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The boy sighed. "Poor little Gay, he said, "hers is a hard lot. "Do you remember how the child came by her name? It is thirteen years this spring since a lady stopped at our door and asked to remain overnight, tiliie staid on day after day, growing weaivpr and weaker. It .did not take long to discover that she was insane. She called Che child Gay, and sometimes Gabrielle, which is Gay's true name. But she did not tell her surname, nor anything concerning hsrself. Late that summer she died. No one ever came to inquire afier her or the child." "Her mother was a crazy tramp, and •nothing more. No wonder George was betsjnd hand, when his wife adopted the ,chili of a tramp and brought her up a lady," said his uncle.

Mark .colored. "I cannot hear a word against'my imrther, sir," he said, "I shall protect iGay while I live, and she shall not be separated from me." "Then I wash my hands of you," exclaimed Mr. Heber angrily. "You can go your ovyn way, and get your own living." "Very well, sir," said Mark quietly "that is settled then."

In one week Mark had sold a pair of colts, whieh he had raised himself, for five hundred dollars, the household furniture for nearly as much more, and was on iliis way, with little Gay, to the fur-West, to seek their fortune.

The yontig travellers arrived at Leavenworth after# long and fatiguing jourt\ey.

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Mark Heber's Luck.

AX IXDIAN STORY.

Mark Heber returned home from his father's funeral, with the problem of his future pressing upon his thoughts, and demanding a prompt solution.

His home has been, from his earliest remembrance, upon a stony, worn-out farm of lifty acres, situated upon the Seneca Lake, in Western New York. Hi-i father had become so heavily involved in debt, that two weeks before his death the farm had been sold by foreclosure of mortgage.

And now what was Mark to do? He was a lad of nineteen, slight and boyish in frame, but with the strengh of a man in his sinewy arms. He had had the usual advantages of education afforded to farmer's sons.

He returned home from his father's grave to the small, .unpainted story and ii halt house, and after him came his father's only brother, a well-to-do farmer, who resided in the neighborhood.

This uncle, Mr. William Heber, was a man of sixty years, pompous and selfimportant. His soy! was of the smallest pattern, and he had never been known to do a generous deed, while he had done many mean ones. "Well, Mark," said his uncle, "I've sent my folks on home, so that I can have a good talk with you. Morgan tells me he wants the farm. He has held off two weeks while George was dying, but he wants to move in next week. What are you going to do?" "I don't known, uncle, I am trying to think. What can I do?" "I have thought the matter over," said Mr. Heber, "and have'thought upon a plan. I am willing to take you, Mark, and treat you as my own son. You sfiall have a home at my house, and a seat at my table. What do you say?" "You forget, uncle, that I have some one to provide for besides myself," said Mark. "Suppose I were to accept this oiler of yours, what will you do for Gay?" "The girl is no relation of yours, Mark."

his way to Nebraska.

Mark concluded to join him, and Mr. Whitman assisted hiov in purchasing a suitable outfit, and that same night Mark and Gay were snugly escoosed in their huge travelling wagon, outside of the city, ou the edge of the prairie, where Mr. Whitman, with his wife and seven children, had encamped. Six othef-families were with them—the seven wagons being "parked" in the form of a circlethat is, the pole of oiie wagon resting upon the rear of another—and the oxen, jnules, horses, cows, dogs and pigs being gathered into the circle thu3 protected.

Outside the circle of wagons a great lire was burning, and as Mark's wagon drove up, the conductor of the train, Mr. Laudford, came forward and welcomed the new-comers.

It seemed to Gay and to Mark that they had entered a new and wondrous world.

Both lay loug awake that night in their wagon, close up under the canvass roof, and they talked in whispers of their great future, and wondered what it had in store for them.

The next morning at daybreak the camp was astir. By sunrise, the train was on its way toward the north-west.

At night they halted beside a Bmall stream aud parked the wagons and had supper, and talked and sang songs and told stories like one great jbyouS family.

