Scrofula Sores
Afflicted MyWifeforiB Years
Her limbs in places wore one solid scab. Her
armas were very bad and her eyes were affect.
od. She decided to take Hood's Sarsaparilia
and now her skin is smooth; she is cured of
sorofelan.'—M. KE. Stevens, Charlotte Center,
New York. Remember
Hood’s ®:iin
parilla
Is the bast—in fact the One True Blood Purifier.
Hood's Pills
Copied the Name from His Orip.
Mr. Smith, an Hnglish traveler, ar
rived ene evening at a hotel In Austria
Oa the way he had picked up a smart
German and hired bin as & servant
In Austria every one staying at a hotel
is ohliged to register his pame and oc
cupation In a book, which is kept fo
police examination, so Mr. Smith told
Lis servant Fritz to bring this beek for
lim t@ write his name,
“I have already registered milor”
sad Fritz, “as an Knglishman ef inde
pendent means.”
“But I've never told you my nae,
so how do you know what it is?
“4 copied It from millers pertman
temu,” answered Fritz,
“Why, it isn't on my portmanteau,’
eried Mr. Smith;
let we Bee what you uave pul down.”
The book was brought and Mr.Smith.
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"TRUMPET CALLS.
Nam's Horn Dounds a Warning Note
to the Unredeemed,
T takes religloa
with sunshine In jt
to attra~t a child
Bome very large
trees bear very
little fruit,
Winking at sin
will soon ruin the
eye-sight.
A wolf In
sheep's clothing
8 none the less a
wolf.
The rest
is for all who will give up sin.
of
Christ
Every temptation resisted Is a irou
ble escaped.
Nothing Is gained ly starving ti
soul to feed the body.
No man who truly follows
ever hae to stand alone.
ie
Clirist
Every man heips the devil who talks
one way and lives another.
When you pray dowu't forget those
who treat you despitelully.
The best nows ever told |:
world was that God Is love,
Too many start to follow Christ who
gtop at the first crossroads
1 this
The tian who lives a lle has a pack
clever servant had described him as:
“Mensieur Warrauted Sole Leatb
er—The Gripsack.
rset sn
A Aen's Remarkable Fast.
The length of time a hen can sur
vige without food or water Is some
thidg remarkable the
Neptember an farmer
in
ton
About
pal
pla
wl (hio
i
sting lien barrel,
id wn
hen anti]
an empty
He forgot
months afte
find alive
rrel during
“I
’
all
ii
h
th
ree r hie
had
that
food,
restored to
Ww lien
It
all
was surprised to
he ha
visfAbned in t
me without a drop of water or
n a very short time it was
che thoek as well as ever
A LETTER TO WOMEN
From Mrs. James Corrigan.
For seventeen years I have suffered.
Pesdods were so very painful that |
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waonth
He said that had an c:
the womb, and told
must undergo an
paeration, as 1 had
+}
Lae
f
irgrement of
my husband that |
.
tumors in
woah, and it
was a case of
ifé ar death. | -
I was ope-
rated upon
twiee, but it
did not seem -/
todo me any @
vood, it made
me very weak.
I wes troubled
with the leu-
corrhoea a
great deal
I also suffer-
ed with the
sick headache,
vomiting
spells, back-
ache all the
time, terrible pain in my left side, chills.
loss of appetite, and could not sleep
nights, After taking several bottles of
Lydia BE. Pinkham's Vegetable Com-
pound, some Liver Pills, and using your
Sanative Wash, I recovered
I ean eat well, and every one that
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well and feel well. 1 am growing
stronger every day, and am able to go
out and enjoy a walk and not feel all
tired out when I return, as I used to. |
doctored for sixteen years, and in all
those years I did not feel as well as [ do
at the present time. I wish that every
womnan that is troubled as [ was, would
try that medicine. Oh! it is so good
to feel well, and it isall owing to Mrs
Pinkham's kind advice and medicine
Mus Jawrs Corrigan, 284 Center St,
lamaica Plain, Mass.
