FOR THE FARM AND HOME.
A Thin tow.
If a gow is fed too much meal she
"will be poor and thin, and the skin may
be irritated and congested. Too much
food has a similar effect, or is worse
than too little, a* it produces indiges
tion, which disorders the blood and
causes a feverish condition of the sys
tem. As it is only the food that is
digested healthfully that makes llesh,
fat and milk, these will not be made
if a larger quantity be given than can
be digested. A cow that is suffer
ing from indigestion may bo treated as
follows: Give a pint, of linseed-oil, and
repeat it the second day after: then
feed some bran slop or some cut feed
with bran and a little meal in it, but
in moderate quantity, until her appear
ance improves.
Potato Experiment*.
\ correspondent in the Cultivator
and Country Gentleman gives the re
sult of some experiments in growing
potatoes: Some years ago I selected
some healthy potatoes that had no
sign of running out, and made a selec
tion of the largest and smallest tirm
tubers in each lot. I planted the same
number of hills of each kind side by
side; gave the same treatment in even
particular, and in the fall 1 weighed
the product. There was one pound
difference in favor of the large cut
potatoes. I then selected the largest
from the largest and the smallest from
the smallest, and planted the next sea
son the same number of hills side In
side, with the same treatment. In the
fall the weight of product was one and
one-half pounds in favor of small
tubers. I continued the experiment
for five years, selecting the largest
from the largest and the smallest from
the smallest. Sometimes one yielded
the best, sometimes the other; but the
variation never reached two pounds.
At the end of the five years' experi
ment there was one-half pound in favor
of the small tubers. The experiment
comprised ten hills of each.
Medium Hog*.
It is never the oldest and largest
hogs that are the most desirable for
either the packer or the consumer.
There is always double risk in curing
the hams and shoulders from very
large hogs over those taken from hogs
of common, medium size; then if the
hams of very large hogs come out well
cured, there is hardly one consumer in
a thousand but what would rather
have hams out of hogs weighing about
250 pounds, even at a strong advance
in price, than to have the mammoth
sized hams. There is no doubt but
what any fanner can make more clear
money as a rule, out of pigs that come
in the month of March or April, than
can be m;ide out of pigs that come in
any other part of the year. The early
spring pigs will be ready to graze on
clover about as soon in the season as it
will be ready for grazing, and they
will want little else but this kind of
feed until new com will be ready to
feed in September. They should in all
cases be fattened on corn and made
ready for market by Christmas, or about
nine months of age. If the right
breeds are kept, hogs of this age can
be made to weigh 275 to 300 pounds,
making in all respects as good pork as
could be required for consumers' use in
any market; or by feeding a moderate
amount of corn and oatme.'d through
August and September, they can be
sold in October, and will then make
first-rate bacon hogs, and it is never a
possible thing to produce good pork any
cheaper or as cheap as it can be done
in this way, as the general weather
conditions through all the life of such
hogs is in the highest degree favorable
for the growth and thrift of these ani
mals.—Drovers' Journal.
Composting Manure.
One of the important questions
which ever)- farmer has to decide is the
best method of composting manure.
Farmers do not agree on this subject ;
while some hold that it is best to apply
manure in its green state and compost
it with the soil, others believe it best
to compost it in the yard by mixing
with it an equal quantity of muck or
loam. Advocates of the last method
c.aim that the manure is thus decom
posed and brought into plant food that
is immediately available. The advo
cates of composting directly with the
soil claim that it saves a large amount
-of labor of hauling in material to com
post with, the pitching of it all over,
aha the carting out and spreading
twice the quantity; and they also claim
that during the process of deconiposi.
tion in a compost heap, under ordinary
conditions, a portion of the fertilizing
elements is lost; while if applied direct
ly to the soil, the process of decompo
sition inproves the condition of the
soil and prepares its plant growth much
better than if applied after decomposi
tion has taken place.
While it is probably best for most
crops to apply the manure in the green
state there are some crops that need
forcing with manure already well de.
composed. For example, strawberries
that have been set one year sometimes
require a fertilizer that will act at
once. Grass land, if manured between
the first and second crop, should have
well decomposed manure.
