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-A PACE ROYAL CITT.
One Koted Spot Where English Eings
Once Held Their Court
SOME VERY HTERESTIKG BULKS.
The Cathedral in Which Philip of Spain
and Queen Mary TVed.
COXTRASTIKG THE PAST AND PEESEKT
rwarrrxs ron, the disfatcu.1
FIFTX-FOUR
miles west of Lon
don, on the old
Itoman road which
still marks the
conqueror's steps,
in a direct line
from Beading and
Tomb of Bufru. Basingstoke, on
ward to the stronghold of Sarum and Bath,
in a hollow along the pleasant streams of
the Itchen, lies the once royal city of "Win
chester. It has dwindled down now to a
third rate country town of 18,000 people,
and as we walk from the railway station,
half a mile off, by a straggling row of small
villas and a score of small, dingy shops,
down hill all the -way, one can hardly be
lieve we are actually entering the city
where "William the Norman once ruled
with royal splendor, where the Angevian
line ot kings lived and died; Bichard, the
Xiionhearted, after his escape from prison,
was received with shouts of welcome, and
where "William of "Wykeham completed
one of the noblest cathedrals in England
and built and endowed the old college and
school of St. Mary, A. D. 1382, which ranks
with the royal foundations of Eton and
"Westminster.
The town is built on the side of a hill and
slopes down into the valley, and through
the center of it, as a backbone, runs the
main, or High street, from which most of
the others branch away into many dismal
windings. It is a place of many small and
dingy churches some of great antiquity
of many hospitals and refuges for the aged,
sick and poor. It possesses a free public
library and reading room, a Town Hall
(brand new), the ruins of a goodly castle
built by the Norman Conqueror, whereof the
reat hall still stands, and where may still
e seen King Arthur's round table, which
was regarded as a curiosity in the days of
Henry YL Its charter,as a corporate body,
dates back for 700 years, to the far-off days
of Henrv II., who here feasted his friendly
ally Malcolm, King of Scotland, as well as
the Duke of Saxony, whose wife, Maud,
gave birth to a son from "whom sprang the
present royal family of England.
IN AXCIK3TT TIMES.
On St. Giles hill, outside the city, for
many a long century was held the famous
fair which brought merchants, traders and
visitors from every part of Europe. The
streets of booths stretched far across the
hills, and down into the valley, all the way
up to the famous ""West Gate," a strong
hold built by King Stephen and still stand
ing. But, in spite of all this, and a score of
other such attractions, in these davs of life
and progress the old city seems but half ',
awake. An air of fusty, mustr. dusty, second-hand
furniture and inferior goods,
reigns supreme over the streets, the shops
and the faces of the natives.
Go into Punter's musical depot and you
will feel stagnation creep over you in a
trice. Punter receives you gravely, with a
slow bow, as if to say, "Don't be in a
hurry." "I called," you say, "to ask if the
music ordered last week has arrived?"
"Music, sir, was it vocal or instrumental?
Wyke7iam't Chantry.
I don't quite recall it a week ago, sir?"
"Yes, a lull week; it was a song of Blumen
thal's words by Shelly." A silence of
three minutes ensues, during which Punter
slowly examines the pages of an ancient
day book, and then solemnly delivers him
self of an idea: "Our London parcel didn't
come down last week, sir, and so you see,
sir, the song has not yet reached us. No
doubt we shall have it in our next parcel
in the course of a few days say Saturday,
without fail." As to-day is Tuesday and I
can get it on Thursday fiy post by writing
to London to-night, I thank Punter and de
cline his offer.
Fifty yards higher up the hill is Dump,
the hair dresser's, who occasionally trims
xny'flowing locks. Dump's emporium has
the college arms over the doorway, on an
antique signboard, and embraces cricket
bats, balls. 'hockey and galf sticks, cutlery,
soap of at least four kinds, three sponges,
two umbrellas and Mechi's razor strop. The
shop is about 12 yards by 10, with a short
strip of counter on one side, opposite to
which, in the corner, a small square of
space is boxed ofi, with one door opening
behind the counter and another into the do
main of customers. This inner chamber is
the sanctum sanctorum, where all the mys
teries of brush, comb, scissors and razors
( are conducted precisely as Dump achieved
them SO years ago.
BUSINESS ACOXVIXT.
As I enter, the artist himself hastily
emerges from that sacred nook, bald, rosy
cheeked, oily and loquacious. "He is en
gaged at this moment," he says, "but will
be at liberty in about 20 to 25 minutes, if I
-will take a seat or call again. It's a
, 'Cathedle'gentasheisengagedon." Punter
and Dnmp may be taken as types of nine
tenths of the "Winchester shopkeepers; ob
sequiously polite, profuse in promises and
not to be relied on. Punter wasted a fort
night in not getting the song, and Dump,
when I called again, was busy on another
'cathedle' pericranium. Most of the goods
sold in this habitat of Kings, Archbishops,
Cardinals, warriors, nobles -and statesmen
are poor in quality and a costly as if first
rate. "Weary of Punter & JCo., I turn down
the hill again, and passing by the beautiful
market cross there set up in the days of the
Gecond Henry, stroll down through the close
to the gates of the great Cathedral of St,
Mary. It is in the form of a mighty cross,
with a massive square tower rising above
the vast mass of building at the point where
the nave intersects the transepts, and covers
an acre and a half of ground. I enter the
grand and silent nave, and look down
through the lofty arched pillars to the far-off
altar at the east end. They tower to the
height of 80 feet above you, and fade away
into the gray and delicate tracery of the
carved stone roof. From where you stand
to the huge white cross above the altar is a
long flight of 250 feet, the nave being the
.longest among all the English cathedrals.
It was down this very nave that on July
8, 15M, a long train of nobles, headed by
,H
ifl
the bishop, marched in proud array to the
western door to meet Philip of Spain, who
had come posthaste from Southampton to
meet Mary, the Queen, whom he here mar
ried the next day, in all royal splendor. In
the Lady Chapel may still be seen the chair
once blessed by the Pope in which she
sat on that first day of her miserable mar
ried life. v
A EOYAL WEDDING.
Here, also, in 1403, was another royal and
splendid wedding, that of Henry the IY to
Joan of Jfavarre, the officiating priest being
that proud Cardinal Beauort (the king's
half brother), whose magnificent tomb and
chantry yet remain to tell of his greatness.
All round us, as we pace the transept, are
the silent monuments of past glory. Here
lie the ashes of Kings, warriors, saints,
nobles, poets and prelates, of St. Swithin
(A. D. 800), of watery and Episcopal fame;
ot Bufus, the Bed King, whose body,
still pierced by the fatal arrow of
"Walter Tyrrel, was brought back to the
Abbey whence he had gone out to hunt;
Egbert the Saxon. Canute and his Queen
Emma, with a host of others, until we come
down to the days of Sam "wilberforce, that
dexterous and oily Bishop of "Winchester,
whose fame is known in many lands.