At daybreak, agaiu they were on the way. Iu the course of ten days, having travelled rapidly for ox teams, theyreached the Little Blue river, a branch 0/the Big Blue. The women built fires mid began the preparation of supper. The men proceeded to park the wagons. "The last traiu I took over this route was attacked by Indians just here," said Conductor Landford. "They were unusually bold, aud we had a tough fight— Good Heavens What is that

He beheld, by the last rays, of the sunset, a mounted baud of Indians, their weapons glittering iu the yellow h^ht, ihpir plumes nodding in the wind, as •they came on like a Whirlwind. ''Indians!" yelled the conductor, in a voice that made every woman's face turn white. "Pawnees or Sioux, I can't tell which. They seem to be on the war path. I can see their weapens. They joutnumber us, counting in our women. Call iu the children. We shall have to defend ourselves."

He blew a shrill blast on his bugle that rang out far and wide. They were sweeping down upon the train, with Whoops aud yfells, murder aud rapine in their very aspect,

Conductor Landford was skilled in warfare, and was a SGout of considerable note. 'There are twenty savages," he an

iiouuced. "Remember, boys, you are*4aring the remainder

fighting for our mothers and sisters. Shotv-'us wlrat stuffyou are made of." Then he shouted: "Now, men, tlie gun! Have out the gun They are in war paint, and mean mischief. When I give the word, fire

The Indians came nearer and nearer, advancing in a straight line. "Now, boys, srive them a hint that we are not fooling," said the guide grimly.

Mark Heber and his young comrades fired a volley. The next moment a shower of bullets came hurtling toward the defendersof

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Whitman did "give it to them," mowing down three mounted savages, horses and riders rolling over and over in horrible death agony.

The remaining savages again came to a halt, but only for an instant. With a terrific war-whoop, they came on again to the onslaught, firing as they came, and looking like incarnate demons. "Altogether!" cried the guide.

The other men aud all the boys fired, each with especial aim. Six mounted savagts tell before the deadly rain.

A panic immediately seized upon the survivors. Iu the mid-t of it, Whitman grimly touched oil -his field-piece anew.

This ended the conflict. The savages with horrible yells beat an instantaneous retreat, leaving their dead upon the field, and dragging away their wounded.

Amory had a bullet wound in his shoulder, and Arnold's eldest son had a flesh wound in his arm, but neither of these injuries was serious. "Are you safe, Gay?" demanded Mark, coming toward her. "Yes, but I'm almost smothered," answered Gay. "Have the savages surely gone, Mark?"

Gay cautiously crept forth while she was speaking. The remaining wagons disgorged their crouching occupants, women and children coming forth pale and trembling, but full ot'joyful gratitude at their escape from death, or worse than death. The camp took on its usual appearance even before the retreating savages were entirely lost to view in the far distance. That nighL they encamped upon the prairie, and met with no adventure. A guard was maintained as on the previous night, but no Indians were to be seen.

Every day for the week that followed the encampment on the Little Blue was full of incident, but all of the pleasant sort, nothing occurring to alarm the emigrants.

And at the end of the week, to their great joy and relief, they arrived at Fort Kearney.

The emigrants did not halt at the fort, but pressed ou to Kearney City, where they encamped just at nightfall.

Here Conductor Landford found another train, the-guide of which had been stabbed the night before by a notorious mli

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who had escaped arrest. The traiu was offered to Landford, to be united with his^own.

The assault that had been made upon the conductor of the previously arrived train was made a matter of discussion, and regret that his assailant had escaped was universal.

I know the fellow who dirked the conductor," said Landford "He is a perfect demon. .1 know that he has killed several men. I saw him at Denver last' year. He had just stabbed a miner from behind, aud robbed him of all his money and gold. He is called Blue Jack." "Blue Jack!" cried one or two boys.

What a name!" "They call him so because one side of his face is blue, as if bruised," said Landford, "Looks a"s if the blood had settled under the skju."

The new train was hound for Denver, as Landford had said. Tw° wagons belonged to meu who had no woman with them. There were five of these desperadoes, and only the smallness of their numbers as compared with the others induced Landford to allow them to travel under his guidance and the protection of his train.

A few introductions took place, and then the long train took up its line of march westward.

During the noon encampment, on the following day, Gay had finished her dinner, and a merry snat.ch of song was on her lips, when one of the desperadoes known as Burk came up to- her, and paused beside her, regarding her with an insolent stare. "Hallo, younker," he said gruflly, "I noticed you yesterday, and you are the prettiest young one I ever did see. Got no father, nor mother, eh Going west with yohr brother, eh? Give us a kiss, there's a doll!".

