CHILDREN'S COLUMN. Lulu Take* Care af Kitty. They brushed the clothee, they beat the clothes, One sunny April day— Their winter clothee, I mean—and then They packed them all away In paper boxes tied around With very strongest strings, First freely sprinkle the-n with some Tobacco dust and camphor gum, And other sneer? thingv. And when, their labor done, they took Their tea and toast* <1 bread, "Why, where is kitty?" some one nsied, And "I know," Lnlu said; "She's in my dollie's biggest trunk; I brushed and heated her; There can' not any moths, I dess, Det into her nice fur. She scratched my huders when I put The camphor snuff about. Div' me some toast that's battered frew," Tney lelt it all to her and flew To let poor kitty out. —Harper's Young People. The Little Cookie Boy. Abbie's mamma made a little cookie boy. He had a head and body, legs and arms. She made two little places for eyes. Then she put him in the oven, with some other little cookie boys, and baked them all to a pretty brown color. Our little cookie boy was taken out of the oven and laid upon the table. He saw Abbie and her brother and sister playing. , He wondered whether he was like them. He thought he would ask; but Abbie's mamma had forgotten to give him any mouth, so the question could not get out. He wondered next whether his hair was curly like Abbie's auntie's. He tried to feel, but Abbie's mamma had forgotten to give him any elbow joints, or make his shoulder blades loose. lie tried to get up, but, poor fellow, he had no knees or hips. All lie could do was to lie still and look around and wonder what he was made for. "While he was wondering. Abbie's mamma took him and tied a blue rib bon around his neck, ghe hung him up on a green tree, with little lights shining all over it. It was loaded with pretty things. He now began to feel quite vain. He thought he, too, must be very beautiful to be put among them. One by one the things were taken off the tree. Little faces grew bright er as the little arms became fuller. At last our little cookie boy was taken off and given to a merry little girl. She squeezed him so tight that he wanted to scream. He did not think she meant to kiss him, but she did put him toward her mouth. He did not know what to do. He could not faint or turn pale, he was too brown. He could not get away for he had no joints, lie was looking at the rosy little mouth so near him. He saw one of his own brown arms go into that mouth. Then he saw the other arm go in. He wanted to cry. Before he had time •% • to be sorry that he could not, his head was popped into the mouth. He knew no more. The little rosy-lipped girl thought he was the lx?st cookie hoy she ever ate. My advice to mammas, when they make little cookie boys, is not to give them any eyes. Then they need not look on and see themselves eaten up. Contrary Billy. Billy was a peddler's horse. Every day he drew a large wagon along the country roads. This large wagon was loaded with tin and brooms. It was a heavy load to draw. He stopped at all the houses, so that his master could sell the brooms and tins. One day after he had trotted along for several miles, Billy stopped where there was no house in sight "Go along!" said his master. "I won't!" said Billy. This is the way Billy said "I won't.'' He set his fore feet out. He laid back his ears and shook his head. His master got out of the wagon and patted him on the neck. Billy would not stir. He movl all the harness here and there, and patted him more. Billy would not stir. He talked to him in a very pleasant tone. But Billy would not stir. What was to be done? The peddler wished to sell his brooms and tins, and go home to supper. But he could not do this if Billy refused to do his part. He went to the back of the wagon. A gentleman who passed by thought he was going to whip the horse with some heavy thing. Instead, the peddler took a pail from the wagon- There was some meal in this pail. He showed this to Billy, then he walked on and set the pail down. Billy could see the pail. Pretty soon Billy lifted his ears, lie looked very good-natured. He went forward to the pail. Then his master let him eat the meal. Then he put the pail back in the wagon, and Billy trotted off brisk ly with his load. I The meal was better for Billy than the whip.