But, besides all these great ana mignty
ones, whose fame is silently fading as the
centuries go by, there is a host of others
whose names are yet immortal in the annals
of the old country. It is here in this old
faded, once royal city that lies buried the
prince of all anglers, honest, quaint, de
lightful Isaac Walton. It was in "Win
chester that heroic Baleigh was, at the in
stigation of a tyrant, brought to trial for
treason, and nobly withstood the fury of the
foul-mouthed judge. Coke. Kot far from
here was it that Henry "VTL, that much
married man "the model prince," says
HVniirte? "that WnL" rav Dickens, "of
blood and grease" waited for tidings of
ill-fated Anne JJoleyn's deatn. tnnt ne
f might marry Jane Seymour. Here in the
market place one Alice Jisie was oeneaaea
in 1685 lor harboring "Hicks, the Dissent
ing Preacher," by order of the infamous
Judge Jeffreys, after being twice acquitted.
Here it was that, after Naseby fight, one
Oliver Cromwell stormed and destroyed the
castle and laid waste and ravaged "all the
fair beauty," he said, "of painted windows
and shrines;" and here lived Ken, the Bish
op who got his bishopric by refusing a lodg
ing to poor Hell Gwynne and his greater
fame by writing the Evening Hymn, sung
by all" Christians in every clime and lan
guage. BUBNED AT THE STAKE.
Here, in the market place, close at hand,
was one infamous Mary Bagley tied to a
stake and burnt to ashes for the murder of
her husband in 1789, being the latest burn
ing of that kind done in England. And,
hither, to this same old sleepy city, a hun
dred vears earlier, came Taylor, the fa
mous ""Water Poet," who wrote thus of it:"
"I saw an ancient city, like a body without
a soul; there being as many parishes as peo
ple, and all dead."
Before leaving it, let us stroll for a mo
ment into the public market honse, on this
the market day of the week. A square,
dingy-looking building, with a slated roof;
150 lect long; and apple' stall at the en
trance, and lower down by the wall two old
women selling eggs
and poultry and
withered vegetables.
The whole ot the
rest of the space
taken up by piles
of moldy, second
hand furniture, and
awav in the corner.
set up on a chest of
drawers, a tall cage Queen ilary't Chair.
of twisted wire, in which sat a woe-begone,
desolate, old gray parrot, stripped of al
most every feather that should have cov
ered his naked wings, breast and tail. As I
looked at him with pitiful eyes, who should
come up to me but a brisk, little, wiry man,
who had left his autograph just above my
own in the Cathedral "Visitors' Book, as
Elijah. Chaff, Boston, TJ. S." (as much, I
fancy, from Boston as the present writer).
ATASKEE ABROAD.
"Sir," said Elijah, "a downright caution
is that melancholy fowl! you bet."
"I don't betv" said I, "but more miser
able fowl I never set eyes on."
"He's like" nothin' on airfhgso much as
that immortal parrit of Artemus "Ward's.
Never heard of him? "Wal! Artie, ye see,
kep a monkey, and a uncommon clever of a
talking parrit, and for a month or so they
was good friends and thick as hieves. So,
one day, he opens the cage door, lets out
Eoll and leaves the two together. Comes
omc an hour later, finds Jacko asittin' up
on a cheer grinning and a chatterin' with a
bunch of long grey feathers astuck behind
his ears and poll in his cage again, with the
door drawed hard and fast, as silent and
grim as death, but as naked and bare as a
frog's back.
,f,Why, Poll, says Artie, 'what's come to
you? "What infernal game is it?' But not
the ghost of a word could he get out of him;
him that talked by the yard, you betl
Then straight for Jacko went Artie; but he
had skedaddled and left no tracks. 'Poll
poor Poll 1' again says his master, 'was it
that infernal Jacko ?'
"Then, at last, was that bird's tongue un
loosed. 'We've had,' slowly and sadly
ejaculated Poll, 'we've had a of a time
of it!'
"And if." went on Elijah, "there's mon
key enough left in this old, dead-alive, de
fnnct town to do it, thar, in that corner, is
the parrit that's past prayin' for." ,
0EIGIN OP LYNCH WW. N
A Revolutionary Hero" Wlio Applied tueLavr
of Force to Rognos.
It is not generally known that the term
"lynch law" originated in Campbell county,
Va., before the Bevolutionary "War. At
that period the country was thinly settled
and was infested with Tories and despera
does too many of them, apparently, for the
local authorities to adequately pun
ish. Colonel Charles Lynch, a dis
tinguished officer of the revolu
tionary army, undertook to rid his coun
try of the outlaws. He organized a force,
arrested the ontlaws, and having satisfied
himself and comrades of the guilt of the
accused, executed -them without reference to
the constituted authorities. "While not alto
gether approving of the desperate remedy
for a desperate cause, the benefical effect of
Colonel Lynch's action wis recognized, and
has since been known as "Lynch's Law"
or "Lynch law."
Lynch's process of meting out speedy
justice extended to other parts of the
country, and is- a well recognized form of
redress of grievances to-day, particularly
for that class of offences that are popularly
believed not to be adequately punished bv
the statutes and courts of the State. Col
onel Lynch's brother gave his name to
Lynchburg, and left a son who was subse
quently Governor of Louisiana.
THE MEANEST MAN IN CKEATI0N.
An Alabama Editor Tulnkn Be 13ns
Bis
Kame on Bis Snscriptlan List.
Llnevlllc (Ala. ) Democrat.
A man living in Clay who owes us over
two years' subscription, put his paper back
in the postoffice last week marked "re
fused." "We have beard of many mean
men. There is the man who used the wart
on his neck for a collar button, the one who
pastured a goat on his grandmother's grave,
the one who stole coppers from a dead
man's eyes; the one who got rich by giving
his five children a nickel each to go to bed
without supper and then stealing the nickel
after the children were asleep; but for pure'
downright meanness, the man who will
take the paper for years, mark it "refused,"
and then stick it-back into the postoffice is
entitled to the first premium.
Wedding Screens.
The latest things in awnings for weddings
and receptions is a curtain that is drawn
just back of the passage which is to allow
the foot travelers who are not going to the
wedding to go on their way. "While wait
ing for her .carriage my lady has no longer
to undergo the penetrating stare of the rab
ble, for the before-mentioned curtain com
pletely hides her, '
THE
TEAMING A BIG 'UN.
in n
John I. Sullivan Tells How Be Pre
pares to Fight a Bdttle.
FOOD AND EXERCISE TAKEN.