In an instant she leaped to her feet. Child as she was, she resented the insult that had been offered her with woman's offended pride and anger. "How dare you?" she cried. "Go away. If you touch me, I'll call my brother." "Ah, now, young one, your're fooling," he said iusolently. "You act older than took you for. I'll warrant no boy except your brother has ki sed them lips o' your'n aud I'm bound to have one—sb now!"

As quick as a flash, she drew from her pocket a pistol Mark had bought for her at Leavenworth, and whieh he had since taught her to use skillfully. She cocked the pistol, and its four small dark tubes were promptly presented to the eyes of Burk for inspection. He started back in unaffected horror and amazement. "The little vixen he muttered. "She aets like a highwayman instead of a shrinking girl. She beats all "f was only fooling," he said aloud. "I didu't mean nothing, young one. I'm off."

Aud he hastened to beat a retreat to his own proper quarters. Gay's light laugh rang after him mockingly.

Curse her!" muttered Burk. "Blue Jack would tame that wild-cat spirit of her'n, tind I wish he may do it, that's all. I'll malce 'em acquainted, blest if I don't!"

The train was resume its march. "Come up iuto the wagon, Mark," said the girl, coaxingly. "I have something to tell you."

Mark climbed up beside Gay, his boyish face full of tenderness and affection as he looked down upon his adopted lister "Well, what is it,little Gay he said, as she hesitated. "Have you noticed thatL mari Burk, who joined us with the' other train at Kearney Oi ty asked Gay. "I've seen him and noticed him," said Mark. "Mr. _Lahdford has it poor opinion of him. He's a confederate of Blue Jack, the outlaw. What have you to say about him, Gay?" "He Wanted to kiss me back at the halt," said Gay, composedly, "and as you were busy, I just pulled out my pistol aud scared him. He thought I meant to shoot him, aud went oft to the rear of the train."

Mark's boyish brows grew stern, and his eyes flashed. "The coward, and villain," he exclaimed. "I'll horsewhip him for that. How dared he?" "Don't get into trouble on my account, dear Mark J" exclaimed Gay, in alarm. "He's a bad man, aud he"might kill you. He didn't kiss me, and I have taught him to keep his distance, so that he won't trouble me again. Don't speak to him, Mark, please don't 1"

But Mark would not promise. About sunset Laudford beheld in the distauce a solitary horseman, who, upott looking afid observing the train, .wheeled his horse about, and rode rapidly toward it. As he approached it, he said you the 'conductor of this tram, sir? I am bearer of dispatches from Fort Kearney to Fort Sedgwick. Will you grant me the protection of yourtrain

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"Fallon, Lieutenant Fallon," was the replj', aud he offered to show his credentials.

Landford bade Lieutenant Fallon welcome, and offered him the freedom oft"he camp

Fallon ate supper with the Whitmans, and after conversing until a late hour, retired to the rear of the train to sleep. After all was still, he rolled over on the ground until became to the side of Burk. "Burk," he hissed.

Burk started, with a smoothered oath. "Who calls?" he growled. "Hush, you idiot!" hissed Fallon, between his teeih. "Have I fooled you and the boys as easily as I fooled the conductor of the train? Don't you know me? haven't got my card-case with me, but I'm Blue Jack, at your service! Ha, ha! The serpent has got into Eden!" "land the boys have looked for you to join us all day," said Burk. "But of course we didn't look for you in this disguise."

Upon the morning after the counterfeit Lieut. Fallon had joined the wagon train, the camp was astir as usual at day break. The train halted at noon on the river bank, opposite a lovely island. At sunset they again halted, and for the night.

In the courseof the evening Lieut. Fallon approached Gay, and said: "Miss Heber, I must say to you that you are startiugiy like a former friend of mine. It seems almost as if she stood before me as I first knew her. It is a strange, a startling coincidence. I could almost think—but no. Impossible! You are the sister of Mr. Heber, are: you not?"

Gay's pure fape Hushed. "Yes," she answered, with some hesitation.

