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PKNIMUM, TtEEp & CO., Proprietors
7. B. PENNI2d/..N, JOSIAH NINO,
T. P. 110127031. N. P. REND.
Eilltors and Proprietors.
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MONDAY, MAY 10, 1009.
Pain on the inside pages of
this morning's Gs:arms—second page
"The Bait le,lEphentsris, Interesting Clip
pings. Third cind Sixthpages: Commercial,
Arusncial, M rkets, River Nein, /imports.
'4seoenth page: Letter from East Tonnes •
see, Miscellan , Amusement Directory.
All•. •
t S. Bomins at 'Frankfort, 84.
PFrnorarana at Antwerp, 511 f.
Gioia) dosed in New York yesterday
at 1137-1(4187.Z1.
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I - WATC FOR THE BELL:
The Fire- arm bell - will strike the
signals, to-da , for the Rocky-Mountain
district. The department aced not turn
out. Each blow, which before to-days
I sanset, is tp drire home, more than
thousani one hundred miles away,
the golden. spike confinisg the last rail
to complete the road from ocean to ocean,
will, simultaneously, be -sounded by the
City bell of iVittaburgh.. And thus the
thussiamtinentsl railway and telegraph
will win thlr triumphs in unison. How
the connection is effected, is stated else
where: I _
Trtsr areßaking :nails, at Cleveland,
ofileasemeritteel. .
Osto Midi! hes State Republican Con
vention Zeal ncr, to nominate a Goy
,entor and a Ifull State ticket.
Tam Ailmiuistkation will not at present
entertain any proposal for the purchase
of 'Mexican territorg, or for loans of
money upon such security.
Tim consolidation of the entire line of
- railway from Buffalo, via Toledo. to Chi
cago was egected. on Saturday. This
shuts ont the iErie line from any. desirable
connection at any point.
WALL ants= was excited, at the close
of last weelq by a sudden and large ad
-trance in gold, and a marked depression
in the public funds. This was due to the
- financial advices from London, where the
Bank of Bniland has resorted to extraor
dinary measures to defeat proposed loans
to the Spanish, Russian and Portuguese
governmen4 The Bank put up its inter
est-rate, and gave intimations of a still
further advance, for the purpose of thus
checking the obnoxious schemes. The
resulting financial panic in London was,
of course, felt in our , markets, but its
cause tvas fully understood.
GovEnnumuzrr has notice, from the
Spiddsh Minister, who is evidently keep
ing blinsslf Iyell-advised, that the steam
ship Quaker Fity is about , to leave Re st/
York in the, interest of the Cuban in
surgents. I l re shall see what is to be
done about It. In the meantime, it is
clear that 1 - 3 An pursues a mistaken policy,
in declining to recognize the Cuban in-'
surrection as la grave fact, in her diplo
matic communications with our authori
ties. SO lorig as we have no official
Imowledip3 of the existing disturbances
In her Coloni, it will be in vain for the
Spanish government to expect any formal
and efficient interposition, by our Federal
power, to prevent. the 'expressiOn of
American sympathy by materiel aid to
the insurgents.
GRAIN FREIGHTS :'AND RAILWAY
RIVALRIES
The Western Boards of Trade, rcpre-
silting" the' Lake region and the NeW
York canal interests, begin to realize that
it costa 'too mach to get the grain of the
Northwest 'forward to the markets of the
sea-board.' The Boards, therefore, held
i',Convention at Chicago, the other day,
to promote a movement for the abate.
mit of the charges for transportation,
elevating and insurance, for tho reduc
tion of the New York - canal tolls, for the
enlargement Of the - Erie and Oswego
canals, andfor the construction of a ship.
canal around Niagara Falls. Theao oft-
icete are very--commendable,—and it is
likely that each and all , of them will be
Attained at about the , same time. Just at
present; there'll- evinced .a slight heats.
Lion in those quarters which are .most di
' rfectly concerned, and which have been
apeciallYippealed'to. For the proposed
ithipeitnal, no . . one has much to
Jay, either forit or against it ; its friends
are wise net` .to be over-sanguine, and
Its'opPonents see no present need for im
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im?visbag any contest with a merely
shadowy myth. 'IIE3 project has not yet
reached even-timiembryo state,: much low'
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alt not indinenotheirown - saes •
in the way thus recommended by their
customers, and the carriers by water
complain that. with their present charges,
they can scrrcely make both ends meet.
Again, Nev- York obdurately declines to
borrow ten millions, for the enlargement
of her canals, and does not respond to the
demand for lower•toils, with such cheer
ful promptitude as the Boards of Trade
senld be gratified to see. They have
acme comfort, however, in view of a grow
ing inclination ! in New York, to sell their
canals to private parties, who, undoubt
edly, will meet the reasonable application
of the Boards with a generous alacrity.