A lighter's Feelings 'After Beceiving
Punishment.
WHY PUGILISM HAS LOST ITS EEPUTE
An authorized shorthand Interview, revised
and signed by John L. Sullivan.
For my coming fight with Kilrain, until
very lately, I had intended to train at a lit
tle place not far from New Orleans. "That
section of the country is very familiar to
me, for it was at the same place I trained
for my fight with Byan, some six years ago.
The climate there is good, the ground is
dry, the place free from malarial affections
and the thermometer seldom ranges above
90 degrees or goes below 32. But I have
lately changed my mind, and I shall train
nearer home.
I will give as careful a description of my
course of training as I can. Here is what I
go throughvery day from the 15th of May
until the dayjjf the fight:
I get up about G o'clock and start out on
a five-mile walk. "When I return from that
exercise I am rubbed down with a coarse
towel and rest for about half an hour; then
I am ready for breakfast. That meal con
sists of chops or beefsteak and a cup of weak
tea. I am not allowed to drink coffee, be
cause coffee has a tendency to make a man
bilious. Tea, if it is not too strong, and you
don't drink too much of it, is good for the
nerves. Did you ever notice that nearly all
Seople who have grown to an old age have
een very fond of their cup ot tea? I think
that fact proves that tea is a good thing for
the human system.
After breakfast I sit around awhile, read
the newspaper or chat with my trainer, and
then for half an hour I exercise with two-
found dumb-bells or swing a small pair of
ndian clubs. I also skip a rope. That
may seem a very -womanish exercise and the
statement may make some people smile, but
the fact is that skipping the rope is an ex
cellent exercise for limbering up the joints,
most every joint in your body receives bene
fit. I believe that such exercise is excellent
for young girls, though they have a tendency
to overdo it, in which case, of course, it is
very harmful. Another exercise I indulge
in at this time is punching the football,
which is suspended by a rope from the ceil
ing. All these exertions occupy the time
until the dinner hour. They arc continued
pretty constantly one after tee other, slowly
and easily, and not to the degree of fatigue.
A. TEATNING DINNER.
For dinner I eat roast mutton, roast beef
or roast chicken. I eat only the lean of the
meat at this or any meal; the fat is cut off
and thrown aside. 1 consider chicken,broued
or roasttd, good food; the meat is dry and
somewhat strengthening. There is no choice
between roast beet and mutton, one is as
good as the other. After resting a while
after dinner I go out on mylong walk and
run for a distance of 20 miles I walk and
run, alternately. This is the most severe
exercise of the day and has for itl object the
strengthening of the legs and the 'wind.
"When I come in from the long run I am
rubbed down with a coarse towel, after
which I jump into abrthtnb with salt in
the water, or, if I am in a neighborhood
where there is sea-bathing, I take the ben
efit of that; I also let the water run over me
in a shower. Then I am' rubbed dry with a
coarse hand towel, after which my trainer
rubs me down with his bands always rub
bing in a downward direction, not both
ways. The object of this rubbing
is to harden the flesh; if yon rubbed both
ways instead of one it would have a ten
dency to make the flesh sore, because under
this high training the flesh becomes ery
sensitive until, under proper treatment, it
begins to harden. By this time it is 6
o'clock. After dressing myself in ordinary
costume I pass away the time for an hour in
reading or chatting, and then I have a good
appetite for supper. That is not such a
heavy meal as breakfast or dinner. I gen
erally eat a little cold chicken, some dry
bread (I always eat the bread dry) and
drink a bowl of weak tea. As a rule I eat
no dessert, though I am sometimes allowed
a little rice pudding. I don't smoke or
drink any kind of liquor, though for dinner
I sometimes take a bottle of Bass' ale. That
drink, taken In a very moderate quantity at
the noon meal, I consider beneficial; it is,
to a certain extent, strengthening. I go to
bed at 9 o'clock and, it is almost needless to
say, I enjoy a good night's rest.
Now the reason I don't eat fat is because
fat makes it. The object of training is to
get rid of your surplus fat, to develop your
muscles and to harden your flesh, and to get
what fighters call your "wind" all right.
An ordinary man cannot run up a" flight of
stairs, or three or four blocks, without being
"winded." It makes no difference how
strong a man may be, if his "wind" gives
out easily he is powerless. A man can re
duce his weight by sweating, but the proper
way is to reduee your weight by exercise
and harden your flesh by rubbing. Of
course it is necessary to take sweats; they
help a man; but you cannot rely upon them
altogether.
THREE GOOD "itfEALS.
Again, as to eating, I do not eat a large
quantity of food, but I eat three good meals
during the day. And I eat food that is
adapted.to make strength. I don't indulge
in what the cooks call "palate ticklers," I
suppose many business men cat more than
I do, but I don't think their appetite can be
a healthy one. Then, again, they eat a
light breakfast, a moderate lunch and con
sume a large meal at the close of day.
People sometimes express surprise that
prise-fighters recover so quicklv from the
punishment they receive in a fight. After
the fight is over the fighter is given a hot
bath, that takes the soreness out of him and
keeps the blood in circulation. If he has
bruises the blood hasn't time to congeal.
For very bad swellings the tincture of
iodine is used. If your eyes are all bunged
up you simply apply hot water, just as hot
as you can bear, and that will soon rednce
them to their natural state. I suppose the
great secret of the fighter's quick recovery
is the fact that he is in such a high state of
health; nature does most of the work. They
say if you cut an Indian with a hatchet I
mean a strong, healthy Indian that hasn't
been soaked in bad whisky the wound will
heal of it itself in a few days. Give a white
man the same kind of blow and it will kill
him.
A fighter don't feel so bad while battling;
he is in a state of activity and the excite
ment helps to keep him up. After the fight
he feels stiff and sore. Between the rounds
his mouth is sponged out to prevent saliva
from gathering and sticking in his throat;
he is freshened up by ice water applied to
his head just behind the ears with a sponge;
this is a very sensitive part of the head and
there the application is especially benefi
cial. Stimulants are sometimes given, but
it depends on the condition of the man. If
he is weak they will give him a swallow of
brandy and Vichy water; brandy is used
because it is quicker in its action than
whisky.
THE SEVEN SCIENTIFIC BLOWS.
I am sometimes asked to give a scientific
description of the fistio art. I don't know
that any man can do that any more than
one man can tell another how to succeed in
life. There area good many things to 'be
taken into consideration, and yon have to
consider them and decide upon them quick
ly at the time, and one man's judgment
may lead him to act one way and another
man's judgment may lead him to act in an
entirely different manner. In boxing it
may be said, however, that there are only
seven scicutifio blows and seven parries.