The disguised Blue Jack turned yet whiter. He had marked that hesitation, and his wonder at it thrilled him with a sudden fear. "Yotfdo not look like your brother, Miss Heber?" he remarked. "I have been told so before," said Gay dryly. "And are you his own sister?" persisted Blue Jack, with agitation. "I do not know your motive for making such inquiries, Lieutenant," said Gay, alter a moment's thought. I do not therefore know how to reply to you. I should like to know the name of your friend whom I resemble, but for an answer to your inquiries I must refer you to my brother."

Gay Heber seized the first opportunity to inform her adopted brother of the particulars of her singular interview with the false Lieut. Fallon. "I told him to speak to you, Mark," she said, "but my heart has been on fire ever since. What if he should have known my mother?" "He looked like death when he first saw your face, Gay," said Mark thoughtfully. "It was as if he had seen a ghost."

Gay started, and exclaimed "From the moment I beheld the man I shrank from him. I had an instinctive fear and abhorrence of him. Ob, Mark, dear Mark, don't let him know any more about me than he knows now "I will not, Gay," said Mark soothingly. "If he is your father, he shall not know that you are his daughter."

The promise comforted Gay, who smiled faintly through the gloom that had fallen upon her.

As some young people came toward the Hebers, Mark arose abruptly, and went to look after his oxen.

Gay wasabout to joiu Mark, when the false Lieut. Fallon approached him, offering him a cigar. "Fine evening, JVIr. Heber," said the disguised glue Jack courteously. "YVhat! You don't smoke? Smoking is a vice. I wish I could break myself of it. Your sister is a lovely child, or girl, I should say. She must be fifteen years old. Is she not?" "She is but a child Lieutenant— only fourteen—yet she is more womanly than many girls of eighteen." "Only fourteen," said the pretended Lieutenant musingly. "I—Ihad a fancy tnat she was fifteen. I knew a child once—perhaps she's dead now—but if she were Jehe would be fifteen years of age, and the very picture of your sister. And, oddly enough, that child's name was the same as your sister's—Gabrielle'r'

Mark repressed a start, and turned away his paling face from the keen scrutiny of the scheming villain. "The child I alluded to," contirfued the false Lieutenant,"had black hair and brown eyes rather a singular combination but her mother, poor creature, had the same features, and had been a great beauty in her day. She was a New York belle, la belle Gabrielle! But she went insane, and wandered away with npr child aud was never head of more. "If you had seen the New York dailies of thirteen years ago^" resumed the false Lieutenant, you could not have failed to notice a striking advertisement offering a thousand dollars reward for information of the whereabouts of an insane woman and her child. The reward was afterward increased to five thousand dollars. Did you never' hear of the advertisement, Mr. Heber?" "Never," said Mark. "How should I have seen it?" "Ah, yes true. You were but a boy at the time. Yet if you lived near New York, you might have heard of the disappearance." f'l did not live near New York." "Why, the couductbr told me you cameirom York State," Said the false Lieutenant. "So I did, responded Mark "May I ask from what part?" inquired the villain. "Certainly," said Mark. "I come from the western part of the State. May I ask the name of the lady whose disappearance called forth the advertisement of which you speak?" "Her given name was GabrielIe

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the pretended officer evasively, "If I could get a trace of that insane woman and. her child, I would give a thousand dollars out of my own pocket. Think what a start in life that sum would give a young man like you

Mark shrank back, as from the touch of an embodied pestilence. "I can give you 110 assistance in your search, Lieutenant Fallon," he said coldly. "Permit me to ask if Miss Heber is your own sister, born of the same parents as yourself?" demanded the pretended officer abruptly. "I do not tolerate any intrusion iuto my private family affairs, Lieutenant Fallon," said Mark hautily. "My sister has already been annoyed by your questions in regard to her history, and I must request you to leave us alone." "I beg your pardon, Mr. Heber," said the villain, adding maliciously, "I see this is a sore subject with you. YOJJ have not said that Miss Heber is your own sister. I presume you cannot say so truthfully." "We will not discuss the matter, sir. Gay Heber is my sister, and while I live she shall not lack for a protector." "Ab, yes," said the pretended officer, using his favorite phrase of assent. "Brothers are not usually so devoted to sisters as you seem to be, Mr. Heber."