— Little Folks' Reader. A correspondent of the Tropica Ag riculturist says regarding the destruc tion of ants: "Take a white china plate and spread a thin covering of common lard over it. Place it on the shelf or other place infested by the troublesome insects. You will be pleased with the result. Stirring up every morning is all that is needed to set the trap again." TOPICS OF THE DAT. Mr. J. K. Farkinson, of Cincinnati, who was recently admitted to practice in the supreme court of the United States, is probably the only deaf and dumb lawyer ever admitted to that court. lie has had an extensive prac tice as a patent lawyer, and is sai l to be both accurate and ready. A few years ago a chimney made.of paper would have seemed a preposter ous absurdity. Vet a chimney of pape r pulp, fifty feet high, hits lately been put up at Breslau, in Germany. Com pressed paper pulp is one of the least inflammable of substances, and is now generally recognized as superior to iron as a material for lire-proof doors. The combined efforts of four police- men were recently required to carry into the House of Commons a petition in favor of closing public bouses on Sunday—-one of the largest documents of the kind ever presented to Parlia ment. It contained 590,382 signatures upon a continuous roll of paper, which was 4832 yards long and weighed 350 pounds. One Robert Griffin, of London, is afraid that the earth will not be large enough to hold the inhabitants it will have some years hence. The New Or leans Picayune suggests that Robert is living in a very crowded part of the world. Bet him down on an American prairie and he will not feel so bunched up in his mind as he does at the pres ent moment. Oleomargarine, it seems, is not the only or the most disagreeable imitation of butter which finds a place in the market. There is an abomination called "sucine," made from the fat of hogs, which was the cause, not long since, of prostrating an entire family at Cleveland with trichinosis. The proper punishment for the vender of such an article would be to compel him to eat It It is estimated that nine-tenths of all the mercantile failures of the United States are due to speculations in affairs outside the particular lines of business in which those who fail were engaged. This looks like an exaggeration, yet the percentage is known to be very large. In the haste to be rich, men make haz ardous adventures, and, if unsuccess ful, find themselves so crippled that assignment is inevitable. An investigator into the influence of olimate upon consumptives, says that, in choosing places of residence for such patients, too little attention is given to the character of the soil. It !s shown that, other things being equal, the prevalence of the disease is in pro portion to the habitual dampness of the earth. The atinospheric conditions to be sought for are "rarity, calmness, purity and sun warmth." The French do not seem to be troubled with scruples agjunst vivi section. In Paris, not long ago, si pro fessor of natural history announced that he intended to make some experi ments on quivering flesh. For this purpose he procured a rabbit, skinned it alive, nailed it on a board by the paws, and proceeded to cut holes in the wretched animal byway of illustrating his theories. This sickening exhibition took place before a class of young girls. A Tidal Wave. At 5 o'clock on the morning of May 10, 1877, a cry of terror from the beach of Hilo, Hawaii, roused the sleepers on the hill. They rushed down to meet half-drowned men, women and children, running from their ruined homes. A tidal wave had overwhelm ed several hundred houses and swept away fifty. A little church stood on the beach. The wave moved it inland two hundred feet, scarcely injuring a timber, but tolling its bell as an accom paniment to its own angry roar. Sev eral weeks after, news came that there had been a severe earthquake at Iquique, Peru, at 8 o'clock on the eve ning of May 9th. As the distance is about eight thousand miles, the tidal wave had travelled that distance in nine hours. Miss Cummings, in a re cent work on the kingdom of Hawaii, describes the remarkable tidal wave which rolled on the beach at Hilo, November 7, 1837. She writes: At Hilo ten thousand natives, who had assembled for religious instruction, were either resting at home or gather ed in groups on the shore. Just at sunset, the sea suddenly began retreat ing from the beach at the rate of five miles an hour. The natives rushed in crowds to see the strange sight, when suddenly a gigantic wave formed and rushed toward them with an appalling roar, ltising twenty feet above high water mark, it dashed into the village and broke with a noise as if a mountain had fallen. Then arose wails of an guish. Men, women and children, the old and the helpless, struggled in the flood, amid their wrecked homes. Clothing, food, domestic animals, tim bers, and canoes were swept out to sea. Some men rushed from the upper shore into the billows and saved