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t
The best place for a Christian is
needs him most,
Be careful where you step, and those
whe follow yoo will stumble less,
ny men to preacu
the gospel, but nope to defend it
(zod has called ma
Sooner or later every great thought
will make Its way around the world
Improve your time, and you can de
peud upon it
you
sh » tiey i» } ¥ »
toatl une wid improve
There ia such a thing as having
i Lead and not In
ARIVH $
iu (he the
acart
ec————————————
How His Knowlodge Served Him.
In a recent conve with a
of the New York Sun, the Hou
8. Lamont, Re of War
gf =,
learned .
raation
Ianlel retary
remarked hat he had
and ti
had often
i
rapay as a boy, it it
He then to
4
good stead
Lu, story Lilustrat.ng this u
NSevepal ago, after m
h, 1 wanted
to Washington
Years
¥
1 to bring
I was
town In Cortland
for u
al
rile, 1
uy hoine
ty. aud It was NCCesSsAry
a number of raflroads lo order t
the main Hoe by wi
to Washington. It
f bun
'
roacas, ni
leh we were
was also necessary
to change cars wr of times on
these local id in one or two in
stances the trains were late, so that
fear make
oe at
fear i
began to we could pot
onnection
At last
me that unless we
alin connection my
~cmpelled to remain over Sunday in a
mall and cheerless town, | whew to
resident of a rallroad, who, If he were
informed of my predicament,
leved would help me out,
graphed him, telling him
were late, and asked
te
irnins
would telegraph
it became positively known fo
could wake a
mother would
1
©
not the superintend
st ©
5
train on the maln roa
rala
to have th
t arrived
B I
where the
I
ireary
well my
waiting-room
d ny loca
sr til
nn
efore got
§ wis (oo
It
and 1 re
main line train
nes ae CAMw wns
had tv chan
lit sintie nem!
apxiety while xitting in
mother
with ¥
beget r 11
wheter May «i
il
tly
ni
knowing spate
been received, t 1rd cliekin
the wire an
Intendent of
ing
the
“Is Cclonel La
The oper
nly two jx
3
¥
roa
mon TL
oked around the room
ni i
10 see « rsons, my
in ys and immediately
No
J usd
vp and sald:
‘My friend
t word 1
nx Le sen! tia
I hs unintentionally
Ave
line to whether Colonel Lamont
here. That Is my name
The operator quickly
as to
corrected
and Informed the superintendent
word came bach
would be Le
“no.’
that |
that the
for me
wag there, and
main line train
cident, bu
little
demonstrates not only t
in
he
This is ouly a
valine of tel
egraphy, but the possible usefulness
f all practical knowledge that a bo)
I say th every
opportunity
obtain No at 5
the
fan
to learn tel
Once learned
you never forget it. It may be of ses
vice at any and it
give a good ilvelibood,
wlio has
egraphy
should do so
the, will always
= ly #
a 7
57 A -’
=r
\ = = go &
We
*
Vv
wise he will neglec
but if he is
awhile and
take them away
a man away from
The “slight
Many fatal
Sent free.
| WABHINGTON'S BIRIHDAY,
Thrilling bugle, throbbing
banners waving in the air,
dram .bea!
Pomp anl pageant and rejole] 'y
people every where,
y
In the waning of the winter, it of
flash of wing,
And the keeping of a birthday,
chorus
in the {ore
east of the spring,
All our heart new kuit
non's thunders pour
togethe:
Jubllaut snlutings over river, fo
and shore,
While our thouchr g
KH
cradle where there lies
born
Just ua simple new
at's loving eyes,
Basar,
Harper
Vashineton as a Lover.