That evening Gay, whose curiosity bad been stimulated by what had taken place, to find out something more about her parentage, was examining some jewels which had been left by her mother, and some trinkets which she had possessed when a child. She had taken them from a box in the bottom of her trunk, and thought hereelf perfectly secure under the cover of the wagon, when She suddeuly detected the fals* Lieut. Fallon peering at her through a

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which h6 had cut in the^ canvas. AJ1 this she reported to Mark. On the following day Mark bad a violent altercation with the pretended Lieutenant.

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the uniform of the United States had come up, and had dashed into the very camp before their approach was noticed.

A loud bugle call from the head of the troops was the first token the emigrants received of the new arrival.

Iu a moment the combatants were loosed, and all eyes turned to the newcomers.

The disguised Lieut. Fallon looked and turned faint. He know what this visit meant, if no one else did. "Conductor," shouted the leaderof the troop, "we are here in search of Blue Jack,, the noted desperado, accused of the attempted murder of Lieutenant Fallon, of the United States army, whom he brutally attacked and flung into the Deep Canyon as dead. The Lieutenant is now at Fort Kearney, iu a critical condition, and we demand his would-be murderer!"

The emigrants had listened with breathless amazement to the announcement of the officer in charge of the small detaichment of troops. They were actually spell-bound. Not so the parson most interested iu the announcement—Blue Jack himself.

The desperado had comprehended the errand of the troops in the first moment of their appearance. After his first sensation of faintness and terror, he had recovered his coolnessnnd courage and was himself again.

At the very commencement of the officer's announcement, Blue Jack exchanged glances with the terrified aud cowering Burk. The lattef'poihted one trembling iinger over his shoulder to a spot at a little distance, where Blue Jack's horse stood grazing, saddled for use.

In an instant the chief desparado darted under the wagens toward the waiting horse. He reached him aud leaped upon his back.

And in the next moment that desperado rose gracefully in his stirrups at the distance of a few rods, and with the fierce defiant yell ,of a wild Indian, dashed his spurs into his horse's side, and was away like the wind.

The troops gave an answering yell of surprise and anger, and- the officer in command led the swift pursuit.

Blue Jack had the advantageof a.good start, and was splendidly mounted, his horse being a seasoned animal, boru and bred on the plains, and endowed with great life and spirit.

Blue Jack laughed aloud as the strong animal bore him onward as if he had been a feather's weight. He rose again "n his stirrups, and shouted back defiantly: "Come on. Take Blue Jack ifyou can."

The pursuing officer shouted to the outlaw to surreuder, but the only reply was a mocking laugh.

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During the confusion Burk escaped also. At nightfall they halted upon the south bank of,the Platte, and were at supper around their fires when the troops were seen to approach, weary and dispirited— without their prisoner. "The fellow has escaped us," said the officer. "You held on to the chase well, Lieutenant," said the conductor. "I can't bear to go back to the fort without him," was the quick reply. "There's excitement all through the fort. Poor Fallon was nearly murcjered, and was left for dead. He was flung over into Deep Canyon, and happened to lodge in a clump of bushes. There he came to himself an hour or more afterward, and, more dead than alive, he climbed up to the ground above, aud fell down in a dead faint. A party was immediately orgaugatlized, and sent in pursuit of»the outlaw."

The next day they encountered the party of soldiers that had been sent in pursuit of Blue Jack. They had found no trace of the desparado or his companion. "No use looking for Blue Jack," said the officer in charge of the party, addressing Landford. "There has been a party of .Sioux about this quarter for a few days past, and no doubt Blue Jack has fallen in with them. The party is hardly large enough to attack your train, and I understand they have gone up toward Dakotah. Blue Jack has an Indian wife somewhere up there."

Upon the second day after leaving Fort McPherson, the emigrants made their midday halt in a grove of cotton woods, upon banks of the south fork of the Platte, at its junction with a wide, tree-fringed river which descended from the northward, aud here they concluded to settle.

The site of the village was selected exactly at the junction of two rivers, upon a low bluff overlooking the two streams.

Then a public square w$s carefully laid with mathematical exactness. Then feach man's lot was assigned him.