scores of half-drowned persons. So violent was the suction that even strong swimmers could make little way. The cool courage of English sailors saved many. An English whaler was anchor ed in the bay. The tidal wave dashed over her as it rushed inland. The next nstant she rose and shook the waters from her. ller crew, seeing scores of natives stunned and tloating out to sea, manned their boats and rescued many. It is a singular coincidence, that the text of the missionary's sermon that day was "Be ye also ready." WORD BLINDNESS. A RrmnrknMo Mnllrl Case. DtlfUlve Sprtch From Defective tleinory Dr. A. D. Williams described at a meeting of the St. Louis medical socie ty, a case of aphasia which had recent ly come undei his observation, ami it is generally acknowledged that the case is one of the most remarkable ever put on record. John MeWilliams, a whit" oner and plasterer, is the victim of this extraordinary attack. MeWilliams came to the free dispen sary to be treated for a supposed ail ment of the eye. Three or four days before, during the very sleety weather, he fell on the sidewalk at the mouth of the alley in which he lives striking the whole of the right side of his body and especially his head, at once. There were no symptoms t j speak of at tirst, but he felt faint and weak, lie went into the house, and felt some trouble in his left side, the force of tho shock having been transmitted and caused a contra-coup. Even now that side seems the most affected. For two or three days he did not know that any ill result had followed, until he was doing a job of plastering on a porch, when he discovered that his sight was defective in some way. lie wish ed to put a piece of plaster on a cer tain spot above his head, but could not succeed. He could see the plaster well enough, and the spot of ceiling, but w hen it came to combining the two be failed, always striking some other spot. Returning home he fur ther found that he could not call his wife and son by their Christian names. There was no paralysis, but a weak ness of the body, lie could generally say what he wanted if time were giv en him, and he understood everything that was said to him, and oould repeat any word thnt was suggested. Another feature of his case was that although he was a ni;ui of considerable educa tion, he had forgot ten how to write or to read either written or printed words. When he was sent to Dr. Hazard, that gentleman tested him by pointing to the word "surgery" in large capitals in a medical journal, "Do you know what that is?" "Oh, yes." "Spell it then." "B-e—" "Oh, no! s-u-i-g-e-r-y.'' "Why, yes, that's surgery." Then the doctor bade him try again, but again he misname I the letters. He did not seem to connect any meaning with the forms. Again he could not locate ob jects correctly with the eye. Wore a chair pointed out to him he would rec ognize it imuicdiataly, but if started on a line toward it he could not turn out of course, and would infallibly walk into it. He could not lift his linger up and touch his eyeball; he would always strike to the right or left of it if he watched the linger. With his eyes closed, however, lie could readily place his linger on them. At first he thought there was some trouble with the eyeball, and that was why he called on Dr. Williams; but the orb was found perfectly natural. It was, however, deflected somewhat out, the nerve that holds the eye in j lace having been jarred by the shock. The case was entirely one of amniesic aphasia, defective speech from defect ive memory. There were two kinds of it. In one the centers concerned in hearing were affected; in the other, as McWilliams's, those concerned in sight were impaired. His was an extraordi nary example of word blindness. In ordinary ataxic aphasia the patient knows only a few things TTy the same name, but he is able to write and understand anything written or print ed, and so convey his ideas. McWiL lianis was in a situation just the con verse of this, and his intellect must be deeply affected. He Smashed Their Idol. A series of revival meetings was in progress, and the subject on one even ing was the book of liuth. Among the congregation was a brother whom the sisters delighted to hear. His lan guage was always flowery- grandly eloquent. Waiting for his chance, he at length arose and said: "Brethren and sisters, the subject this evening is the book of Ruth. And do you know that I never turn to the book of Ruth without a thought coming to my mind that there it lies, like a beautiful jew el, between the ermine of the Judges and the purple of the Kings." Such an exquisite thought did not fail to have its effect