graphie
ington,
chased of
descendnnts
the Governme
of the
his
by
- served
library of the Department oi
are four poems written in his v
in
ounth ;
| anoanted to more than 3,000,000
| nerer,
nud Families of Virginia,” says
Colonel Cary's 1
addresses to her, but was refused, The
young lady afterward married Mr. ¥d-
ward Ambler, who wes a great swell
among the colonial aristocracy, being
a graduate of Cambridge and the
| owner of n large estate near James
town. He died in 1768, at the age of
(thirty-five, and nie widow, who sur:
{ vived until 1781, was a {frequent guest
|
|
{ marriage, ns his disry shows,
ludes again to Miss Cary,
name 1s unknown, and it reads:
This ean
meeting
|
Wilda a sp
ir uot there whi
wdy Pass
‘hh hops you'll gat
O gs to vou
¥{ shortly
to vo
{ eelv'd any from yourself I hope you'l not
iverb go of sight out
14 Of the greatest Pleasures |
vet foresee of having in Fairfax in often
pe youl not deny it to
4 ‘
pi out
1
of Micd ns 1s
| ean
ne,
I Puss the time of much moen ngresabier
uss where | reside Gaorge Falrfax's
Menxure
loess {
(L010,
foe's Sister) that in a great
Ow unl Cen
1
Wi chienis
Hy sure Lent
them
lhe
of are
other two
original,
manifestly copied
irom Dewspape or
perbap with
or refercoce to their anthorshin,
the boy who wrote the other g
undoubtedly
are
some r INarazZine,
t
rf »
from a book, ut credit
i
two could
have written these,
by the
Eo
will Le
parigo;
Une
aibly
senn glightes
f
Ol tLe origina
i
I to be an ner
a fashionable trick of
1 in those
inivial lelters of the
pame ‘Frances Alexa"
ch
ks
tic, wi was
i3 ®
8 the
lines form
But the poeru is nufinish
ae remainder
it i= written being blank
of the youthfal poet
ably became weary,
of the page ou
1 hie
1
OYEr prob
ILse
lows
The 1:
cate that 1
aut of th
the
uamed
City
Vernon
the
itt
13th of
3
ie nore
contains ao copy, or,
original draft of a friend!y
confidential letter to
Robin,” who wasundoubtedly ayou
fal although be has
never been ‘he original
of this journal is in the library of the
Department of State, baving been
discovered by Mr. Sparks, the his
torian, in 1827, when overhsuliog
chest of 0.d letters and documents at
Mount Vernon in search of
material, In 1834, with a
, and rather
“Dear Friend
is.
a2
schools HOW,
1
identified, 1
a
f
historical
atid in 1802 was printed
literally with copious and valuable
MARTIIA WASHINGTON
! “
J. M. Toner,
the nccomplithed oracle of Washing:
tonia. The letter resides as follows:
My plaen of Residences is at present at His
disengaged, pass my time very
as theres an very agreeable Young
George
Fairfax’s Wife's irter) but as that ¢ only
adding Fuel to fire it makes mo more uneasy
for by olien and unavoidably being in com-
pany with her revives my former passion for
your Lowland Beauty, whereas was [to live
more retired from young women 1 migut a
some measure eliviate my sorrows Ly bary-
ing hat chast and troublesome Passe on inthe
grave of oblivion or entarnall forget fnloses
for as I am very weil assursd that's thas only
pleasantiy,
leived by or only recess that can administer
any cure or help to ma as I am well convinced
was I ever to attempt aaything 1 should only
get a denial which would be only adding
griel to uneasiness,
The sister of Mrs, Fairfax, who re-
vived *‘a former passion” in this youth
of sixteen, was Miss Mary Cary, the
danghter of Colonel Wilson Cary, for
thirty-four years collector of customs
at Hampton, Va, and for the lower
James River. He was a man of large
wealth and aristocratic connections,
bis eldest duughter having married
the cousin of Lord Fairfax and the
wanunsger of his Amer. au estates, waich
i
2
i
i
{
§
i
Parts { conld wah t
wil
i
npra
heart bul
n { wheral a
Min
if tran tions it ar parts whicl
Cie
with |
¢
ire
ie
w
ER C—
Zr
Le
Strat
he mother of
Harrs"
Very
or of
Other
Horwe
* *
fet
AM jun
gs 8 ¥
"EE On
FT mes
to her
$ 1
ianghter
Fredericks
Washington's
nt ue winnd
of
William |
wi
“a int
Dury, } Bls0 3 ared
attentions
The Fauntieror had
Poi,
« Ai fiiteen
Wake el . § gh birth
famile n
on
fic “
the
mos
Woe
plantation at Nav]
ont
place of
0 a 1352, when he was
titer addressed
ars ol i, th» in
a letter to Mr. Fanntivro which bas
asking permission to
%
to Lua
“of
of Marriage
he save,
erael
find an
proposa
daughter,
fa revocalion
“in the hope,”
fo
ot"
of a met fa
i wi
Bot
fteration 10 my favor
This letter was » riiten
mmiediate ly
he
itu his brother
Imwrence, who was in tecble health at
the time, and died soon after. =o the
musi pave bean pro-
nounced before thev saried 10 Septem.
ber, 1701. The father’s reply has not
been preserved, but evidently was un
favorable.