These blows are, first, on the right side of
the face with the left hand; second, on the
left side of the face with the right hand;
third, on the left pit of the stomach with
tha left hand; fourth, on the left tide of
PITTSBtlKGr DISPATCH,
your opponents', ribs with the right'hand;
fifth, on the right side ot his ribs with yonr
eft hand; sixth, directly at the center of
he face, covering, if the fist is sufficiently
large, the chin, throat, nose and both eyes.
This is considered what the boys call a
"daisy" blow when well given. Seventh,
the upper cut with the right This blow
strikes under the chin, and if the other man
carries his tongue between his teeth it is
bad for the tongue. There is another blow
called the "chopper" raising the right
hand up and bringing it down with crush
ing force on the bridge of -your antagonist's
"smeller." It would take too long to give a
description of the parries.
Speaking of pugilism generally, I would
sav that men are, vou may say. forced into
prize-fighting. The outside public are not
satisfied with exhibitions with the gloves,
which become too tame, and they force a
good man to fight with bare fists. Many
people seem to think a boxer cannot be at
tne top or tne neap unless ne ujjuis witn
bare knuckles, although a man can do just
as fine work with the gloves, as I think I
have shown heretofore. I think there are
very few fighters who would not just as soon
fight with the gloves as withont them, but,
as I say, the sporting public and the gen
eral public interested in athletic matters
force men into matches.
PUGILISTS IN PBITATE LIFE.
In private life prizefighters, as a rule, are
quiet, well-behaved men. Quarrelsome
people often try to force them into disturb
ances, but it will be noticed that they sel
dom use their strength in private rows; on
the 'contrary, they continually try to avoid
disturbances. If prize-fighters were brutal
by nature they would continually be en
gaged in such disturbances. Of course,
they may occasionally show their weak,
nesses and display a convivial spirit, but I
suppose merchants and brokers do the same
thing every day in the week, only, the
people not being well known, stujh things
are not considered of sufficient importance
to get into the capers.
Pugilism has had a late and eloquent de
fender in the Hon. Chauncey M. Depew.
In his speech at the reception to the Ameri
can ball players, he said:
"I have read withi some interest lately
the writings of a philosopher who sometimes
approaches the truth, that this year can
mark the march of civilization of araoeor
a decadence by the interest which any na
tionality takes in pugilism. Then it is said
that the civilization of the East is a despot
ism because they have no pugilism. , Ire
land.can never be crushed, no matter what
her adversity, for among her sons there are
not only men of eloquence and genius but
great pugilists. And England, too, with
her literature and progress, has also some
good pugilists. But when we come to the
home of genius and culture in American
Boston we find the great pugilist,"
He added that the nations of the world
which are most interested in manly sports
fcre the English speaking race, and they
are the nearest people to freedom in their
institutions. There is considerable interest
in pugilism in England. The Prince of
"Wales, Lord Clifford, the Marquis of
Queensberry and the majority of the young
lords wh6 travel around with the Prince
like to see a good stand-up fight. But I do
not think pugilism Is .any more popular
over there than it is here; I don't think they
have as many fights there. The majority of
the fights they have take place in London;
they 'are glove contests and are limited to 12
rounds. J. used tne -Frince ot Wales.
There were no "airs" about him and he
seemed to be a man of the people. On the
race track where I met him he looked and
acted like an ordinary, brisk business man.
THE "SATUEDAT BEVIEW'S" IDEA.
A certain English paper not long ago
made such a fair statement on the general
subject of pugilism that I thought it worthy
of seeping, and I would like the item put
in print. It is from the London Saturday
Review, which, I believe, is a paner that
stands high in the newspaper world. The
writer says: ,"
"There has been a great deal of nonsense
talked about prize' fighting -ever since the
time it was practically otraoised in England.
Nothingcan, for instance, be more absurd
than to suppose that the physical pain or
torture suffered by pugilists in the ring is
materially greater than that endured by
men wno engage in otner severe bodily com
petitions. "When one man is pitted against
another in any prolonged trial of strength
and endurance, combined with skill, the
evil which he fears and which eventually
makes him or his opponent succumb, is
purely and simply the feeling of utter ex
haustion by which he is precluded from
continuing the struggle. No one, of course,
likes to be smitten on the nose or in the
mouth. The sensation is unpleasant even to
the most hardened pugilist; for the theory
that familiarity breeds contempt is hardly
more true of the prize fighter and his
wounds than it is of the storied eels and
their sufferings while undergoing the pro
cess of flaying. But, to suppose that the
pugilist strikes his flag, or, more properly
speaking, throws up his sponge, because he
thinks that his nose is becoming sore, or be
cause he feels pain in his ribs, is to mistake
altogether the whole character of a contest
of strength between two highly trained
pugilists. The punishment received in the
ring differs in kind, but not in essence from
the punishment suffered by a running man,
when, alter doing all he knows, he feels his
strength ebbing away and falls out of the
race because nature refuses him the force
necessary to retain the lead. The best
judges of the inhumanity of a fight, as far
as the principles are concerned, must surely
be the principals themselves, and not one of
these will say that they see any more in
humanity in it than in a long-distance
race."
EUINED BY OPPOSITION.
People sometimes say, the same paper
argues, that the prize ring is a resort for
roughs and blacklegs. Suppose you should
try to crush any other athletic sport make
fencing or baseball playing an indictable
offense you would find that buch contests
would be frequented by an inferior class of
people.
I deny, however, that prize fights are only
witnessed bv rouchs and bad characters?
.there are a very large number of solid, sub
stantial men banters, brokers, merchants
and editors of prominent newspapers nho
jicc iu us uu uanu wnen mere is a good
"mill" coming off.
How long a prize fighter may retain his
strength depends very much on his constitu
tion. A man may remain a good one until
he is 35 or 40 years of age. Prize fighters
ljve to a pretty fair age, as is proved by the
list ot some of the famous men in that line:
Horn. Died, imii
UVUU litUUIJUHJU. HJIU)
Tom Johnson...... ...1750
Daniel Mendoza.........,...17(3
John Jackson 17(9
Jem Belcher. 1781
Tom Belcher 1783
John Gully 17!:8
Tom CribU. 1781
Tom Spring 1795
Jem. Ward 1800
Bendigo (Wm. Johnson).. ..1811
Ben Chaunt 1815
BUI Perry (Tipton Slasher).lS19
Tom Bayers 1823
Jem Mace 1831
Tom Kine 1838
1789 85
1787 47
lbS8 73
1845, 76
1811 SO
ISM 71
1863 80
1818 67
1851 .66
1885 85
1880 63
1861 43
1881 62
1SG3 SS
S3
1888 52
John L. Sullivan.
The Canvasser Ahead.
Mr. Overplus (tho bank President, open
ing his roll top in the morning) "What's
this?