upon his admiring hear ers. Later in the evening an elderly clergyman came in, and, after listening to the remarks for some time, arose and said: "My friends, whenever I turn to the book of Ruth, 1 am always reminded of that beautiful quotation from Taylor, that it lies, like a lovely jewel, between the ermine of the Jud ges and the purple of the Kings." And he sat down, blissfully unaware of the idol he had smashed. Plenty of Orders. "Did you get any orders ?" asked the boss of the drummer who had just re turned from his first trip. "Any or ders?" echoed the drummer; "that's the trouble; that's the trouble; that's all I did get. I was ordered out of every shop I went into before I could sell a thing. Oh, yes, enough, if that's all a fellow wnnts." THE NEWS. For the past ten days a remarkable and startling state of affairs has existed at Dodge City, Kansas. Several prominent Kansas City attorneys left to-day for Topeka, to petition Guv. Glick to place the town under marshal law. The troublo is tho culmination of a long-standing feud between two ele raents In that place. Dodge City has long borne the reputation of a hard town. It ts one of the few in Kaiifenft wiibre saloons are r\m Openly nhd gambling is legitimate. Ex-Speaker Egan, of the New Jorsey House of Representatives, was committed to jail at Newark under an indictment for attempting to bribe Assemblyman Arinitage. Two German residents, CJ. H. J. Mullet - , an undertaker, and William Hashorn, a brewer, both married men, bad a duel with broadswords at Bowmanville, a suburb of Chicago. Roth were married men and the trouble was about another woman. Col. Torres, with :KK) troops attacked the Apache Indians in the mountains, killing eleven, and lost fiveof his men. The Apaches were hopelessly routed. Gen. Grant's mother died in Jersey City, agedfl years. Middle and Southern News A dispatch from Montreal says a young nun in the Hoehelaga Convent, who was anxious to be released from her vows, has had her prayer granted by the Tope and lias returned to her family. Strange vessels appear off the Halifax, N. C., harbor, and act suspiciously, giving strength to the report that English vessels are to be blow n up while entering tbe harbor. A tiro in the dwelling. Baltimore, caused ihe death of Mr. John F. Adams, aged 83, and Jane Byers, the colored cook, aged 10% Good ordinary !• @ 0% I HAY—Md: and Pa. Hinot'y 14 00 (ft 16 00 i STRAW-Wheat H 00 @ 10 00 BUTTER—Western prime.. 20 @ 28 West Virginia 10 @ 21 I CHEESE—New York State choice 15 (ft 10 Western prime 14 (ft 14%' | EGGS 15 @ 16 I CATTLE 5 00 @6 62 I SWINE 0 @ 10% SHEEP AND LAMBS 5 @ 6 TOBACCO LEAF-Inferior. 1 50 @ 200 Good common 3 00 @ 4 50 Middling 0 00 @ 8 00 Good to fine red 8 50 @> 10 00 Fancy 1000 @l4 00 NEW YOBK. | COTTON—Middling upland 11 @ 11% ; FLOUR —Southern com. to fair extra 4 50 @5 30 WHEAT —No. 1 white 1 2 5 @1 27 RYE—State 78 @ 70 CORN—Southern Ye110w.... 09 @ 70 OATS—White State 51 (# SJ„ BUTTER—State 20 @ 23 j CHEESE —State 13 @ 14 | EGGS 20 @ 28 PHILADELPHIA. I FLOUR—Pennn. fancy 4 75 @5 10 HEAT—Pa. and Southern red 1 2C @1 23 ! RYE —Pennsylvania 76 (ft 78 , CORN—Southern ye110w.... 68 (cb 69 1 OATS 55 @ 56 ' BUTTER—State 20 @) 25 EGGS - State 15 @ 17 A REMARKABLE STOUT. Tht following narrative is lelf-explanatoty. The letter which precedes it is a title copy of the original* and was sent to us, together With the details, by an officer now in the United States Navy. United States Flagship Nomad, | Navy Yard, BOSTON, Mass., > January 10 t 188-. ) A fy dear Friend —Your kind favor con taining on my rfeltoration to health Ift before me. When we parted thirty inonths ago little did we imagine that either would be brought near death's door by a dis ease which selects for its victims those who present an internal field of constitutional weakness for ita first attack, because you and I were in those days the personification of health—and can claim this to-day,thank Qodl Why 1 can do so will be told to-morrow,when we meet at your dinner, as you only know that I have passed through a terrible iriness; my delivery from death being due to the wonderful discovery in modioal sclonce, made by a man who to-day stands i" the front rank of his fellow workers- uncnualed by any in my own opinion. That l, who heretofore have ever been the most orthodoi believer in the old school of medicine, its application and results, should thus recant in favor of that winch is sneered at by old practitioners, may startle you, but "seeing is believing," and when I reoount the attack made on my old hulk, how near I came to lowering my colors, and tho final volley Which, through the