This was the most eerions iove affair
vYoyale
¥
one which euded in hic marriage,
The young woimisn who jilted him,
afterward became the wife of Thomas
Adums of Willmmaburye, Itis a tra.
dition of the town that she married
for mouey iuswend of love, and re
jected Washhugton because be had less |
wealth than her olaer suitor. It is
said, too, that after he had become
famous nod visited $e towa of Will
iamsburg as the guest of the ple,
she watched rom a window i
nmphal pazeaut as he passed on horse
back through ths sireets and fainted.
The home of the Fanntieroys was a
magnificent msusion, which stood
within a Dbeantifnl park overlooking
the river, und rewmsined uatil a few
years since, when it was pulled down.
To Betsy Fanutiervy was addressed
the other or.ginal poem, which reads:
Oh ye Gods why should my Poor Resistioss
earl
Btand to oppose thy might and Power
At Inst sure un or 10 Capid’« feathered Dart
And Bow inves siesta every Hour
Tor her thai's Pu) less of my guel and woes |
| Ana gi) ne
} nome lily take
| 1 Io plow “
my inost invelern's Foes
Ant with Lese pover wis’ to wake
In deluding « sepnh lot my eveiids close
That tu av enrautace § dream I m
A soft intting elosp nad wei oe re
£2 hm ian
ind
4¥
rind
10
i
i {
those joys denis Ly dy
With the volame in whiel: this poem
appenrs was avother, found at the
| ¥stne time and also ‘purchased by the
| Gov: ronment, It bears the title,
| “Forine of Writing,” and eontsins
models of desds, bonds, contracts, re
| ceipis, recipes, bills of sale
toes,
, manifles-
and other commercinl
| papers, together with two poeras. “On
Christinns Day,” and “Irae Happi-
’ These follow a form
uabpoena for Evidences to
Will,” and immediately after them ap
pears a recipe “To Keep luk from
Freezing or Moulding.”
The latter part of
| tains the farnons “RR avility
| by which Washington governed ]
rondnet,
ness,’
“i,
oO
Prove
: y
of the voinme econ
oe
’
nies of (
Four
Betsy
his affair with
Washiugton
vears after
Fauatieroy,
day alter she accepted Washingio
{ #he planted a yew treo in the gardes
[behind “the siz chimney house,” 8
symbol! of devotion aul cousisteney,
i
A ——————
the daughter of a prominent and
wenithy Eoglishmau, Frederick
Phillipse, who lived in a superb man-
sion on the bank of the Hudson, near
| West Point.
{ Boston in 1756 he this
lady a
jaw,
1
IV
met
s
¢
Colonel Beverly Robinson, whe
d in the same loeality. After
W be propored
formed that
ni
Arry at othe 7
OC
is’
and
wa
AW acquaintsnes
to her, was frankly
sue engaged to m
ihe successial
»
THE YOUNG WASHINGTON,
2 marriage took place at the resi-
deace of the bride on January 17,
{ 1749—about six months after the first
meeting —and the ceremony was fdi-
bry reception. Washington
ing a session o House
t Williamsburg, thea
reins, aud at its close,
s wile and ber two lit-
ftir r y
Iount Vernon.
lowed n
45
vi
was attend
f Burg
the capital of
rem with }
tio « ren to
In the following Seq
©
CEECE RnR
Vi
ved
11}
tember he wrote
“i
i hig ccusin
itation to visit Kogland :
Richard, decl
it~
«5d
tiie seal,
life. And
I ret ireaaent
wiid, bas
atisfied
his
The uns
children of
resrning to have
was frequently
in letters te
Washingt was de-
pehildren, and loved te
"and Nellie Custis
own
but
x wie
| friends, n
voted
have | Catsv
of In-
Faee
irigue and Privation.