It is evident that 'something must be
done. The present situation is quite
alarming for these Northern and Western
Boards of Trade, which, as, a general
thing, aro rather partial to water than
railway (carriage. It Is not only that
transportation, &c., costa too much, but
that the business is getting to be unpleas
antly cut up—in fact, too large a share of
it is getting into the wrong hands. For
example, the Erie Canal, last year, car
ried 3,908,243 tons, while the N. Y. Cen
tral, Erie and Pennsylvaniarailways con
veyed 13,352,255 tons. This was bad for
the canal department of the Boards of
Trade. Of the total railway tonnage, the
,Pennvivaniithad4,7B2,6ls tons, or more
than either of its two great competitors.
This was bad for the New York depart
ment of those Boards. The total rail
tonnage of Pennsylvania in October last
was six-and-ahalf times that of the Erie
Canal.
Faa
These figurei disclose 'one of the very
tender points pinched by that shoe. The
Pennsylvania trunk-line of rails is mak
ing a formidable inroad upon a business
which, not many years since, was nearly
a monopoly for the route through Cen
tral N e w York—and the combined inter
ests of New York canals and railways
now find themselves forced to make
common cause against the great and grow
ing rivalry of the ably-managed Pennsyl
vania corporation.
By all means, letus have cheaper trans.
-portation for the Western bread•stuffs
which ire to belife of the toiling
millions in the Bast. But a movement
so commendable in its apparent aims will
be much more likelr to succeed, if it is
not made a cover fork the competitive tac
tics of rival railway lines.
APPELECIATION I OF RAILWAY
PROPERTY.
A. New York financial report of Satur
day says:
It is . reported today that the Fort
Wayne Company has declared a scrip,
dividend of sixty per cent. This is de
nied by the agents here,
although it is
admitted there will be aliberal scrip di
vidend. and the road leased in perpetu
ity to the Pennsylvania Company.
We are quite prepared to believe that
this corporation has so far improved and
completed the structure and equipment of
its road, out of current earniags from
year to year, which expenditures have
not been charged uplto =the construction
account, that a liberal allowance th erefor
is in some way due to the shareholders.
The exact measure of this allowance
should be ascertained in the difference
between the presentlactual value of their
property, and that value which • the pre- 1
sent stock-books represent. There is-need
for a just discrimination, in railway-8-
, nance, between two radically different
classes of current expenditure Done of
which stands for replacing cur
rent losses by wear and tear,
and is in no true sense -in ad- .
dition to the property-value, while the
I
'other represents a' positive and substan
tial increase in that ,Value, in the way of
expense for permanent improvements,
whether In structure or equipment. For
the latter, stockholders should have cred
it, and. this, if practicable, should be an- .
nually carried to their account, instead of
being lumped in, at long intervals, wear-,
ding to the fashion of late introduced by
many of our leading companies. It Is ,
not impossible, however, that such an
annual revision ofthe solid property-values
would be so difficult to'accomplish
with accuracy, as to justify its postpone
ment for longer intervals. Whether'
the Fort Wayne property has come at
last to be actually worth, in this way, so
much as sixty per cent. more than the
present stock represents, is a matter upon
which none but its managers can speak
with an approximate precision. We do
not doubt, however, that its yalue has
been, in fact, largely increased, for the
most part, through a wise expenditure of
current earnings, these being the actual
and legitimate property of the share
holders, and that the latter are
fully. entitled to a credit of the
amiamt of their funds thus sp.
propriated, with a proper' -allowance
therefor.; , This, too, in any event," irre
spective of the inauguration of a policy
so novel and decided as that of a per
petual lease of their property to another
corporation. If this project for a lease
be really entertained at this moment, as
stated in New York, the shareholders
would be fairly entitled to la prior allot.
went - of their invested earnings in the
common property—whatever the amount
liable to such a'divislon may be.
In this_ instance, u all. others, we
hold it to be a sound principle of railway
finance, that every _dollar of the stock.
holder's money; _which is from year to
yeir pat into' the permanent property,
and so properly chargeable to the con
' struction accountohould be .credltEd to
its owner, ill!' sharelMder
Jf •Mbisiprineiple.bas . .4o4m;to•he
:MY r irdzle4_imkTeg s'Pli se . / 4 11 .tt r id
its &lip &thin to vast- stodpicitoluo
rrrtstvEap 110 : 14p4.,7, t MAY 105, le*
4 Senurof niir giesit'ialliff if s ; f ai - z' t i e
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first time, and with a r ...
dcr-centage of
- appreciation so large . , as in many
cases to aPProxim'Ate an equality
.senting the original
to the figures repr e senting
first cost of the p r operty, has very natu
rally startled the. public, sometimes into
a belief that Vat watering waS excessive
and in the interests of a corruptly specu
lative management. In fact, there may
have been, in some instances, ground for
this imputation, but `much less generally
than-people suppose. In most cases the
novel policy has been in just. correspon
dente to the- existing facts, which
.all point in one direction, es
tablishing an increase in the
value of American railway prop
erty generally,—beyond the figures
at which .this has been placed by our
statisticians,—of from fifty to one hun
dred per cent. In other words, the rail
way system of this country has come to
represent, in fact, nearly double the value
at w hich it has been heretofore reckoned.
