| ~~ Ee .,- J éathik LINOOLN'S MEULANOHOLY. #is Sympathetic Nature and His Early Misfortunes. Those who saw muoh of Abraham Lincoln during the later years of his life, were greatly impressed with the expression of profound melancholy his face always wore in repose. Mr. Lincoln was of a peculiarly gym pathetic and kindly nature. These strong characteristics influenced, very happily, as it proved, his entire po- titioal career. hey would not seem, at first glance, to be efficient aids to political success; but in the peculiar emergency which Lincoln, in the providence of God, was called to meet, po vessel of common olay could possi- bly have become the ‘chosen of the Lord.” Those acquainted with him from boyhood knew that early griefs tinged his whole life with sadness. iis tner im the grocery business at em was “Uncle” Billy Green, of Tallula, I11l., who used at night, when the customers were few, to hold the grammar while Lincoln recited hus les- sons. It was to his sympathetic ear Lincoln told the story of his love for sweet Ann Rutlidge; and he, in return, offered what comfort he could when poor Ann died, and Lancoln’s great heart nearly broke. “After Ann died,” says ‘Uncle” Billy, ‘“‘on stormy nights, when the wind blew the rain against the roof, elbows on his knees, his face in his his fingers. I hated to see him feel bad, an' I'd say, ‘Abe dou't ery’; an’ he'd look up an’ say ‘I can't help it, Bill, the rain’'s a fallin’ on her.’” There are many who can sympathize when What adds think of a lost loved one, rain’s a fallin’ on her.” the thought that the lost one might have been saved. writes June 1890: “Last ary, on returning from church one aight, my daughter complained of hay- mga pain in her ankle. The pain radually extended until her entire mb was swollen and very paintul to ‘he tonch. We called a physician, rho after careful examination, pro- Jounced it disease of the kidneys of ong standing. All we could do, did not seem to benefit her until we tried Warner's Safe Cure; from the first she commenced to improve. When she commenced taking it she could not turn over 1n bed, and could just move her hands a little, but to-day she is as well as she ever was, I believe 1 owe the recovery of my daughter to its use,” 28, m———— I O_o — The Story of a Little Book. The recent death of Oliver Bell Bunce, in New York, removed one of the very best posted men in literary circles. Few men knew so many su- thors as did Mr. Bunce; for over forty years he came into continual contact with them. Mr. Bunce was the author of that clever Iittle manual “Don't,” which has reached a sale of over 150,- 000 copies in its different editions here and abroad. Few little books of its kind are better than this; in fact, I doubt if it has an equal in worth, al- though its imitators can be counted by the score. I recall Mr. Bunce telling me one evening how he came to write occurred to him on a trein, in June, ago. rections given at once suggested to Mr, gan his odd literary task, ideas crowd- ng upon him in rapid succession. a month, the little work, which bas since carried its terse morsels of practi- cal advice and good sense into thou- sands of Hohl, was written, print ed and published. The nom de plume of “Censor” was placed on the fly-leaf, and for a long time public curiosity was piqued as to the authorship, ally, it leaked out that Mr. B. was re- sponsible for the authorship. The bright, little book has now heen trans- lated into several languages and sells as steadily as when first published. A Karpin having affixed his affections apon some female, acquaints his par. ents with his intentions. They apply #0 the girl's parents, and if the latter do not consent to the union a fight is inevitable, If the parents agree, the next proceeding is to appoint two ex. pert female negotiators, who obtain ac- cess by stratagem to the house, with the object of broaching the subject to the young lady. They carefully avoid any rudden or abrupt mention of the awful sibject of their mission, but