The farmer, in composting his
manure, should never forget that all cf
the muck, loam or sand which he
mixed with his manure above that
which is necessary to absorb the liquids
and gasses is a waste of labor, and only
makes his manure heap a decept c
which his crops will surely find our.
While it is important that every farm
er should always have at hand sufficient
absorbents to prevent the loss of the
liquids, but few farmers work to the
best advantage when they haul into
the barn yard as many loads of muck,
loam or sand as they have < manure.
The large additional cost of removing
twice or three times such large quanti
ties of materials but little better, if as
good, as the soil upon which it is spread,
never conies back in the increase of
crops.— P/ouyhman.
llOHfteltoltl Hint*.
Fish may be scaled much easier In
first dipping them in scalding water
for a minute.
Fresh meat, beginning to sour, wi!'
sweeten if placed out of doors in the
cool air overnight,
Milk which has changed may be
sweetened or rendered fit for use again
I by stirring in a little soda.
Tie a piece of cloth on the end of a
stick, wet it with vinegar, and clean
the mica of stove doors, even while the
stove is hot.
Five minu'es* soaking in water and
ammonia will clean the dirtiest frying
pan st> that it will only need rinsing
and wiping to be ready for use.
If the inside of your tea pot or coffee
pot is black from long use, till it with
hard water, throw in a piece of hard
i soap, set on the stove and let it boil
! from half an hour to an hour. It will
clean it as bright as a new dollar and
: cost no work.
The Field of Glory.
Clambering over the rude bank of
logs and earth that formed the defen
sive line ot our antagonists, I found
myself at last on the well-remembered
: ground. But what a sight met my
j eye! In the bright moonlight lay
! nearly 300 bodies of my comra les.
I their picturesque zouave uniforms
now blackened by contact with corrup
tion. In rows and in groups, just as
they had fallen on that fatal day, these
unburied corpses bad become winl
and sun-dried skeletons. The faces
that were upturned to the silvery rays
of the moon had lost all semblance to
humanity and were now simply hide
ous masks, the eyeless sockets of
which seemed to mock me as 1 stood
among them. But 1 was not done, for
at my feet writhed countless swarms
of the repulsive Virginia tumble-bug,
all struggling for a share in the awLil
banquet the god of war h id provided
for them. Horror stricken and heart
sick I gazed over the field and along
the line we had held, seeing bodies in
every direction and in every possible
attitude. Here one poor fellow had
crawled to the foot of a tree and died
as he sat. The fez was still on his
head, the gibbering .skull beneath it
seeming to laugh at me, as the jaws
had relaxed and fallen apart. On the
sleeves were the chevrons of a ser
geant, Beyond were the bodies of five
or six men, lying one over the other;
but now they seemed like a design on
a carpet, having becomed flattened to
one level. Near these men was the
body of a man lying apart from his
fellows. Falling on his back, the dead
man had flung his arms wide apart,
and one leg was drawn up as if ir.
agony. Now the hands were bare of
flesh and peeped hideously out of the
sleeves, while the elevated knee had
become shrunken, a wide rent in the
cloth permitting the skin covered bone
to protrude. Everywhere about me
these ghastly spectres met my gaze.
Bullet and t<7ielf. '
The Cashier Ahead.
A new bank which had heen estab
lished in a town in Indiana had
engaged the services of a watchman
who came well recommended, but who
did not seem over-ex per ieneed. The
president therefore sent for him to post
him lip a bit, and began:
"James, this is your first job of this
kind, isn't it?"
"Yes, sir?"
"Your first duty must be to exercise
vigilance."
"Yes, sir."
"Be careful how strangers approach
you."
"I will, sir."
"No stranger must be permitted to
enter the bank at night uiiuer any pre
text whatever."
"No, sir."
"And our cashier—he is a good man,
honest, reliable and thoroughly trust
worthy, but it will be your duty re
keep an eye on him."
"But it will be hard to watch two
men and the bank at the same time,
sir."
"Two men—how ?"
"Why, sir, it was only yesterday that
the cashier called me in for a talk,
and he said you were the squarcst man
in Indiana, but that it would be just
as well to keep both eyes on you, and
let tlie directors know if you hung
around after hours.— Wall street,
News.