It IS quite time that the country should
have the proper credit for the wealth thus
accumulated, and heretofore unacknowl
edged in its known estimates. Along and
on the whole> a justifiable step has been
takri in this direction, by the great scrip
lallotments of some of our principal cor
porations.
THE TRIUMPH. OF LABOR.
It is finished. The American people
will to-day gladden and rejoice that the
masterwork of the century is accomplish.
ed, and that unobstructed way lets been
made for the Iron horse from the Atlantic
to the Pacific Ocean. The consummation of
this grand national enterprise can scarcely
be realized; and yet to a certainty on this
bright May morning, the last rail will be
laid and the last spike driven home to
unite and complete the Union and Cen
tral Pacific Railways How flattering to
our age and people is the full and perfect
consummation of the grand work which
more than realizes the wildest dreams of
the few progressive enthusiasts who went
before tis, but lived in advance of their
times. The outside world may well look
with awe and admiration on a people poi
sessing within themselves the elements of
greatness ; they may well marvel and
astonish at the triumph of labor which
we to-day present, and draw salutary
lessons from the public spirit which has
prompted the pushing forward to com
pletion of so noble a work. The Ameri
can intellect comprehended the mighti
nests of the project ere it was entered
upon, but hesitated not to force down
and level the barriers thrown up by
nature to its final accomplishment,.. Im
pediments disappeared before the army
-et laborers working tow ards
. each other as
snow melts away beneath the rays of the
sun. Rivers and deep seated valleys
were crossed, mountains climbed and
pierced, canyons crept over, and plains
iron tracked with fabulous rapidity. No
obstacle frightened away the laborers,
none baffled their genius to overcome;
Day after day and week after week the
heavy stroke of the hammer was heard,
and the ends of the roads came nearer and
nearer together, till - the two peaceful
armies met, and deferred the laying, of
, the last rail that all the people might in
union rejoice over the great event of
completion.
As the great. bell rings forth to-day,
measuring time with the strokes driving
down the hot rail, let us all thank God,
for the dawning of the new era. Thank
Him, that under the banner of peace, a
victory has been achieved by the' nation,
more glorious than any recorded in the
hooka of war—a victory of the intellect,
which opens new fields to Christianity
and fresh avenues through which will
drift the oriental wealth of the old world
in exchange for the agricultural and man
ufacturing products of the new. Thank
Him that we have lived to enjoy and par
take of the general prosperity which must
follow the laying open to science of the
vast wealth hidden and locked up in the
bowels of the Rocky Mountains, and in the
prairie oceans hitherto beyond the reach
of civilization, but which now awaits the
. touch of industry to be converted into
the richest fields, and farms of , the Uni
verse.