agency above mentioned, gave me viotory, you will at least credi® me with just cause ior sincerity in my thunkful ness and belief. I will also spin my yarn anent my China cruisa. and altogether, ex pect to entertain as well as be entertained by you. With best wishes, Sinoerely yours, Rear Admiral U. 8. Navy, non. GEORGE WENDELL, Sinclair Place, Boston, An autumnal afternoon in the year 188- found the taut flagship Noraftd rounding the treacherous and dangerous Bxtremi'y of South America. And this dap cftrtalnly in tended to place itself on record with those of its predecessors marked 6tormy, its Hasti ness in wind and weather giving nil hands on hoard the flagship their fill in hard work and discomforts. The record of ino Nomad on this cruise, wh eli she was uoW complet ing on her homeward bound passage to Bos ton, had been most di-Agreeable. when con sidered in tho light of heavy weather work. From Suez to Aden, then on to Bombay, Point de Galle, Singapore. Hong Kong. Shanghai. Nagasaki and Yokohama, the balance sheet stood largely in favor of old Neptun 'H rough characteristics, but with remarkable evenness the health and original rover of the ship's company stood this day as it did nearly three years ago—with one exception. Throughout the diverse and varied exposures incidental to cruising over the Asiatic station, where cholera, fevers, liver complaints, malaria, and colds of all degrees reign in full force, none of the crew had suffered more than teint>orary incon venience, and thuft it seemed very hard that now, in the closing days of the cruise, the.'e stood nine chances for, to one against, a vfc tory being at last scorod for the destroying angel Death. When the Nomad reached Shanghai in the ea:ly portion of bar cruise tier admiral was the healthiest man aboard. A grand specimen of manhood was he. Over six feet in height, weighing two hundred pounds, broad in chest and strong in limb, lie rightly claimed for liixDsclf a full short of Nature's blessings. While returning late one night from a diplomatic reception at tho Consulate at Shanghai, through overheat ing and insufficient protection from the dan gerous effects of the jieculiar damp and s, aching night nir, he caught cold. "Only a cold," remarked the admiral to the doctors of his ship, "and easy to cure." So though: the medical officers, but with a quiet though insidious pr< grossion, this cold clung to the admiral in spite of their best efforts to erad icate it, and when the time came for leaving Yokohama, homeward bound, the admiral re alized that his lungs and throat were decid edly out of order. The doctors advised re turning home by mail steamer to San Fran cisco, so that greater means for curing this persistent cough might be found in tho Naval Hospital there; but the admiral pre ferred to stick to his ship, still imagining that his trouble would eventually be over come by the doctors' treatment. No one who looked nt the admiral even in those days imagined that he would fall a victim tolling trouble. But it was the old story again typified in this case. Only a cold at first; and in spite of orthodox treat ment the peculiar climatic effects of China nursed it, and hastened the sure result of such a deep-seated trouble. Time passed after leaving Yokohama for bringing varying symptoms in the admiral's case, and the doctors imagined that they held the dis ease in check at least. But with the forma tion of tubercles, night-sweats and the now rup.d consumption of lung tissues, which had set j;i with alarming symptoms, the pa tient realized that his cold had laid the seeds of that fell agent of Death, conMumpfiou. The hacking cough of the admiral had in itself been sufficient food for serious consid eration. and now, as in the warm autumn days the flagship gallantly rode over the blue waters of the Pacific, bound for Cape Horn, the doctors hoped much for success. But this boisterous afternoon found thegood ship struggling with gigantic seas set off from tho Cape by a fierce northerly wind. Leaden were the heavens and sad the hearts of all aboard, for that morning the usual bulletin of the medical officers had "set forth this intelligence: "The admiral is in same condition as reported last night. A burning feAer has been slightly reduced, while other symptoms are as heretofore an nounced." All understood these words without questioning. The beloved admiral had during the past two weeks sunk very low. The symptoms of blood-poisoning, a torpid liver, intense pains throughout the body, eyesight and mental faculties affected, appe tite gone, through inaction of that great reg ulator—the liver. These were the means