, mmurmma
I
The weeds found on farms come
largely from the grass seeds, with
which weed seeds are mixed. The mi-'
croscope not only reveals to the eye the
worthless seeds of the grasses, but by
careful use it detects the weed seeds
Bad seeds are a source of great injury
to the farmers, and the subject should
not be neglected. i
THE NK\N
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Archbishop Tascherean has informed the
faculty of the Montreal Medical School that
they must sever their connection with Vic
toria College. A mandate has also boon
received by the Superior of the Hotel Dieu
, Hospital from his Grace, directing that med
ical students from protectant colleges bo
not admitted.
A disastrous lire occurred at Greeley, Col.
N. W. Hall's hardware and furniture, Jack
son's dry goods store, the Union Hank build
ing and the Masonic and Odd-Fellows' halls
were destroyed. The loss is estimated at
$150,000.
A bill has been introduced in the Senate
> t New York and immediately passed to a
third reading, to prevent any attempt to per
sonate or represent Jesus Christ, the Saviour,
by any show, play or dramatic representa
tion.
l'apers were filed at Albany, N. Y., organi
zing the Globe Telephone Company, with a
capital of $10,000,000, to do a telephone busi
noss throughout the United States. The
purpose is to use instruments that will talk
over long distances.
I wenty-nino business firms burned out in
Kcntland, Ind. The loss will reach $100,00(1,
about one-half of which was covered by in
surance.
I'eter Cooper died at New Y'ork in his 93rd
year. He was known the country over, as a
philanthropist- Hb life was devoted to in
dustry and morality.
Spragne has been defeated in Rhode
Island for Governor by 2,500 votes.
Ihe libel suit of Prof. Mac Lean, of tho
medical department of the Michigan Slate
I Diversity, against James E. Scripps, editor
and principal proprietor of the Detroit Been
ll.<J .Wics , after a two week's tri;il has been
concluded with a verdict of ull points in
favor of plaintiff, and awarding $20,000
damages.
A prairie fire is devastating tho country
north of Lincoln, Nebraska. Mrs. Dalton,
a farmer's wife, was suffocated while light
ing the lire. Barns, houses, granaries and
haystacks are being destroyed. It is esti
m ited that fifty square miles of territory
have been burned over, and the fire is still
raging.
The Buckle manufacturing honseof Willis!
ton Knight & Co , has made an assignment
in consequence of one of the partners using
$75,000 of the funds and running off tc
Euroj>e.
At a meeting of Irishmen in New York
Mr. Paraell's peace policy was repudiated,
and dynamite was dealt;ted to bo the only
policy of the future.
Middlo and Southern News
A severe wind, rain and hail storm pre
vailed in Central and Southwestern Arkansas
doing considerable damage. Along the line
or the Hot Springs Railroad the force of the
wind lifted a passenger coach from the track
and sent it down an embankment. Several
persons were bruised. Two buildings were
blown down at Alexander Station, on the
Iron Mountain Railroad. The tornado wa*
especially disastrous at Mabelvale, ten mile?
south of Little Rock, on the Iron Mountain
Railroad. A dozen residences and as man*
stables were blown down.
A boiler attached to an engine of 75-horse
power exploded in the factory of Geo. Bishoj
at Newberue. N. C. The engineer and the
fireman were killed. The house of Isaiah
Wood, one hundred yards distant, was des
troyed, and Mrs. Wood was, it is believed,
fatally injured. Half of the factory was de
molished, and all the houses iu the vicinity
were more or less damaged.
It is stated that the bonds of the ship canal,
byway of the Sassafras route, from the
Chesapeake bay to the Delaware river, have
been placed in France by Mr. Henry B.
'libbits, of New York, the president of the
company, and that the money has been raised
for the canal which is to cost $*.050,000-
The canal is to be completed in four yeitrs.
By a fire at Shelb\ville, Tenn., tho house
of J. P. Ingle, John Hanson's grocery, tlu
building of the Western Union Telegraph
Company, CLiiborn's barber shop, the house
of Sam Taylor (colored), the house of T. W
Buchan, me drug store ofT. J. Roane A Co..
and the Masonic Hall were burned; lossesti
mated at $lOO, OX); insurance about $50,000.
The Governor of Pennsylvania has issued
a proclamation declaring the charters of
corporation and companies which li ivt
failed to make a return to ths auditor-gene
ral within three years, as the law directs,
forfeited. The list will include 775 corpora
tions of such character as to cause general
surprise to the public.