1 were
hile at Valley Forge, in
get something te
ing to cover them 1a that
on — not because there were
plies, but becanse Congress had
COMM mIiseary depart-
seldom reached
uniry had not been
the war.
everywhere
ily reaped, and there
to do the work of
harvest. It was only
Yering for lack of
The naked fact
the confederacy was falling
government. Local
i overmastered National
feeling, aud only a few men like Wash-
held the breaking structure
Washington's steadfastness
an 18 army
oO
r anvil
v
Diller sea
y1al1e
¥v
ricien ti
were
ana
the army that was suf
’
food and lazk of
y
i
was that Lt} nf
apart for lack of
18a ns 3
sellishness ha
ington
together,
DD MARTHA
like Washington, wae nid to!
in
Bn
4
,
he fatal Irdian
campnign,
Mise Phillipse was two years
than Washington, having Leen born
at Yonkers, July 5, 1730. Her hus-
older
Bev
rovalists
the lation, aud ber family were
ia Mre. Morris |
and her sister, Mra. Robinson, were
cused of acting as spies for the
British, were arrested snd imprisoned,
d
1778
ae
and their property was confiscated.
¥
was in the Phillipse house that |
Benedict Arnold was residing when he |
he look the boat which car
him into the British lines when
his treachery was discovered. Mme.
Jumel, the French woman who married |
Aaron Burr, afterward purchased the
estate and lived upon it |
. years after Washington was
ilted Ly Miss Phillipse, and when he
hai returned from Fort dad
Onesne, he went to Williamsburg in |
wilitary dress attended by an orderly.
While crossing Williams's Ferry over |
the Pamanky River,a branch of the
York, he was accosted Ly a venerable
gentieman named Chamberlavn, who!
had learped bis identity, and invited |
to rest for a while at his house in the |
neighborhood. Washington at fire
gleciined, ns his business with the Gov- |
erpor at Williamsburg was urgent, bat |
finally consented to stop for dinner.
Having arrived at the hospitable man-
sion, be wae introduced to tha family
aud a uamber of guests, among them |
a charming and beantifal widow who |
Theres was a mutual
attraction, and iastead of departing
immediately after dinner Washington |
remained through the afternoon, and |
finally consented to pass the night. |
In the morning he proceeded upon his
way, and having transacted his basi
uess at Williamsburg, returned to Mr.
and spent several
“0
Mes
{
The beaniiful widow was Martha
Dandridge Castis, the daaghter of
John Dandridge, whose hinsband, Dan-
ici Parke Castis, died a year or so
previous, leaving her two children
and a large fortune in lands aud
money. She was born in New Kent
County in 1732, was married at seven-
teen, and when Washington first met
her was twenty-six years old, and in
the richest bloom of womanhood. Bhe
had a fine residence ot Williamsburg
«'‘the e#ix chimney house” it was
ealled-—and a plantation near the sity,
with $100,000 of bemis and mortgages
in ber strong box. It is =aid that the
ton, stanch lady that she was, joined
even at Valley Forge. The in-
trigue against him he watched in stern
silence till it ripe sud evident,
crushed it with sudden ex-
ham
was
when he
posure, and turned away in contempt,
an
FORGE,
hardly so mueh as menticning it in
his letters to his friends. “Their own
artless zeal to advance their views has
destroved them, he said. His soldiers
he succored and supplied as he could,
himself sharing their privations, and
earning their love as he served them.
the incomparable patience and fidelity
of the soldiers.” — Harper's Magazine.
Washiagtion Setting a Post,
In the village of Southport, Conn.,
is preserved a piece of cedsr post
which Washington helped to set in the
The story ns-
Rev. A. N. Lewis in a published ad-
dress.
He was out walking with his host
ing a hitching posi in the ground by
the roadside. The General stopped
and said:
“My friend, I can show yon how to
set your post so that it will never rot.”
Taking 18 in his hands—those great
bands of his-—he placed it apside dows
aud held it while the man filled up the
hole and stamped the earth around it
It is a well-known fact that a post
set bottom side up in the ground will
not absorb water. The sap tabes will
not “draw” when the post is reversed.
A A SAHA SAA,
antod to Be Like George.
Willie Littisboye=: wish I had
been George Washington.”
Papa "Why so, my sont”
Willie—*""Why, papa, he couldn't
tell a lie, and so when he was visiting
way ea if he —onid like another
ieee | sastead of ea no
the sake of being hae udder
truth and enid yes.” :