Ipstcin De desg vas net locged, so I got
me injroost alter you lefd last night, mein
frient, unt I valted. I hef der life ohf Vash
ington in two volumes, ver sheep. Puck.
STJNDAT, ' MAT. ' 19,
BEAUTIFUL YISTAS.
y
Conservatories of To-Day Arranged
for Decorative Purposes and
ARE NOT 'SIMPLY FOR FLOWERS.
A Talk, With a Florist Who Rents Flowers
to filch Men.
FASHIONS IN FLOWERS NEW AND OLD
rmrmn ron the dispatch.
In that very entertaining" play, "Captain
Swift," at the Madison Square Theater, ap
plause inevitably greets the rise of the cur
tain on the third act as it follows the
tonching scene between Mrs. Booth and Mr.
Barrymore at the curtain's fall. This popu
lar favor Is deserved. The stage setting is a
conservatory, and is not only an instance of
fine jit age effect, but it exemplifies for our
purposes the conservatory in its latest aspect,
which is as a decorative feature of an inter
ior, and not a place to cultivate flowers even
as an elegant accomplishment.
The conservatory in "Captain Swift" is
composed of indented arches, arranged in a
semi-circle making email alcoves. In the
center is one still more recessed, where
stands a diminutive goddess, before whom a
veiled light burns as before a shrine. There
are no flowers, but the scene painter has ad
mirably simulated in each of the small al
coves palms, India rubber plants and other
tropical foliage. The tiled center is left
free. Here are wicker chairs, lounge and
table. It is a place for quiet companion
ships, cigars, coffee and comfort, and in the
purposes of the play serves exactly the same
mission as in private life.
Another example in kind has been too
prominently exploited in the newspapers to
have escaped notice. It is the conservatory
in a recent novel, "Hermia Suydam." The
description will bear retelling. "The green
trees of the floor were painted with a rank
growth of grasses and ferns. Through the
palms and tropical shrubs that crowded the
conservatory glared the wild beasts of far
off jungles marvelously stuffed and poised.
The walls were forgotten behind a tapestry
of reeds and birds of the Orient. In one
corner was a fountain simulating a pool, and
on its surface floated the pink, fragrant
lilies that lie on Eastern lakes."
SCENIC EFFECTS.
The prominence which has been given to
this conservatory was due to its supposed
exaggeration, and-was intended to indicate
the writer's unbridled imagination; but the
illustration was badly chosen. As a whole
it is exaggerated, but' the details barring the
stuffed beasts and painted floor, can be
found in one or another of the different con
servatories in town.
The conservatory as a detail in a city
house is always an attempt to render a cer
tain decorative effect, not, to be sure, in
every case so fierce and tropical as that
described, but having some relation to the
rest of the honse. It belongs to the en
semble, and is ordered with reference to the
rooms with which it is in relation.
The most artistic purpose of the conserva
tory is the perfection and culmination of a
vista. To counterfeit, to simulate space in
a city house is the desire of every architect
and every owner. To do this has taxed their
resources and their ingenuity. Nothing so
well serves this purpose as the conservatory,
for the eye loses in the foliage massed at the
back, which may extend, the mind lending
to the illusion, to unknown depths. To this
some such scenic effect as the drop curtain
of the Madison Square Theater may even be
called in.
In Mr. Vanderbilt's home the conserva
tory is immediately baok of the main gal
lery and is entered at the side from the sec
ond gallery. The main gallery connects
through the open passage that serves for
water colors, with tne square central hall.
This in turn connects with the drawing
room. Here, from drawing room to the
conservatory, is a vista of 200 feet, propor
tions in a New York house which are truly
magnificent, and whioh are enriched by
supurb draperies, columns of marble, carv
ings, color and works of art. The conserva
tory is semUolrcular, The floor is mosiac,
and the walls paneled in cream enameled
tiles. There are no shelves tor there is no
floral cultivation.
TBOFICAL FXOBA.
Gigantio palms, ferns, all manner of
broad leaved, curious, bizarre, grotesque
plants with impossible names standround in
pots and jars that are grouped to perfect the
view from the vantage point of the distant
drawing room. These pots and jars aro in
themselves works of art; majolica, Spanish
lustra. Japanese bronzes, old terra cotta.
museum spoils, all are none too good for the
beautiful scene. Here and there hang
orchids, and before the sheet of plate glass
that makes the sliding door into the art
gallery, hangs an orchid like a tassel. This
delicately guards the unbroken sheet, which
gives.to little evidence of fceing a barrier
that otherwise it would be In constant dan-
,ger.
xne
conservatory in Mr. Maranand's
house terminates another superb vista of at
least 175 feet through dining room, Jap
anese room and the Bonis XVI. drawing
room, and connecting on the Madison ave
nue side with the Moorish room. Mr. Mar
quand's conservatory has an eastern ex
posure filling the angle at the southwest
corner of the house, where Mr. Vanderbilt's
has only the western sun. The curious and
inexplicable stained, glass has puzzled many
a passer by. From within it resolves itself
into a Watteau scene rustic arbors, distant
sky. figures disporting in French fashions.
This glass is from Ondinot of Paris, and
is intended to carry out in landscape the
effect of the conservatory within. Accord
ing to the same idea but'in a different way.
and with different 'results than did tho
tapestried background of reeds completing
Hermia Suydam's jungle. Mr. Marquand's
conservatory has a very pretty feature
copied from the Alhambra. This is a gutter
cut in the marble floor and along the sides
of the conservatory, with here and there
openings through which jets of water play.
These are not only a charming detail, but
keeps the atmosphere of the conservatory
desirably moist.
THE MAEBLE CONSKEVATOBY.
"Where the vista is impossible, the next
desirable position of the conservatory is at
tached to, and a part of, the 'dining room.
Sometimes both of these ends are accom
plished as in Mr. A. J. White's house on
upper Fifth avenue. This house is the
splendid monument of an enterprise that, it
is said, began in a wash bowl and is so cari
ous,tinteresting and typical that it tempts
digression. Mr. "White is the proprietor of
the Shaker liniment which has proven as
potent as Aladdin's lamp in creating
splendor and dazzling wealth.
The drawing room is Japanese and opens
into a Bennaissance music room, which is
the expansion of the hall and receives the
magnificent stairway. This leads into the
dining room, beautiful with carved wains
cotting and marbles and opening into the
conservatory. This succession affords one
of the most superb coup d' oeil in town.
The conservatory in itself is beautiful with
carvings and marbles. The floor is of mar
ble. In the center is a large marble foun
tain. The sides below tho glass are wains
cotted with tawny-hned Numidian marble,
brass bound. On the side walls is a iricze
richly modeled by Theodore Baer, the mo
tives being birds and flowers and other sig
nificant attributes of a sylvan scene. Sncn
is the background, and against it massed
and grouped with proper effect are the
broad leaved tropical foliage plants that for
the most part compose the conservatories in
town.
