention. Descriptive catalogue and prices furnished upon applicutlon. SMITH & WESSON, HF“Mention thi« paper. Springfield, Mass. ©CHICHESTER'S ENGLISH PENNYROYAL PILLS. Red Cross Diamond Brand. Tho only reliable pill for sale. Uafe sad euro. Led les. auk Dragnet for the Ula. moad Bread, in red niaulllc born, aul^ vilh blar ribbon. Takenaather. Send4c. (Ktiuup.) for psrUoelara and “Relief for Lsdles,” tn by mall. Pam, Parsr. Qdcheeler Chemical Ce., MxUmb Sa- FMllada. Pa. «I prescribe and folly enarse Big 4J as the only lecific for the certain cure f this disease. .H.INGRAHAM.M.D., Amsterdam, N. Y. We have sold Big G lor taction. D. R. DYCHE A CO., Chicago, 111. 1.00. Sold by Druggists. ’ C. N. U. No. 28-00 AAmKN WRITING TO ADVERTISERS, v v please say you saw the advertisement in this paper.