Mark Heber's was next to Whitman's on the eastern side of the square, facing west, and his future garden ran back to the edge of the low bluff.

Mark Heber did a man's work, and from the first day of this bard toil Whitman ceased to class the youth among the boys.

In the course of a week, eight strong log-houses, each a story in height, and pierced with loop-holes, and each provided with with a single capacious chimneyywere finished, and fronted the little naked square.

Mark Heber's house was simply arranged, built upon the plan generally adopted by the settlers. There were but two rooms, one being entered through the other. The inner room was to be Gay's. The outer room was toTBeThe parlor, din-ing-room, kitchen, library, and Mark's bedroom. "The house is j'our province, Gay," said the youth, upon tbe morning after the house was finished. "I shall leave you to furnish it and transform it into a home while

work upon the stockade.

If you need my help when tlje stockade aiid biock-house are finished, I will turn myself into hotiee-cirpehter." "I shan't need you, sir," said (jfay saucily. "You attend to tne farm, and leave the house to me." u"

The shelter provided, the eight houses were left entirely to.the management of the women, the men working upon the stockade, which was constructed upon strict military principles, a^d was a model of worth and excellence.

It required two weeks and the labor of of sixteen men to complete this work. Whitman and his lamily had been living in their house for a week. All the families had moved into their homes save tbe Hebers, but Gay* with a pretty tyranny had not allowed Mark to cross the threshold of his house since he had finished it.

Now, when Mark unyoked his oxen, turning them loose in his own yard, and drew his wagon under A great cottonwood :in bis back garden, Gay called to him with a bright smile, saying that he might enter the house with her.

He came pleased and smiling, but paused npon the threshold in mute amazement.

Was this the room with four rough log walls which he had given into her hands?

Was this sunny little home a log house on the plains?

It seemed incredible,,*^ 2? For little clever-witted Gay, witn ner delicate^ skillful fingers, had fashioned a lovely home oat of her barren materials, such ad one as would delight the «ye

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fired a shot at the fugitive, but the bullet missed its mark, and Blue Jack, bending low to his horse's neck, and digging the spurs into the animal's sides, swept on aud away with the rush of a tornado.

And after him swept the pursuers. The emigrants watched the pursuit with breathless interest until the 'foremost figure upon the powerful Indian steed had passed beyond their line of vision.

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worked, tinder her directions. "It's tbe prettiest room I ever saw," cried Mark, with enthusiasm. "There isn't a house in town like it.^'Won't tbe people open their eyes? It's just lovely!" cried Mark delighted. "You are a regular home fairy, Gay. You were meant for the frontier, and you are the fairest flower on all the plaius! My precious little sister?"

He drew her to him and kissed her teuderly. But Gay, most unaccountably, broke from him,blushing like arose. "I'll call Whitman in to see the house," exclaimed Mark, not noticing Gay's confusion. "We shall set up for the aristocrats of the town."

He dashed out in boyish exuberauce aud called in the entire population of the village.

They all came in, and there was a general request that Gay should christen the settlement.

Gay's eyes brightened, even while she shrank from the honor thus put upon her. "I can't," she said. "Mr. Whitman is the oldest of us all, and is our Mayor. Let him name the village." "Then I'll call it Heber, in honor of our little Gay," cried Mr. Whitman. "What do you all say, my friends "Heber it is?" cried a dozen voices, in acclaim.

At that moment a boy who had been playing upon the platform inside the stockade came in, gasping the words "Indians The above we publish as a specimen chapter but the continuation of this story will be found in the New York Ledger. Ask for the number dated March 30, which can be had at any news office or book-'store. If you are not within reach of a .news office, you can have the Ledger mailed to you tor one year by sendiug three dollars to Robert Bonner, publisher, New York.

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Greenbacks are Good,

BUT,

Roback's are Better!

SOBACK'S

ROBACK'S

STOMACH STOMACH STOMACH

BITTERS

S CURES.....FT S S... DYSPEPSIA... S S..SICK HEADACH..R S.

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ROBAGK'S STOMACH BITTERS.

Sold everywhere and used by everybody.

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DR. ROBACK'S STOMACH BITTERS

Should be used by convalescents to strengthen the prostration which always follows acute disease.