In Mr. Cornelius Vanderbilt's house the
conservatory juts out to Fifty-seventh
street and opens into the dining room which
I have before described. This, as the other
conservatories, is a mass of tropical greenery
which can be discerned from the Moorish
smoking room through the lovely Italian
corridors that intervenes. Mr. Jav Gould's
LtowB conservatory is attached to his dining
1889.
room but has no prominence aside frasa the
restful effect or a mass of green. One of
the prettiest conservator? effects in town is
in the house of Mrs. Fogg on upper Fifth
avenue. The conservatory opens out of the
dining room which is a leather hung, brass
studded room bearing tha impress of Mr.
Louis Tiffany's ingenious decorative talent.
The conservatory is screened behind by
glass doors that shut it off if desired, but
the doors are so fashioned as to blend with
and admit the beauty of the green beyond.
The greater part is of clear glass, but
mingled with it is stained glass which
takes tho semblance of vines and flowers.
These are admirably drawn, glorious in
color and assist in the prettiest illusion
possible.
These are inefficient to show the scope
and disposition ol the city conservatory. It
is not intended for the cultivation of plants
or flowers. It is prompted by neither love
ot flowers nor knowledge of plants. It is an
appendage of wealth.a feature of decoration,
and has nothing in it more personal than
carpets and curtains.
LITTLE "WOMEN1
who grow early primroses and cultivate
rose slips under a disused sasb, and is su
premely content if she can attach a few
yards of glass to the side of her house, may
have fancied she would like to exchange
cuttings with the mistress of some fine city
conservatory, but the two speak different
tongues. They both have the pleasure of
possession, but they arrive at it in an en
tirely different way.
It could not be otherwise. There is not
sun enough in town for the cultivation of
flowers. The most that can be hoped for is
a place to display them. Tropical foliage
is preferred not only because it is decorative,
but because it comes from the stifling,
shadowy jungles, and can be appropriately
housed in a steam-heated, Bhaoed city con
servatory. Moreover, city people do not
care to take irouble in doing what can be
better done for them, as there are enough
Ainnii it4A4jkaM 4h am lL!H 1Sb.
M UMVMVUS bU UGVUpjT fcUCir UVC3.
Money can do most tfa ings for them. In the
spring their bits of yard are one day dun
and brown. The next day they are set with
emerald turf and enameled with primroses,
daffodils and tulips.
For conservatories such as those described
there are no gardeners. They are stocked
and tended by some city florist. One of the
most prominent orchid growers and florists
who does a great deal ot this sort of thing
says:
"A rich man concludes he wants a con
servatory. He comes to me and tells me
the sort of effect he wants to produce. I go
to see his place, we compare ideas, talk it
over, and the rfst is left to me, I agreeing
to take charge of it for so much a month.
The plants I own; my client probably
doesn't know their names. So often a week
my men visit it, water, wash and look after
the health and welfare of the plants. The
only thing my client is responsible for is
frost He has the heating of the conser
vatory, I can't control that. If ho allows
the plants to be killed by too low a tem
perature he has to pay for them, for I own
them, and so to speak, rent them to him,
the rent being included in the gross sum
paid to me monthly. There are fashions in
plants, as in everything. At present the
basis of every conservatory is tropical
foliage. These we get mainly in palms, and
ferns of which there are endless varieties.
These are not transplanted but stand in
tubs that may be hidden if desired in costly
jars. Those we do not furnish. In their
season we furnish plants in bloom, and
when the period of bloom is over we take
them away and substitute others. A short
time ago azaleas were in great demand.
Again it is rhododendrons. At present
orange trees in bloom are the object of
everybody's desire."
THE OECHID CAZE.
"Surely the craze of all crazes is or
chids?" "You remember when everybody had
rustic baskets swinging from the ceiling.
"Well, that craze has passed, and now we
bave orchids. Orchids are more curious.
A bit of wood suspended from a thread
alive with strange shapes of wondroas
color."
"Are they not difficult to cultivate?"
"They are. difficult to start and require
the closest care. This is done in our country
forcing houses. But when onoe they are,
started they can be transferred to a city con-'
servatory and reqnlre no more care than do
the ferns and palms."
"Then there are no private orchid fanciers
in town?"
"There have been but two to my knowl
edge. Mr, Jay Gould has a fine collection,
but those are in his glasshouses at Tarry
town. The only orchid grower in town is
Mr. Arnold, of the great drygoods firm. He
has a collection to be compared with that of
Mr. Gonld andof Mr. Chcdwick, of Albany,
whose orchids are probably the finest in the
country."
The other orchid grower to which the
florist referred was the late opulent Mary
Jane Morgan. Mrs. Morgan's orchid house
was a plain but extensive glass affair over
her stables. Her ambition was to have the
most comprehensive collection in the
country, and her $2,000 orchid out of the
Duke or Devonshire a sale of duplicates is a
matter of orchid history.
The school mistress element always re
mained in lively force in Mrs. Morgan's
nature. As she took up one fancy or an
other she acquainted herself thorougly with
it, and a library of specialties was the result.
In this case her enthusiasm is embalmed in
an orchid morganiensis, named for her by
orchid growers.
Nothing about city conservatories would
be complete without an allusion to the
winter gardens of some of the hospitals.
The New York Hospital has a spacious glass
house on its root with a center of palms and
tropical foliage and about it a wide prom,
enade where convalescents are wheeled in
rolling chairs and may lie and luxuriate in
the health-giving sun.
" Maet Gat Humphreys.
ENAMEL AS AN INSOLATION.
Tho Great Obstacle to be TJso of Under
ground Wires Overcome.
A correspondent of the London Elec
trician writes as follows: "I have recently
made an invention which I consider of the
greatest value to the electrical trade, and I
shall be glad-to publicly give them the ben
efit of my invention. I find that such
articles as the cores of electro-magnets, bob
bins, and, I believe, even wire, can be
coated with enamel or similar vitreous sub
stance, and that this acts as a splendid in
sulator and protection for the wire to be
wound thereon. It can also be used for the
inside coating of iron tnbes for tho carrying
of underground wires."
Worse Off.
""Would de gemman in front oblige by
removin' de hat ?"
"Would de same gemmaa oblige by Ft
tin- aejiai on again tivck.
I ; ,
OUK SUMMER GIRLS.
Itose Terry Cooke Talks to Them of
Watering-Place Temptations.
THE KIND OP COMPANY TO AT0ID.
How Flirtinsr Girls Cheapen Themselves in
the Eyes of -Men.