launch out 1n praises of the man who seeks her hand. They speak of his possessions, his courage and seccom- jlisitnasta The girl, pretending to aflronted even at these remote hints, ows refractory and runs away, tear- ng the ringlets of her hair as she re- tires, The female embassadors, having 4 the consent of the parents, drag from her concealment and carry her by force to the house of her des tined husband and there leave her She is compelled to live here several by silent and dejected, Relusing food at last, if kind entreaties do not she is made to submit bt vows the union. The Kaflir who the a tation of having committed a num: joys exoeptional experiences little JFomring a wife, The Kaffir* woman to a life of toil and drudgery, and the husband can noun Bor Yen: over he feels so disposed. ————————— a as over a hundre thousand in but no publi hospital or dispensary, TESTED RECIPES, FRENCH CAKE. Three cups of flour, two oups of sugar, one and a half cups of buiter or lard, one gill of water, one cup of milk, one and a half enps of fruit, four eggs, spice, one teaspoon soda, the juice of a lemon. This will keep for some weeks, RAISED CAKE. Two cups of raised dough, two oups of sugar, two eggs, one half cup of butter and lard each, one cup of sweet milk, two oups of flour, one teaspoon of soda, one eup of iruit and spice, put in pans, let stand one-half hour. This makes two loaves, HONEYCOMB PUDDING, Four eggs, one cup of molasses, one- half cup of sugar, one-half cup of milk, one-half cup of flour, one tea- spoonful of salt, two ounces of butter, one teaspoonful of sods; beat the yolks of eggs very light, then mix with sugnr, milk, molasses, salt and the butter melted, then add the flour, then the soda dissolved in a little boiling water; lastly add the whites of eggs beaten to a stiff froth; bake in 8 moderate oven from thirty-five to forty minutes; if cooked too long it will look like cake; if just night, the outside will look like honeycomb and the inside like jelly. To be eaten with hot lemon sauce. BAKED APPLE DUMPLINGS, Roll thin any nice puff paste and cut into square pieces; pare and remove the cores from nice stewing apples and | roll an apple in each piece of paste; | put them into a baking dish, brush | them with the white of an egg beaten three quarters of an hour, CREAM TOAST, Cut slices of stale light bread—bak- to a fine yellow brown. A scorched or blackened orumb is fatal Butter | , silver or stout ware inches deep. Set (covered) in an oven | for five minutes. By this time the | milk should all be absorbed. Lift each slice carefully with a broad knife far enough to pour over it a tablespoonful of cream. Taste a crumb to be sure | the seasoning is right. Most people | make milk toast toc fresh, Balt again to a moderate oven for ten minutes, Serve in the bowl, if it is presentable, if not, transfer carefully to a heated china bowl or saucer. The toast will be tender, puffy, relishful and exceed- ingly digestible. DELICIOUS SANDWICHES, sandwiches are the prettiest things and the newest things for after. noon tea. Peach jam, strawberry, ap- ricot and plum make the best sand- wiches, Of course the bread must be cut thin and well buttered before the the slices, if Jam game piece of bread does for both, Large strawberries cut in slices quarter of an inch thick, strewn with sifted sugar, and put between thin slices of French roll spread with fresh butter, or, bet- ter still, with heavy cream, make ex- quis te sandwiches, and so do pineap- pes treated in the same fashions Uream cheese sandwiches, sugared, not salted, are delicious served with straw- berries, For savory sandwiches, let- tuce, encumber, and tomato are much | nicer at this time of the year than the anchovies and caviare and smoked sar- dines that make such pleasant and dainty additions to the afternoon tea table in winter. Have you tried a very simple sandwich made of a nasturtinm leaf, sprinkled with a little salt, and set between two thin, circular pieces of bread and butter of its own size? If not, it will surprise you to find how | dainty it is in flavor. THE USES OF THE LEMON, Lemonade from the juice of the best and safest It is suitable for all stomach diseases, gravel, liver and fevers. It is a specific against complaint. Lemon known. It iiot only cures the disease, but prevents it. Sailors make daily | use of it for this purpose. 