George F. Kyle, 14 years of age, was mar
ried to Lizzie May Hollingshead, 13 years ol
age. The bride is an orphan and looktd like
a little girl arrayed for her first party, and
the groom hardly seemed to have passed the
spanking age.
Col. V. K. Stevenson, a Tennesseean by
birth, who has become a millionaire in New
York by lucky investments in stocks and reaj
estate, has determined to build several large
iron furnaces in Tennessee, in whose future
prosperity lit- has great faith.
The bill to prevent railroad companies
from giving free passes to any one except
officers and employers has passed the Penn-.
sylvunia House of Representatives. It makes
the granting of passes a misdemeanor, pun
ishable by fine and impris onment.
A decree has been published at Havana
ordering an examinatioa by tho board of
health of all American lard packed in kegs
or other wooden packages.
By the explosion of gas in a sewer at Balti
more. Md., the sewer was destroyed, win
dows demolished, and two persons lost their
lives.
The order of the Oriole, of Baltimore
1 f
have decided on September 11, 12 and 13 for
their annual pageant.
The Endo Hotel, a three-story brick build
ing, at Greenville, the county seat of Hunt
county, Texas, was blown down, or fell down,
and the ruins were then destroyed by fire,
with an appalling loss of life. There were
nearly fifty guests in the house, most of
whom were asleep when the crash occurred,
and of this number thirteen were buried be 1
neath the ruins, and then to suffer the terri
ble tortues of cri mation.
Over eight inches of rain fell at New Or
leans in sixteen hours on April 7th. The
Mississippi river overflowed its banks on the
Algiers front, causing considerable damage?
to property. Other suburban towns were
overflowed. The Red river is reported to be
"booming," and an overflow is feared.
A Miss Duncan, niece of W. B. Duncan, a
former member of the banking house of
Duncan, Sherman & Co , of New York, died
in Baltimore, it is supposed, from an over
dose of chlorate. Her * oath has created a
sensation among the higher circles of which
she was a member.
A fire at West Minister, Md., has burned
j out a large part of the town. Assistance from
Baltimore was asked for, and two chemical
and one engine and two trucks were dis
patched. Fire Inspector Holloway and Chief
j Heiskill accompanied the apparatus.
State Auditor Allen Ims informed the at
torney-general that he would no longer pay
the salaries of the judges of the Corporation
Courts of Richmond, Petersburg, Norfolk,
Lynchburg, Ac. The cities will have to pay
these otllcials.
The Norfolk Virginian estimates that there
is coal enough in the mines recently opened
in Pocahontas county, West Virginia, to
supply the demands of the North for 2K)
years to conio.
'1 he fire at Westminster, Md., destroyed
eighteen houses, caused the deuth of two
men and twenty-live horses, uud a loss of
$73,000. i'be loss on the Luthorian church
and the Rector's library amounts to $15,000.
The total insurance is estimated at $30,000.
The Pennsylvania House of Representa
tives yesterday passed a bill abolishing the
contract system in prisons and reformatory
institutions.
Susquehanna shad aro appearing in the
Raltimore ami Philadelphia markets.
The Louisiana Supreme Court has over
ruled the order of the lower court and re
fused a mandamus requiring the city of New
Orleans to levy a tax of $650,000 to pay tlu
interest on the consolidated bonds.
A police census of Richmond, Va., which
has just been completed, shows the i>opnla
tion to be 70,684. The United States censur
of 1880 gave the population as 63,000.
Nashville, Tennessee, is scourged with
small-pox. Thirteen new cases woro reported
on Saturday, and fifty patients are in tlu
pest-house. One school containing fit'O
pupils has been closed for two weeks.
C. C. Fulton, proprietor of the Dailj
American , of Baltimore, Md., has conveyed
his property in trust, to Felix Angus, the
manager of that paper
The Baltimore sub treasury has sixty-five
tons of silver in the vaults and 1,970,000 one
cent pieces. The public demand for tbe
latter has declined greatly since the five-cent
car fare took effect.
Ex-President Hayes positively refuses to
nllow his name to go before the Republican
convention of Ohio as a candidate for Gov
ernor. •
Foreign News.
LONDON, April 4. —The National The at re at
Berlin has been burned out. No lives were
lost.