DON'TBE 0TEEBEARING TO 0THEG GIKLS
rwarrnor ros the dispatch.!
"Summer is y-comen in," says the old
English ditty, and soon the girls of our land
will be crowding in swarms to seaside and
mountain, to springs of healing though
they do not need those waters and to nooks
in the forest where great barns have been
built beside some lonely lake, and christened
summer hotels. Voy go with you, pretty
creatures! May all your new garments
come out of those voluminous trunks an
wrinkled and fresh; mar, each one of you
have quite the prettiest attire at the place
yon choose to abide in; the corner front
room at every hotel; the best beaux and the
gayest season.
After all these good wishes will you, my
dears, listen to a few words of caution and
advice? And that my words may seem.less
general I will address myself to each of
you, my pretty readers, singly, as if yon
and I were talking to each other.
This is, perhaps, your first season at
watering places; you are just out of school,
and as giddy as most girls, but I will do
you the justice to say that you are one of
the very few girls who will listen to their
elders' advice.
In the first place, my dear, I would coun
sel yon to be very careful about your con
duct toward the young men you will meet.
I will take it for granted" that you are
pretty, and, perhaps, a little gay and
thoughtless as well. Ifl have pictured you
correctly remember that to be thoughtless
counteracts being pretty. You know, the
proverb? "Asa jewel ot gold.in a swine's
snout, so is a fair woman without discre
tion," and no modern proverb vender or
mender ever said a truer thing. Do be dis
creet; do not think that young men'are the
only delightfnl people in the world, or act
as if you thought so. Keep them at a proper
distance; no man likes or respects a girl who
runs after him, defers to his opinions, lets
him say rude things to her, ana takes little
liberties of speech or action.
A SILLY FLTBT.
Long ago I knew a young girl who had
such a good opinion of her fellow-men that
whenever one came into the honse she put
on all the graces she could muster, sidled
up to them, cast down her eyes, or gave
little appealing, soft glances, smiled at
every meaningless word, and became gen
erally a fool in her aspect and conversation.
She giggled and primmed np her mouth
with an expression of such terrific sweet
ness I always wanted to laugh aloud when
I saw her.
In the street she would go ronnd corners,
into shops, by hotels, walking abroad seek''
ing whom she could flirt with in a manner
so absurd that all the youths who, were it
first attracted by her became disgusted and
left her to herself. The girl did' not mean
any harm; she liked young men's society,
as most girls do, but men are made to pur
sue, not to be hunted down. This poor girl
cheapened herself from the beginning, and
was never respected. Don't forget, my
dear, that now is your time to establish your
character for life as a well-bred, ("harming,
modest girl; do not; X beg of yon, lose the
opportunity.
Again, don't go out driving, or walking.
or sailing alone with any young man. Per
haps yon wilT tell me that girls nil do it.
Not well-bred girls, my dear; if you have no
real chaperon take another girl with you.
Half the scandals and tragedies of women
begin in.their jcareiessness about-this-very
thing, i And over all, do be most particular
about the young men with whom you asso
ciate. Avoid "fast" men as you would
lepers. Men who are dissipated are in
herently low; no matter bow rich, how hand-.
some, how highly placed in what is called
society, such men are no associates for a
pure, young girl. You do not know any
thing about their real lives and characters,
and tlcy know you do not; they take ad
vantage of your natural and lovely inno
cence, and, admire it; though they know
themselves they are not fit to touoh the hem
Of your dress even.
AVOID THE BLASE DUDE.
Do yonr part toward making society what
it should be by your marked avoidance of
young men who drink, gamble, or have a
bad reputation in any way. If every girl
would do this we should have a very differ
ent state of .things in the world. No girl
who accepts a high standard of character by
which to select her Iriends or her associates
will do such a revolting thing as to elope
with her father's coachman orherneign
bor's groom, and thereby loso all that makes
a woman's life desirable. You have doubt
less been too well brought up to be in dan
ger of any such fatal step; but you may be
Just as thoroughly shipwrecked by marry
ing an elegant, wealthy, good-looking youth
from any "first family,' if he is not a man of
high principle and pure life, as by allying
yourself with a servant having no such ad
vantages. I must say another thing about your
clothes.
Don't be too fine; simplicity and exquisite
fresh neatness are more attractiye in a girl's
costume than any extravagance of fashion
or costliness of material; bnt even the
plainest dress may be made flaunting by its
immodest style.
Again, be kind and. sweet and forbearing
to other gvls; do not deprive them of their
chances in life, however great your own
social success may be. Do not monopolize
BILE POISONED BLOOD.
Nearly every one is occasionally troubled
with Dillons attacks, more especially In the
spring months, after the system has been snr
felted with hearty food during the winter. The
action of the Liver is Interfered with, causing
an overflow of bile Into the Mood. The blood
carries this bile Into every part of the system,
causing yellow skin, yellow eyes, liver spots,
etc., and often serloos cases of billons fever
originate from this blls poisoned blood. A
few doses ot Burdock Blood Bitters, taken on
appearance of bilious symptoms, will remove
them and protect the system from a propanle
serious attack,
Run Down In tho Soring.
I am using Burdock Blood Bit
ters for Sick Headache and Bil
ionsness. It is the best medicine I
ever took. I was so run down this
spring from overwork that my
husband urged me to sec a doctor.
I was scarcely able to stand and
coacluded to try B. B. Bitters first;
the first Dottle is not yet finished,
but I can go about my work with
pleasure already. I shall take an
other bottle.
Mrs. John Doxkelly,
care of EDWAED Doolet,
15 Lyman Street, Springfield,
Mass.
I toll you for the benefit ot oth
ers what Burdock Blood Bitters
liai done for me. I havo been a
sufferer for years from Liver Cora
plaint and weak stomach. At
times I was so bad that 1 would
apply to our family physician for
relief, which would be bnt tempor
ary.Last falllhad an unusually bad
spell. My mother bought a bottle
ot Burdock Blood Bitters, and It
gave me great relief. It helped
inn more thaa anything I have
1
BOTTLE
Will Believe
b.
Clogged Liver
and Cleanse
Bile Poisoned
Blood.
ever taken. It is also excellent
for constipation. Mrs. Lizzie
GBOTB.IckesburgPen?ro.bl.a.
Last spring my health became yjcry poor. I
had no appetite and my liver troubled me. I
used several medicines, bat obtained no relief
until I was finally persuaded to try Burdock
Blood Bitters. This medicine cared ma.
i , Matjd Fmhxb,
riactTiHe, if. r.
a yoHHZ' B8a jnst to exhibit your power, a
some girls do; it is unkind. And be just
as careful what yonng woman you are
friendly with, aa I would have you to be
about young men. A girl Is always judged
by,her friends; keep civilly aloof from the
"tast," the ilangyi the giggling girls you
will too surely meet. Choose your com
pany more carefully- than your dress, for
your friends are the true Index of your
moral and mental status.
puuriXLrso desiihy.