1 advise AS far on its way Lo beco re an accomplish. ed fact tht a site of 300 acres has been purchased, One-half of the grounl will be used for the site of the tower and the other half will be laid out in pleasure grounds, ssf —— One of the most ingenious frauds in food 1s that of adulterating powdered cinnamon by grind ng up oid cigar box- es and mixing the powdered wood with the spice. ———————————— A Fring Ar Tue Doctor, —'*That doctor is the most dressy physician I ever saw.” “You thiuk so?” “Y us; every tims he gres out on his visits he looks as If he has just come out of a vandvox.” “I see. Dressed to kil.” To Dispel Colds. Headaches and Fevers, to cleanse the system effectually, yet gently, when costive or bilious, or when the blood is impure or sluggish, to per- manently cure habitual constipation, to awaken the kidneys and liver to a healthy activity without irritating or weakening them. use Syrup of Figs. s— cnmmssmm— os A AIA ATA The National f.ife Boat Institution last year saved 627 lives from ship- wreck, One Thousand Dollars. 1 will forfeit the above amount, if I fall to prove that Floraplexion is the best medicine in ness. It is & certain cure, and affords immed} slaint, Nervous Debility and Consumption. “loraplexion builds up the weak system and cures where other remedies fall, Ask your druggist for it and get well, Valuable book “Things Worth Knowing,” alse, sample boitle sent free: all charges prepald, Address Franklin Hart, 88 Warren Street New York. It takes 50,000 tons of twine a year to bind the wheat and oa's crop of the coun- try. The confidence of people who have tried #1 jcles. For diseases caused by impure blood or 7 ¥ jow state of the system it is unsurpassed. -—_— The Texas in Randall. Nothing Mysterious About It smallest — Any medicin r compound able to stl torpid liver, kidneys, skin and thereby remove the thickened blood and tality, will four flesh is SRA . The Kentucky Encampment of Grand Army of the Republic has posts, numbering nearly 7,000 mem- bers, The saving g where Dobb’ Elec tric Soap is used, fy (i soap bill It i% no new expe 1 v sions soid 24 years. Today Ju i 5 it.” Your grocer has it or will ord - - A Fair Trial or any affection eaused by impure blood, is sul- ficient to convince any one of the superi 'v cura tive powers of this medicine, Head this: “My d ughter Macy was afilicted with serof- ulous sore neck from the time she was 22 months HUMOROUS, DeAp Bur Nor FORGOTTEN. “Poor Dumley is dead, He pald his i debt to nature.”’ | “I wish he had been as considerate to we.” i | | the size of a pigeon’s eg;, brcame a running sore for over three years, We gave her Hoo U's Sarsaparilla, when the lump and all indications of serofula entirely disappeared.” J. 8. Can LiLE, Nauright, N. J. ’ Hood's Sarsaparilla Sold by alldruggists, #1 : six for #5, Preparedonly by C. I. HOOD & CO, Lowell, Mass, 100 Doses One Dollar, WSN NSN A EETIIAMS PAINLESS -onv-n-- EFFECTUAL. FO BILIOUS 2 NERVOUS DISORDERS, Such as Wind and Pain in the Stomach, Giddiness, Fullness, Swelling after Meals, Dizziness, Drowsiness, Cold Chills, Flushings of Heat, Loss of Appetite, Shortness of Breath, Costiveness, Scurvy, Blotches on the Skin, Disturbed Sleep, Frightiul Dreams and all Nervous and Trembling Sensations, &o. THE FIRST DOSE WILL GIVE RELIEF IN TWENTY MINUTES. Every sufferer is earnestly invited 1o try one Box of these Pills, and they will be acknowledged to be a Wonderful Medicine — Worth a Culnea a Box. Beecham's Pills, taken as directed, will quickly RESTORE 0 FEMALES to complete health. For Sick Headache, Weak Stomach, States, Rupture cure guaranteed by Pa. Ease at once, no