Michael Davitt, from his prison, has
written a vigorous letter to the Young Ireland
Society of Glasgow, in which he says the
dynamite policy can only have the effect of
exasperating the English democracy. He
declares that it would be far better to work
and wait for another twenty years than to
play into the hands of Ireland a enemies by
giving rein todispair and revenge.
LONDON, April 5. —There is great excite
ment in Loudon over the discovery of a
secret dynamite factory in Birmingham and
the arrest of the proprietor, who is said to
be an Irish American. Other arresta have
also been made in London of men supposed
to be in the league in the manufacture of
explosives for the work of destruction in
England.
A mine has been discovered in Moscow
connecting with the Kremlin, where the
coronation of the Czar is to tAke place.
l'he prefect of police in Copenhagen has
ordered the socialist congress in session
there to disband and the foreign members
to leave the city.
The chief of police in St. Petersburg and
others have been decorated by the Czar for
their attentions to the Jmuuette survivors.
LONDON, April o.—The four men arrested
in London on suspicion of being concerned
in plots to blow up goverment buildings,
were arraigned in Bow-Street Court yester
day, and remanded. Their examination re
vealed some important nutters. 170 ponnds
of nitro-glycerino has been found in White
head's factory, in Birmingham.
At Ottawa, Canada, while Sergt. Hughes
and police officer Codd were in the hallway
of the eastern departmental building, at
Ottawa, Ont., a bottle containing some ex
plosive was thrown from above and buret
with tremendous force. The men saw the
bottle coming and succeeded in getting into
shelter.
The German government is determined in
it* objections to American pork.
Famine is imminent in Hungary.
LONDON, Aprd B.—lt the bill to amend the
law in regard to explosives, which Sir Wil
liam Haroourt will introduce in the House of
Commons to-day, should not prove retro
spective, many members will support an
amendment to the bill making it retrospec
tive in its provisions.
At a banquet by the Corporation of Civil
Engineers, at Kensington, Saturday evening,
Minister Lowell made a speech, in the course
of which he said that no American believes
that assassination is war, or that dynamite
is the raw material of policy.
Arrangements for the trial of the alleged
Phoenix Park murderers have been made,
Joe Brady will be tried first.
One hundred and forty-five houses have
been destroyed by fire at Vallorbes, Switzer
land.
The Brussels police have discovered proofs
of a plot against tne Czar.
THB MARKETS.
BALTIMORE.
FLOUR—City Mills extra.. $1 00 (at 75
WHEAT Southern Fultz... 1 14 Oi 17
CORN —Southern white 04 @ 66
Do yellow 6) (a" fit
RYE —Good FIN (ft 70
OATS —Maryland 50 fit 53
COTTON—Middling 9 (it 10'.;
Good ordinary
HAY—Md. and Pa. Timot'y 17 00 (it 19 00
STRAW—Wheat 8 (X) (it 10 00
BUTTER—Western prime.. 19 (n 21
West Virginia 15 (S 17
CHEESE —New York State
choice 15
Western prime 1.3 (it 14
EGGS 17 (>t is
CATTLE 5 00 (ft fi 12
SWINV. 9 (it 11
SHEEP AND LAMBS A\((t 1%
TOBACCO T/EAP- Inferior. 180 O 200
Good common .3 IX) (ft 4 50
Middling fi 00 (ft 8 00
Good to tine red 8 50 (it 10 00
Fancy 1000 (J|> 14 00
NEW YORK.
COTTON —Middling upland 10 @lO%
FLOUR —Southern com. to
fair extra 4 10 @5 10
WHEAT—No. 1 white 1 23 @1 24
RYE—State 73 @ 74
CORN —Southern Y'ellow.... 68 @ fiS%
OATS—Whitfe State 81 <s> 86
BUTTER—State 20 @ 24
CHEESE—State 14 (it 16
EGGS 20 @ 28
P ICM DJ'j? IA.
FLOUR —Penna. fancy 5 12 @6 18
WHEAT—Pa. and Southern
red 1 17 @1 20
RYE —Pennsylvania 68 @ 69
CORN —Southern yellow 63 @ 64
OATS 7)2 @ 63
BUTTER—State 25 @ 27
EGGS-State 18 @ 19
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TTTK STORY OK A DREAM.