Nothing can ever retrieve the mistakes
you make now in these respects; you are
now "making history," the history of your
life.
God never made among all the exquisite
things or creation a more lovely, enchant
ing, exquisite, admirable creature than a
fresh, pure, charming young girl, full of
unselfish, thought for others, gentle, gra
cious and spotless. Not the milk-white
and stately June lilies -are so radiant in
their stainless candor as such a girl
no tropio blossom vies with her
health-colored face beaming with 'the
light of the sweet soul within her;
she is the flower and crown of humanity.
Ah, my dear, fulfill this destiny waiting for
you, and you will become to your household
and the world one of the "angels that are to
be," one of the "American girls" who shall
help to redeem their country and their peo
ple from the stigma that I say it with pain
and regret our own countrymen have cast,
upon those whom they should have been tha
first to defend!
Enjoy your flight, Q pretty swallows, mi
grating toward mountain and shore; but fly
tree to your wings, upward and onward.
Eose Teeey Cooke.
H0BE TALENT HEEDED.
A Caustic Criticism of American Organs and
Organists.
The Art Journal says this country is a
world of noble organs and inefficient organ
ists. Americana can build organs that are
masterpieces, that hold within their forests
of pipes the very soul of divinest harmony.
But America cannot produce even a fairly
good organist for every superb organ built,
nor yet one such for every hundred first
class pipe organs bearing the name of
an American builder. Meanwhile the
natural love for church organ music
grows and expands. This is the result of
foreign travel, bringing before the Ameri
can the noblest instrument of the Old
"World, touched by men fitted to call forth
the great soul hidden behind the pipes,
manuals and registers. Of the building of
complete and costly and rich-voice organs
in this country, there is no end, while of
the evolving of organists capable of doing
full justice to these instruments, there is
scarcely a beginning. The utter incon
gruity of plating a $300 organist in charge
of a 56,000 or 510,000 organ is painfully
manifested to the worshiper in the sanctu
arygracedbysuchan instrument A Stradi
vorius or a priceless Cremona in the horny
hands of a flatboatman would scarcely be
less out of place than is a richly-endowed
pipe organ before a youth whose living is
earned by a clerkship, and who ekes out his
salary as an organist. It is not his fault that
the possibilities of the instrument are as
much beyond him as are the depths of
the ocean unfathomable by his yard
stick. The fault lien with the church mem
bers, who pay royally for an organ and in
niggardly fashion for an organist. The finer
the Instrument the more deplorable ijsthe
discrepancy. And thus the new organ is
regarded as a failure, and the cause ot ec- .
clesiastical music suffers. Yet the fault is (
that of the congregation in general, and not
of the inefficient organist.
BAILE0AD TEAINI5G SCHOOLS.
Educating Tonne Men in All the Details of J
DIodem Transportation.
The Pennsylvania Bailroad has at its
shops in Alfoona a unique school for train
ing candidates for positions in the transpor
tation department. Graduates of universi
ty scientific courses are eligible for instrue- ,
tion in the school, such as those wii'iaye '
studied in" the Towae- Scientific Department- ,
of the University of Pennsylvania, in the
Troy Polytechnic School, the Benssalaerr
Institute and other schools of that descrip
tion. -
There are no classes, no set hones, no reg- f
ular instructors at Altoona. As many
students as can be accommodated'-perhaps . '
a dozen or so are taken into the training
school. Some are put to work firing loco
tives, some in the machine or car shops,
some in the draughting room, and others '
again at maintenance-of-way work. These
college-bred learners are expected to work
in any department to which they are as
signed, side by side with the regular em
ployes, and are salaried like the regulars.
There is a system of graded pay by which
those who show application and ability can
steadily increase their income.
It is from the lanks of those who have
gone through this school that the railroad
company recruits the upper grades of its
officials. "Whenever positions are vacant
the department heads have these tried
students to select from, and the consequence
is that an efficient service is maintained. So
successful has the working of this scheme
been that in a number ot cases prominent
Eastern railroads in need of sub-officials
have sought to get bold of men graduated
from the training school.
Toe Editor and tho Woodcback.
The editor of the Luther, Mieh., Enter
prite continues to receive all sorts of valua
ble things on subscription. In his last is
sue he says: "last Thursday A. B. Huli
saple brought us a hawks-bill terrapin, the
first of the kind we had ever seen.1 The
next day Engineer Anderson and Conduc
tor Pratt, of the freight, presented ns with
a fine specimen of the genus woodchuck.
Later He is now at large under the "Tread
gold building, and when we go out to look
at him he puts his thumb to his nose and
smiles. His cage was no good."
If you suffer from Headache, Nausea, Dhd
ness, Faintness, Alternate Costivaness and
Ciarrhcea, Yellow CompIexlon.'Weakness, Ach
ing Shoulders or any other symptom of bilious
ness or Lirer Complaint, procure a bottle of
B. B. a, which will correct the clogged condl
tion of the Liver, cleanse the blood of all im
purities and tone up the entire system. It Is
an acknowledged fact by all who have used
BURDOCK BLOOD BITTERS THAT ONE
BOTTLE CONTAINS MORE CURATIVE
PROPERTIES THAN GALLONS OP ANY
OTHER MEDICINE KNOWN.
A Horrible Condition.
I was In a horrible condition from
dyspepsia and a combination of other
complaints. In the morning when I
got out of bed It seemed as if I could
not stand up on account of dizziness.
Hearing Burdock Blood Bitters high
It recommended, I am now using the
first bottle, and, although not haTing
used qnlte a full bottle, the dizziness
has entirely disappeared and I am
ranch better of my other complaints.
I have tried many other medicines,
with no relief.
Mas. Mart cuAvvczr,
BSS E. Ransom it, Kalamazoo. Mich.
I had ben trnnbled with Liver
Complaint, Indigestion and Palplta.
tion ot the Heart for fire or six years
and could get nothing to do me any
food untlfl tried B.B.B. I used 13
ottles and now I am a sound man. I
feel better than X ever oiu in my me.
My digestion became all right and I
have no more trouble with my heart.
I feel very grateful toward B. B. B.
and feel like recommending It every
where. Yours respectfully, iTJAJra:
Hickhait, New Straltsville, Perry
Co., Ohio.
THIS SPRING.
I have been taking Burdock Blood Bitters
and using it In my family this spring. For
three years I have had the dyspepsia. I got a,
bottle or two ot yonr Bitters and they have
cared nt, aad I nerer felt better In say life.-' It i
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