Try these medicines, and you will never regret it. Ask youi* neighbors who have used them, and they will say they are GOOD MEDICINES, and you should try them bfefore going for a Physician.

U. S. PROP. MED. CO„

Sole Proprietor,

Nos. 56 & 58 East Third Street,

CINCINNATI, OHIO.

FOR SALE BY

Druggists Evorywhore.

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K-34As the ftfticres advertised underttie L«ad of our "Clearance Sales" have been meetly sold oifVw^wiH offertfie choice of oar Btock at

ER O W A E S

Until we receive the bulk ot our Spring purchase1.

This sale will probably be as attractive as our "Clearance Sales," siqqeit embraces all our

BLACK SILKS, IRISH POPLINS,

.BRIGHT PLAIDS, forichildren^ Wear,

Table Linens, Napkins, Marseilles Bed Spreads, Cassimeres, Light

ings, Hosiery, Ac., &c.

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The Blood Pills

Are the most active a:nd thorough Pills that haVe ever been introduced. They act

rectly upon the Liver, excitiiig that organ to such an extent as that the system does not relapse intents former condition, which is too apt to be the case with simply a purgative pill. They are really a

Blood and Liyer Pill,

And in conjunction with the

BLOOD PURIFIER,

Will cure all the aioremen tioned diseases, and themselves will relieve and cure

Headache, Costiveness, Colic, Cholera Morbus, Indigestion, Pain in the Bowels, Dizziness, etc., etc.

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MEDICAL.

fcsaAT SYiEDIGAL DISCOVERY.

... 31 ItifioXS Bear Testimony to the Wonderful Curative Effects of II£. WALKER'S -CALIFORNIA

VINEGAR BITTERS

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Walkcb Proprietor. R- H. MCDONALD ft Co.. Droggitu aud Gen. Ag'U, StQ Francisco, Cal., and and 31 Commerce St,N.V.

Tinegnr Bitters are not a vile Fnncjr TtrlnU Made of Poor Ram, Whisky, Proof Spirits aud Keluse Liquors doctored, spiced and sweetened to please the taste, called "Tonics," "Appetizers," "Restorers,'* &c., that lead the tippler on to drunkenness and ruin, but area true Medicine, made from the Native Roots an a Herb^of California, freefroin all Alcoholic Stimulants. They are the GREAT UL««D PURIFIER and A LIF£ «IV1»G PRINCIPLE,a perfect Renovator aud Invigorator ot the System, carrying off all poisonous matter and restoring the blood to a healthy condition. No person can take these Bitters according directions and remain long unwell, provided their bones are not destroyed by mineral poison or other means, and the vital organs wasted beyoiui the point of repair.

They, area gentle Purgative as well an a Tonic, possessing also, the peculiar merit of acting as a powerful agent in relieving (Congestion or inflammation of the Liver, and all ihe Visceral Organs.

FOR FEMALE COMPLAINTS, whetaer in young or old,married or single, sltthedawu of womanhood or at the turn cf life, these Tonio Bittejs have no eqnal.

For Inflammatory and Chronic-Rlieu-matiHin and Gout, Dyspepsia or Icidigrcstlon, Billions, Remittent and Intermittent Fevers, Disea^esof the Blood, Liver, Kidneys and Bladder, these Bitters have been most successful. Snch Diseases aro caused bj Vitiated Blood, which is generally produced uy derangement of the Digestive

"dyspepsia DR INDIGESTION Headache, Pain in the Shoulders, C,uShs Tightness of tbe Chest, Dizziness, Sour Errcta£V?'ls

Stomach, Bad taste in the Mouth, o"!'0"8

tacks, Palpitation of the Heart, IiiflaiT,at,

tbe Lungs, Pain in the region ot the Kiu and a hundred other painful symptoms, are offsprings of Dyspepsia.

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They invigorate the Stomach and stimulate the torpid liver and bowels, which render them of unequalled efficacy in cleansing the blood of all impurities, and imparting new life and vigor to the whole system.