which had reduced the admiral from tho pinacle of health to the valley and shadow of death. Consumption held full sway now, and the well-known 6kill of naval djctors was in this instance at least completely foiled. The admiral had issued orders for the flag ship to touch at Montevideo for ooal, and it was the intention of the doctors to land the admiral there for treatment. But one man in tho ship was wrapped in the gloom of de spair, as standing by the weather rigging on the poop deck ne g rzed nbsently over the seething waste of waters. This was the ad miral's eon, a lieutenant, and atta hel to his father's staff. He feared that the wear and tear of ship life would sap his father's strength beyond endurance, and before the ship could reach Montevideo. Among a group of sailors gathered around one of the great guns on the spar deck stool the captain of the foretop, Brown, a slight but healthy looking man. His companions were listen ing to a recital of his sufferings from con sumption, which had developed while he was nttached to tho sloop-of-war Ranger , lying in the harbor of Yokohama a year ago, this "yarn" having been started by a discussion about the admiral's condition. The men hid just returned from some work around the deck, an order for which l al interrupted Brown's story a few moments previously. " A year ago this day I was nove to in tho 'pill man's' sick bay in the Ranqtr, then off Yokohama, an' I tell you, pards, 'twas no use pipin' my number, 'cause I was nigh on passin in my enlistment papers for along cruise aloft," continued Brown. "Con sumption had me flat aback, and the doctor says it was no use to stow away his lush in my hold Beein' that my bellows was con demned by a higher power than he could wrastle witn." , "How did you pucker out of it?" asked n gunner's mate. ' "Wa'all," replied Brown, "my Chinee wash man came to me one inornin' an' he says to me, "me habgot allee same Melican man medikin, do you heap go id!' I says, •bring it off, Chang; I buy all the same.' 'I hat afternoon Chang hovo np with fourteen bottles of a lush, enough to kill or cure the whole ship's crew, an' that looked fresh in their nice wrappers. Says Ch ing, 'China man doctor hab got plentee more, lie make heap good well with my sick, this number one mcdiken allee same through Yokohama.' Wa'all, I took the bottles an' told the doctor I was goin' to try one as by the sailiu' or ders on the bottle, and the docter he laughed nnd said 'twas no good, but I done as the regulations says from the first, an' here I am. ag'in the doctor's ideas, to be sure!' With this triumphant assertion Brown looked about the circle. Then, lowering his voice, said: "Boys, I've four of those precious bottles left —ain't give 'em all away yet i f ter I was cured —an' if you all think that it would not be too free with the 'old man,' suppose I go to his son there on the poop deck an' say what I have to you, an' askin' his pardon, say we want the ad miral to try the stuff in my boitles, 6eein' that they cured my consumption." i This idea met with appro.al from all sides. Therefore Brown walked off for an interview with the admiral • son, with no little anxiety in his good heart as to the re stilt of his mission. Approaching the lieu tenant, Browtt saluied, and asked for per mission to state his reasons fof doing so. This was readily granted, and Brown spoke OU " Seeing that 1 was once cured of cott snmptioni lieutenant, I make bold to ask if I can tell you how, an' why 1 ve the rea sons for *i hing you to ose on your father What tny salvation. , A In a few moments the lieutenant nao story out, and nn:h to the latter s cratification, granted a riaiy permission to him. It did not take Brown long to run to his ditty box, get the bottles of medicine, and return to the lieulennnt with them. "I'm afearedtbat the doctors will kick ag'in the use of this blessed stuff, an wh it will you do, sir." snid Brown, as he placed the medicine in tl e cabin orderly s In n Is to be taken into the adrni al's room. "I will atteud to that, B own, and rest as sured that your remedy will have a fair trial in spite of any opposition. It will not harm iny father, judging from yottr siateraent and ihe opinion Of the Medical officers of the " 'fhank yon. sir, an' God help the admiral to Weather his trouble, is the prayer of all the slap," said Brown, as the lieutenant turned to enter the cabin. There was no cessation in the itonn that evening. The gale howled through the fig ging in Wild, discordant tones; the great ship labored through the White-capped moun tains of water threatened to engulnh her with each burst of their storm-whipped