Get money honestly if you can, but g< j l
money," was a foolish father's ndvice H
his son. Get money, if you can honestly,
makes but a slight alteration in the order
of the words, but varies the ie itiment con
siderably. There is no harm in making
money. It answereth all thing*. Urea
rightly it is a power for (rood, and there is
money enough in the world to form a lever
by which the mas-* of humanity could be lift
ed, ton certain extent, ontof its depths of
soirow and despair. Money we must have
for money makes the mine go. Some can
make money who have no faculty for saving.
Would yon save yon must know how to deny
those who would borrow and never repay, as
well as tho*c who beg simply because they are
too lazy to wo; k. There are men who never
want to see you except to ask the favor of a
loan. 1 hey will ask for just one word with
you, and that one word is sure to he money.
An impecmiious fellow met a rich acquaint
ance, and not liking to ask di;e tly for a
loan, said, "Friend Smith, if you had ten
dollars in your nocket, and 1 wis to ak you
for the loan of live, how many would rem an
in your pocket?" "Ten dollars, to bo sure,"
replied the rich man, without a moment's
hesitation. Ho had gumption, and knew too
much to part with his money hy any such
rule of subtraction.
Oil, I see, said the impecunious man thus
rebutted, lie was able to owe. lie was
ore of the Mieawber sort—always waiting
for something to turn up. How like some
le>i le who are sick. They think to get well
by 1 tting disease take care of itself. Hut
diss isos do not heal themselves, and too late
their victims full often find this out to their
sorrow as death seizes upon them. Had they
been wise in time tiny might have added
many yea sto their lease of life. The cure
was nigh them, as it is nigh to rdl who read
ihis medley. '1 hese paragraphs tell the
story, as a pa'ient perusal will prove. Those
wiio have keen insight and can read between
the hue i may ;o'\o tlio conundrum the soon
er for it, bat upon all, light will dawn ere
the y read the final word of our st >ry.
Light will dawn, we s: id. an i so it will,
light of hope and he p. Light is wliut a
certain individual wanted. Mr. Jones we
will call him. He was very sick. Consump
tion had fastened its fangs upon him. lie
had long neglected catarrh, and laughed at
the idea of t iking anything for it when ad
vised to do so, ami so went from bad to
woise. His lungs became <1 incased, a hack
ing, churchyard cough racked him almost to
pieces, and be was fast wasting away. A
mere shadow of bis form -r se'f, he scarcely
slept at all a night, or slept only to dream
horrible dieims. Talk of nightmare! A
w hole circus troupe, horses and all, seemed
to make his b">d tl e oiena of their wild per
formances. In this ease money did not
make the more go, for ho sp t a deal <f
money on doctors and physics and was
nothing both red. He ate little, and was
fast going down to an untimely gra\e. leav
ing his w.fo a widow and bin four bright
childien orphans, when, lo! on one eventful
night he dremned for once a bright and
happy driam, which our next paragraph will
relate.
Death, the b!nck-visaged monster, had
untd then stared him in the face, but the
dream bri light him hope. He saw a bright,
white-robed angel in his dicam, who said,
"I come to bring you good news. Here
is your cure —sure, safe, harmless, prompt
and reliable. Get well nn l seek to take
health thereby to others. Behold the cure!"
With these words the angel was gone, but ere
the trail of light which followed him had
vanished the dreamer saw glittering in the
light three golden letters—G. M. D. "What
can it mean?" he said to himself, as he
Rwoke from his slumber. "I l ave had a
Good Many Dreams before, but never such
a* this." Startled and surprised l.e aroused
his wife nnd to her related his vision. Alas,
sh.o could not solve the problem. Remem
bering nil the medical advice, and the physic,
and the expense in-olved since her husband
became sick, she expressed the lioj>e that the
fitter- were not intended to snggo*t that a
Good Many Doctors must yet be consulted
in addition to all that had been interviewed,
lie groaned in reply nnd remarked that if lie
had to consult any more the o would have to
be a Gold Mine Discovered in order to pay
them.
Every day for n week he and his faithful
WKjuse search# 1 diligently for a key to
the problem. In the dictionary, in such
newspapers ns they happened to have, in
books, on placards 011 the walls— ever} wi.ere
they sought—hoping to find a c.'ew. l etters
stand for words, and they hopt d to light
upon the words that should suggest the cure.