FOR SKIN DISEASES, Eruptions, Tetter, Salt Rheum, Blotches, Spots, Pimples, Pustules, Boils, Carbuncles, Ring Worms, Scald Head, Sore Eyes. Erysiplas,Itch, Scurfs, Discolorations of the Skin, Humors and Diseases of the Skin, of whatever name or nature, are literally dug up and carried out. of the system in ashorttirne by the use of these Bitters. One bottle in such cases will convince the most incredulous of the curative effect

Cleanse the Vitiated blood whenever you find' its impurities bursting through theskin in Pimples, Eruptions or Sores, cleanse it when you find it oustructed and sluggish in the veins: cleanse it when it is foul, andyour feelings will tell you when. Keep the blood pure and the health of thesystem will follow.

PIN, TAPE, and other WORMS, lurking in thesystem of so many thousands, are effectually destroyed and removed. For fulldtieotions, read carefully the circular around each bottlejprinted in four languages—English, German, French and Spanish.

THESE

J. WALKER, Proprietor.

B. H. McDONALD & CO., Druggists and Gen. Agents, San Francisco, Cal., and 32 and 34 Commerce Street, New York. *a_SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS & DEALERS.

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DR ALBURGER'S

CELEBRATED

E.R MAN

HERB STOMACH BITTERS

Tlic Grent Blood Fnriflernnd

Anti-Dyspeptic Tonic

celebrated and well-known Bitters are composed of roots and herbs, of *nost innocent yet specific virtues, and are particularly recommended for restoring weak constitutions and increasing the appetite. cure for

They area certain

Liver Complaint, Dyspepsia, Jaundice, Chrom or Nervous Debility, Chronic Diarrhoea, Diseases of the kidneys, Costiveness, Pain the Head, Vertigo, Hermorrhoids

jTeitiale

"Weakness, Loss of Appe

tite, Intermittent and Remittent Fevers, Flatulence Constipation, Inwarr

Piles, Fullness of •Blood in the Head,

Acidity of the

Stomach, N a us a, Heartburn, Disgust of Food, Fullness or weight in ,• the Stomach,Sour ErucattionS,

Sinking or Fluttering at the Pit: of the Stomach, Hurried or Difficult Breathing, Fluttering,of the Heart Dullness of the Vision, Dots or Webs Before th«o

Sight, Dull Pain in the Head, Yeilowness of the Skin, Pain the Side, Back, Chest,

&c.,

&c.. Sudden

Flushes of Heat, Burning in the Flesh, Constant Imagining of Evil and

Great Depression of Spirits.

All of wb^h are Indications of Liver Complain Dyspepsia, or.dlseases of the. di^est'*'e organs, combined with an impure blood. These bitters are not a rum drink, as most bitters are, butare put before the public for their medicinal proproperties, and cannot be equalled by any other preparation.

Prepared only at

Dr. Alburger's Laboratory, Philadelphia, proprietor of the-celebrated Worm Sirup, Infant Carminative and Pulmonfc Sirup. -^principal office, northeast corner of THIRD andBROWN Streets, Philadelphia.

For sale by Johnson, Holloway & COWden, 602 Arch Street, Philadelphia, and by Druggists and Dealers inmedicines, 211dly

HAIB VIGOE.

AirlsB's,

HAIR YIG01l,

Fof tlie Renovkfion of the Hair! ^,'riie Great Desideratum of tlie Age! A dressing #hfch is at once agreeable, healthy, and effeCtiial

ened,

for

preserving the

hair. Faded or gray hair ie soon restored to its original color and the gloss ana freshness of youth. Thin hair is thick*

falling hair checked, and baldness often, though not always', cured by its use! Nothing can restore the hair where the follicles are destroyed, or the glands ftrophied or decayed. But such as remain can be saved for usefulness by this application. Instead of fouling the hair with a pasty sediment, it will keep it clean and vigorous. Its occasional use will prevent the hair from falling oft and consequently prevent baldness. Free from those deleterious substances which make some preparations dangerous and injurious to the hair, the Vigor can only benefit but not harm it. If wanted a a

HAIR dressing,

nothing else can be found so desirable. 'Containing neither oil nor dye, it does not soil white cambric, lasts longer on the hair, giving^it a iSbil"glossy lustre and a grateful perfume.

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PREPARED BY

DR. J. C. ITER

Practical aud Analytical Chemists, K-w vm*LOWELL, MASS.

PRICE

$1.00