crests. Within the admiral's cabin the Ar gand lights, the comfortable furniture, and the numerous evidences of the admirals wanderings ovAr land And watfr as displayed in choice bric-a-brac and trimmings, gave to the room a warm, snug appearance, most til easing this wild night to those within. In his stateroom lay tne admiral, made fortablA by all that loving hands and willing hearts ttould suggest. By his side sat his son, who in quiet foice Was recounting to his father the interview with Brown, and thA opposition met with frotn the doctors when the idea of giving this new medicine was btoacheu. , . A . " You were sleeping at the time, ifltnct, And therefore missed a laughable scene, made so. in spite of your condition, by the intense dislike displayed by the doctors for this 'new-fang ed stuff/ this 'patent liquid, Which they declared With their eoyseut should never be given to you. Well, I cut the matter short by saying that I would take u.. t..0 responsibility, and with your permis sion would administer it. That I obtained when I found you awake, and now you are under way with the first bottle as per direc tions. I am satisfied, dear father, that it will do you good, a premonition filling my heart that at last we have found the means of arresting the burning fever and hacking cough w.nch have been troubling you so much." The admiral's reply was cut short by a oevcre spell of coughing, during which ha spat blood, and when finished sank back ex flaunted. But the grateful look which he be stowed on his son was an additional assur ance of belief in that which the admiral had at firs. Sight dubbed as a possible but doubt ful me.ins of doing hiin any good. But lay ing aside his dislike for any but old-estab lished remedies, the admiral acquiesced in his son's reque t, and now, after this last "ped, admitted that the effect of the doso liad softened the dreaded severity of the racking cough. . • • e • Three weeks later found the Nomad mak ing the harbor of Montevideo. After severe ind prolonged weather she had rounded the Cape and was now standing in the harbor (or the purpose of recoaling and watering. To one given to the study of human line.i ineuts the facee of those aboard the flagship this bright morning would have afforded in finite scojie for sucti pursuit. But the source of each man's happiness flowed from tho same fountain of g a eful joy. The beloved admiral was the cause of this. And why? If you could have seen the admiral this bright morning, dear reader, your auswer would have been easily found in his face. A changed man was he. Victory was perched on his guidons! the dread enemy was s owly retreating! The fight was a severe OLA out with no cessation in vigilant action ana care ful api lication of the contents of four bottles the admiral had turned the flank of consumpt.oa, and was sh wly bnt surely driving nim off tl e fie d with a power which astounded the doctors and filled All hearts with joy and thonkfuJuess. What was this then that had won the vic tory for the seaman Brown, and was now leading the admiral's shattered forces to the same grand result? When asxed this ques tion by oua of his officars on duty, in Slon tevideo, the admiral, slowly lifting his hand, replied, "I would that in letters oi gold, and so placed that all the world could read them, the name of this great remedy could be shown, coupled with the genius who discov ered i.— THE GOLDEN MEDICAL DISCOVERT! Dr. Pierce, of Buffalo, N. Y.,' the man who has given to his fellow men the greatest re lief from all ills that mortal flesh is heir to!" "This is the name of the contents of that bottle on my table, and God bless the man who has found the secret of filling it with a medicine at once purifying and strengthen ing, wholesome and thorough in its results, and claiming, in my humble opinion, noth ing for itself that it cannot reasonably per form. Nature's ally against tho abuse of man!" Well might the admiral sing the praises of that which had so unexpectedly rescued him from a fatal illness. When the ship anchored the first commission for the admiral's son to execute was a large purchase of Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discoverv, which, as the ad miral sadly admitted, he had seen in everj I>ort the work! around and had only admired as an evidence of the energy and enterprise of an American who could thus place hi 3 Golden Medical Discovery in every nook and corner of the globe. But now he was one more to testify to the wonderful power of this medicine, and certainly did so in Montevideo, by praising it up to all the high officials who visited him. A week later and the Nomad