They Grieved Many Days over their lack of
gcod luck, ns they said, and the Good Man
Dreamed again and ng lin, bat saw no more
angels. Hope deferred maketh the heart
sick. "Oh, that the angel had Guided Me
Definitely and Given More Directions," he
>• claimed, again nnd again.
Nearly two weeks had elapsed since the
night of the Great Mysterious Dream, when
there came to the house a pamphlet. Tired
with his exhausting office work, which he
still pursued, determining if possible to die
in the harness, Jones was aliout to throw
the pamphlet in the fire when something
prompted him to examine it. Surely,
thought he, hero ran be nothing that will
Pierce this Gloom Most Distressing, or Giv®
Me. Dishesrte ed, any relief. Poor man,
lie had worked letters over in his mind, and
made so many combinations with them, that
they occurred in almost every sentence he
ottered. f l hey entered even into his pray
ers. Heaven Grant Me Deliverance, he
would say, nor let disease Grind Mo Down,
and so forth, ad intini.um, a;.d a mile or two
beyond.
Mentally tortured and si ffering in every
fiber of his body, what won a- that l e
read page after page of the para hlet. It
was a work on disrates, and in thi) morbid
state of his mind its conten s seemed to snit
him. It spoke of almost every disease that
flesh is heir to, but oh, joy! as he read, a
Glimj so Most Delightful of light stole in
upon him. "Eureka! /Surekal" he cried.
"Wife. I have it, I have it."
Everybody in the homre heard him cry
Eureka, and rushed to the room to hear
w hat he had found. All expected to see some
Grent Miracle Done, nnd then came the ex
planation. Simple, of course, but why hud
he not thought v>f it before? Oh, what a rev
elation! Here was hope for him and for all
consumptives. Here, hope for suffering
friend* and neighbors. That night hescaioe
could sleep, hu f when he did. he again saw a
bright vision of golden letters, in fact, a
Glittering Monagram Deciphered readily,
uid reading G. M. D.: and again P. P. P.,
ind yet again F. P.; and one huge P. around
shich the<eother* were entwined, and then
W. D. M. A. All the letters blended, yet
each was di tiuct. All ho had seen in the
book, all he again saw in his vision.
Dream Most Glorious. D. M. G. —G. M.
D.—Again he rang the changes; backward,
forward, every way. Gold Medal Deserved.
M. G. D.—Misery's Great Deliverer,—till
time would fail to tell them all. P. P. P.
stood for Perfect Pence Promised for suf
ferers, and sweet release from Prostrating
Purgatorial Pain*. And again F. P. was
Freedom Promised ami backward, P. F., it
became Tain Flees. Now he could get well,
and once well, he would be a missionary, a
Glad Missionary Devoted to the work of
telling others how they might get deliver
anoe. He went through the list of diseases
nmong ih >se of his own acquaintance, from
John Robinson, whose torpid liver gave hiin
constant headache and severe bil ous attacks,
on through the list of those suffering from
ulcers, cough-, weak and diseased longs, to
his friend, General B . who was as near
the grave as he. And for all these, as well
as for himself, the Grave May Disappear from
present vision, and each may bo Given More
Decades of life than they had hoped to have
years. Against tho milder cases lie marked
P. P. P. Against the serious cases he
marked G. M. D., not the Grizzly Mons'.er
Death, which be so lon<* had dreaded, but
something—oh, so much better, as we shall
presently see.
In a snort while onr hero was well, and
went everywhere among his friends and
neighbors, telling of his good fortune and
showing Ihe sick and the suffering how they
might be healed. Some laughed and con
tinued to suffer, refusing to be healed. More
v ere wise, took his counsel and proved liis
vision of the night as he had done.
"A vision, less beguiling far,
Than waking dreams oy daylight are."