operation or lay from business, attested by thou. sands of eures after others fall, free, send for circular, aa ann The production of soap in England is betw: en 3000 and 4500 tons are made In London, Frazer Axle Greases, Don't work your horses to death with poor axle grease; the Frazer is the only re liable make. Use it once, and you will — i p— The baiders of the proposed bridge across the Mississippi river at Burling. ton, Towa, have just contracted for 4- Eines Al Pia mopped free oy Dr. Kilne's Great erve lestorer, No Fuaaleer fret day's ase. Mar. veous cures, ‘Tresiise and $00 rial bolle (ree 0 } cases. Send to Dr. Kine 835i Arca st. Pals. Pa A550 In Iowa the honey crop is a failures and the bees are a'l starving. juice to keep them in good condition. | The hands snd face are kept cloan, | white, soft and supple by the daily use | of lemon instead of soap. It also pre- | vents chilblains, Lemon is used in intermittent fevers, | mixed with strong, hot, black coffee, | without sugar; neuralgia may also be | cured by rubbing the part affected | with cut lemon. fe is valnable also to eure warts, and dandruff on the head, ‘by rubbing the roots of the hair. It will alleviate and finally cure coughs | and colds, and heal diseased lungs, if | taken hot on going to bed at night Its uses are manifold, and the more we employ it internally and externally, the better we find ourselves. Lemon juice is useful in removing tartar from the teeth, anti-febrile, ete. A doctor in Rome 1s trying it experimentally in malarial fever with great success, and thinks it will in time supersede qui- nine, Christian Instructor, Woman. Her Diseases and Their Treat- ment. 72 pages, [lustrated; price 50e, Sent upon reesipt of 100, cost of mailing, ete. Address Prof, Bk. H Krixe, M. D., 1 Arch St, Phila a. A patentee is protected from the use of all p'ans and devices which, however seeming y different from the patented invention, are the same in principle and peration. — J. 0, BIMPRON, Marquess, W. Va, 8! «ital s Cutarch Cure card me of a wory Dad case of eatarrh.” Diuggists sell it, Toe. Prunes are a very profitable crop on the Pacific coast, especially In Oregon ind California, One man in the latter Late expects to realize $10,000 from his crop this season, i MIE in Cann’s Kidney Cure for DH yo Liver Dise Anges ver Diseases, Nerv. &c. Cure g todd. 831 We / and oi'y for stamp for B Ee vl) AXLE FRAZER chEkS: BEST IN THE WORLD. Its wearing qualities are unsurpassed, ae ally outlasting ¢ 0 boxes of any other brand. 4 flaca y heat. A&G HE G FOR SALE BY DEALERS GEN REALLY. NSI Non dd oe Yr B4, Fiiata, Pa. 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The eating sharks, son———————— MurLrirAriovs Duries Biggs “Our forefathers had wives hat were of some account, They could doevery- thing, from the family sewing to driv- fog oxen,” Boggs—**They hemmed and hawed, | a8 It were,” DIoNT MAKE ANY NOISE, ~Sykes— “Suppose your wife should catch you coming home at this late hour?” Chipman —*‘I don’t give a rap.” Sykes —**Oh, that's the way. You | sneak in without making any noiseeh?’’ ———o band (putting the fashionable stringless scrap on her head) —*“Why, really 1 | don’t see what will keep this bonnet ton!” Mr. i her, gl I thik, darling. ——— Younghusband {shopping with " ' ancing at the ticke - 4 110 price, »” “Can’t you pay me sometlinag on bill you owe me?” Debtor —** How much Jeweler—1'd like T0% There is no Medicine like DR. SCHENCK'S ULMONIC SYRUP. doa A cotitain gf opium oranyibl a the Best Cor 5 World ForSele byall Droge Price, $1.00 per bottle. Dr. Bchench's Book on Consumption sod its Cure, mailed free, Add Dr. J. 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OC $716 ease A MONTH oan be made us Persous ferred who a horse and re he | dd CHEMIOAL i Ave, Phila, Eee na FITS 25% TE : Bigg dp fad ® Squid 4 sickle to mower. So don't use scissors! But do if you cut gress ade O should w™ with a pair of scissors! Yet peo Modern has grown scythe and OE — Once there were no soaps.