sailed for Boston direct. What the condition of the admiral was when she arrived there is shown in his letter above. Let it be recorded to the credit of the doctors on the flagship that they were completely cured of all dislike for tiie'Golden Medical Discovery, used it faith fully on the voyage to Boston, and landed, through its wonderful rower, the admiral completely restored; and more than one poor fellow who started out in the sick bay of the Nomad. What stanch friends the Golden Medical Discovery made in that ship! The above, reader, is an outline of the story, sp ;n by the admiral to his friend when they met at tho dinner. We will not touch on othe portions of his interesting recital of his cruise in general, our aim being to re cord his testimony for the greatest wonder in med.cal science that this nineteenth cen tury of surprising developments has pro duced. From the wonderful power of Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery over that terribly fatal disease, consumption, which is scrofula of the lunsrs, when first offering this now world-famed remedy to the public, Dr. Pierce thought favorably of calling it his "consumption*cure," but abandoned that na ne as too restrictive for a medicine that from its wonderful combination of germ-de stroying, as well as tonic, or strengthening, niter, tive or blood-cleansing, anti-bilious, diuretic, pectoral and nutritive properties, is unequaled, not only as a remedy for con sumption of the lungs, but for all chronio diseases of the liver, blood, kidneys and lungs. Golden Medical Discovery cures ull humors, from the wo st scrofula to a com mon blotch, pimple or erup ion. Erysipe las, salt-rheum, fever-sores, scaly or rough skin, in short, all diseases caused by disease germs in the blood, are conquered by this powerful, purifying and invigorating medi cine. Great e iting ulcere rapidly heal under its benign influences. Especially has it manifested its potency in curing tetter, rose rash, boils, carbuncles, sore eyes, scrofulous sores and swellings, white swellings, goitre or thick neck, and enlarged glands. "The blood is the life. Thoroughly cleanse this fountain of health by using Golden Mtdical Discovery, and good diges tion, a fair skin, buoyant spirits, vital strength and soundness of constitution are established. For weak lungs, spitting of blood, shorl breath, consumptive night-sweats and kin dred affections, it is a sovereign remedy. In the cure of bronchitis, severe coughs and consumption, it has astonished the medical faculty, and eminent physicians pronounce it the greatest medical discovery of the age. The nutritive properties possessed by cod liver oil ate trifling when compared with those of the Golden Medical Discovery. It rapidly builds up the system and increase the flesh and weight of those reduced belo3 the usual standard of health by wasting dis eases. * # # * # # # The reader will pardon the foregoing di gression, prompted by our admiration for a remedy that performs such marve ous cures, and permit us to say that when the admiral returned to his home jn New York the only cloud cast upon thi happiness of thtrennfcm with bis family was caused by the continued illness of his el lest son, a young man of twenty-four, whose when the Ad tniral sailed from Montavedio, had been re fvjrted fls succumbing to the treatment tf the family doctor. But his father thoughtjt otherwise; tho unfortunate young min WW suffering severely from chronic dtsear# or 'he kidneys and bladder. Before leaving Boston the admiral hid purchased a oopy of Dr. Pierce's book, ' The People's Cominofl Sfense Medical Adviser." He read this val uable book thoroughly, and upon his arrival homo had made up his mind as to the futurd treatment for his son. The latter was sent to the famous Invalids' Hotel, at Buffalo, N. Y., conducted by Dr. R. V. Pierce, and hie compe ent staff of socialists, where, under skillful treatment, the sufferer soon found relief and a permanent cure. Skeletons, supposed to be those of giants, have been discovered in a North Carolina mound. Rheumatism, disordered blood, general debility, and many chronic diseases pro nounced incurable, are often cured by Brown's Iron Bitters. Four brothers named Burnett recently married four sisters named Berry. JOPLIN, Mo.—Dr. J. B. Morgan, says; "I find that Brown's Iron Bitters gives entire satisfaction to all whcMise it." There are forty-nine female physicians ill Brooklyn, N. Y. F AIRFIELD, lowa.—Dr. J. L. Myers says; "Brown's Iron Bitters is the best iron pre paration I have ever known in my thirty years of practice." 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