Can anything be more delightful than
health after sickness? To be a well man,
to feel pure blcod coursing through your
veins, to know that lungs, liver, kidneys,
aud all Ihe Grand Machine y, Does its duty
perfectly in one's body; to carry health's
ruddy mark on the cheeks. Ah, this is Good
Most Decidedly. This was our hero's case,
and thousands can tell the same story. The
good angel has come to them. T.iey hive
seen the letters Gleam Most Distinctly before
their eyes, an 1 Going Most Definitely to
work in pursuing the instructions given,
they have recovered that great blessing—
Health. G. M. D. has been to them a chan
nel of good. Good Mysteriously Done, and
they bid their sick friends* do what all
ihe sick should do, niutiely, put Hienvselvea
in communication with the VV. D. M. A.,
Which Done M st Afimredly -will put tbffui
in the Wav Desired Mo<t Anxiously.
Alas, that Jiuinnn nature is so slow to be
lieve—alas, that meu and women are bowed
down with the burden of complaints, of
which they might be rid consumption,
bronchitis, dyspepsia, heart disease, kidney
disease, malar nl complaints, scrofulous dis
eases, skin diseases, tumors, ulcers, ni d
many more. It would seem n though some
ill deity hud given every letter of tne alpha
bet as many di-eases ns it. could possibly de
sire, thus forming an alphabet of sorrow,
sutl'eiing and woe. Happy they who the
G- eat Meaiuro Discerning, nave escaped the
clutches of sad di eases.
IxH>kinif back upon his past eTpcrionc©,
Mr. .Tones feels (irate ul Most Decidedly,
and continues telling the old story of his
sickness, his vision, and his restoration to
Ivealth; for ail the sick are not well >et. But
he lias had the pleasure of seeing, as he says,
Good Miraculously Done to hundreds up<sn
his person il recommendation.
Dear reader, bear with us awhile IE Mght
has not yet dawned on your mind. The mys
tery will soon be revealed. If the key be
not on your rtyht hand it is at lerst on your
left, in letters clear as daylight. A Good Many
Delighted have d s -overed it and opened the
portal to a long life and a useful one.
Initials of words that stand for a 1 that
is sorrowful and sad, letters, the self-same
letters, are often initial of words that breathe
of hope and benediction.
H< arch but awhile aud you will find the
boon, thu blessing and the benefit. The
mystery of the three P's, o r the F. P., of tl e
G. M. £>., and of ihe W. D. M. A., Will Dawn
Most Auspicious y upon you.
Columbus discovered America and won
high honor niul immortal fame, and they
w ho have learned the secrets of the wonder
before your eyes, good reader, Give Most
Deli ;h.ful testimonials of their gratitude.
< f all sad wo d* of tongue and jien, the
sadd.-st are ties—it might have been —
so eayeth the p it. When we think of the
myriads that un- ht have 1 een saved from
untimely graves h id they seen Mr. Jones'
vision and sought hi- way to health, we feel
pad. Yd we cannot but rejoice at the Gnat
Many Delivered from death's door by G. M.
D., a d that Pain's Positive Persecution
b; s been escaped again and again by P. P. P.
Virtues unnumbered se- ve to make O. M.
D. the Greatest Mercy Doigned by favor
ing piwidencts for the relief of sufferers,
and its discoverer fetD P. P. P.—Perfectly
Pardonable Pride in telling of the Growing
Multitude De'ivered from the Grasp Most
Dreadful of Greedy Mournful Death.
Every sick person is interested in the theme
before us, and e\ cry well pert* n, too, for who
does not l.iiow some one who is sick and
needs, therefore, the good news of health
that is Given Many Daily.
Deader, mystified reader, we will detain
von no longer. Perhaps you have Grossed
Most Deftly the hidden meaning. P. P P.,
von know, stands for Pleasant Purgative Pel
lets, curing com t put ion, torpidity of the
liver, headache and many olher complaints.
F. P., of course, is Dr. Pierce's havorite
Pre-err;! ion. ihat ha proved such a P. F.,
Prime Favorite and Precious Friend to la
dies; iafe, e ty to take, working like a
charm —curing the peculiar wta 1 ncsses in
cident to their sex. The letters W. D. M. A.
stand for the Wo;ld's Dispensary Medical
Association, at Buffalo, N. Y., with its im
posing structures, it< army of medical men,
Kjiecialists, all of them, rnl its president,
Dr. It. V. Pierce (the large and central P of
Mr. Jones' second vision), a.l at the service
of the sick and suffering, everywhere; while
G. M. D. is—we'l, lei i the initials of the
paragraphs of th's article ar.d you will see
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