CREDIT WHERE CREDIT IS DUE
While recognizing- in. the days' tri
umph a good cause for national joy and
thanksgiving, and while willing to ac
cord that fair share of credit due the Cen
tral Pacific Railway, we feel that it is
but discharging a simple act of justice to
pay special tribute of praise to the man
agers of the Union Pacific Division, un
der whose auspices was accomplished the
larger and most difficult portion of the
work. At the outset a friendly compe
tition sprang up between the two rival
corporations .as to which should , ac
complish the better part of the track
building in a substantial and perfect
manner. This rivalry , caused each to put
forward herculean. efforts, and to enlist
whole armies of clever workmen for the
labor. The Union Pacific took the lead,
and day after day, steadily, perseveringly,
incessantly kept the brawny regiments
moving forward leaving behind a track as
well constructed as that gracing any road
way on the Continent. The rapidity
with which built was not held to be a
sufficient 1 1 , excuse for defective or even
ordinary workmanship, for
. the constant
aim of the managers was to secure a good,
safe, reliable and durable road at all haz
ards. A personatipspaction to the pOth
mile pint cerfkitidthelfr#AF, tbatlWlft
traelc-lajtog not' , 4roxolap4tble with
cue&
'iritbr witt to thti %atm
; 'AI ...V1.z.4'.; $617,1' , .1 • iist,t
still telieveit thellnion Pacific Por
tion of the road to be as fine a specimen
as any laid in the United States. Almost
within three years from the breaking of
ground 'at Omaha fur the track, nearly
eleven hundred miles have been corn
completed t The distance, however, is
but a slight matter when compared with
the trying disadvantages and discoura
ging circumstances accompanying the
work almost fkom the beginning to the
end. The labor was a trifle, as" great' as
it 'seems, when compared with the obsta
cles ene,ounted in . the, construction.' The
field of operation was in what geograph
ers, . with much truth, styled the
Great Desert," where no settle
tlement was made, and where it was
barren of the means for support
ing, or even helping to support, the army
of laborers. The base of supplies, ex
cepting timber, was necessarily thousands
of miles distant in the Atlantic States,
and all the tools and machinery had to be
dragged,over far stretching railways to
Omaha, and from thence by rail and
teams to the seat of operations. Statis
tics will) best tell the truth of the enor
mous outlay made to keep the work go
ing forward, and will account for the
road costink out of proportion to those
Wilt within the heart of civilization where
everything needed was at hand. A
hundred and ten thousand tons of iron
rails, a million fish-plates, two million
bolts, and fifteen million spikes, are among
the items carried from the East and con
sumed upon the road. The great engines
that move the Company's works at Oma
ha, together with the varied and vast
amounts, of
,machinery, implements and
tools used in stocking and fitting up their
manufactories, were also brought from the
Beat, and wagoned over the country
a hundred and fifty miles to Omaha.
Three and a half millions of cross-ties,
millions and millions of feet of lumber
were brought from considerable distance
to Omaha and from thence over the road,
and we might go on citing materials for
building purposes, subsistence and stores
which were transported to the road at
great expense, but our readers will fully
comprehend the great difficulty of carry.
ing on the work rapidly under the dis
advantage of having their source of sup
plies located at such distance from the
scene of action.
Teri years ago when labor and materi
als were not half so high as now the
average cost per mile of building rail
ways in thickly settled States where no
such inconveniences were encountered,
was $66,000 per mile, equivalent to $132,•
000 today. •
But they were partially double track
roads. Deduct 88 per cent. for second
track, and there is left $BB,OOO as their
equitable average 'cost per mile for their
entire length. Add to this sum a moder
ate allowance, say 20 per cent., for extra
transportation and loss to the Company
by rapid bnilding, and the equitable cost
of the Union Pacific Railroad, including
its rolling stock and all appurtenances
whatever, Is thus demonstrated to be
$105,000 per mile;:and of the whole line,
eleven hundred miles, $116,160,000.
The Company's resources are first class,
consisting of Capital Stock,Bonda loaned
by the Government, Lands granted by
the Government, which are now repre
sented by "Land Grant Bonds," and the
Company's first Mortgage Bonds, which
are said to be worth in the aggregate
$89,895,000, a sufficient amount to bring
the road no to the highest standard of
completion, and to build the Denver
branch,
Certainly these fig urea, correctly made
up, should ensure the First Mortgage
Bondholdem that the alarm which has
seized manila unfounded, save in the
malice of those opposed to the Company,
and who care little for truth in their, as
sertions regarding its affairs. Inasmuch
as the Central Pacific received $lO,OOO l i
less per mile in Government bonds, so
their First Mortgage. Bonds were issued
in a like smaller amount—slo,ooo less on
each and every mile of road. This dif
ference of $20,000 per mile against the
Central makes the annual interest liabili
ties considerably in favor of the Union
Pacific Company.
The principal and interest of the bonds
of both roluis are made payable in gold,
are alike secured by first liens on the
property and by special of the
Government, so that, as large , profits
'must ensue their operations, - the capitalist
is offered no better or safer investment,and
if there can be any decided advantage of
one over the other, it is with the Union
i Pacific. The managers of both comps
kites have great cause for joy that their
connection has been made, and the peo
ple would be ungrateful to withhold the
large measure of praise due all concerned
for the first class railway artery now
completed and ready for the immense bu
siness it must necessarily transact. •
THE PENNSYLVANIA PRISON Sys
TEM
In the Fortieth Annual Report of the
Eastern Penitentiary of Pennsylvania the
gauntlet of defiance, so often thrown
down by opponents of the solitary system
of confinement, has been taken up and
handled in the light of fact's. This: report
asserts :that after forty years of trial there
is no longer , any room for question as to
its superiority in all that relates to its
moral results in protecting the novice in
crime from the corrupting influences of?
the hardened and .iiesperate offender, or')
its beneficial results to society in -rat
forming 8111boweapable . of refdrmatio
and in',Neeleeetieff the jell from c be•
it l igF444 l P44. ll "# 7 #o:AkiltW A AT
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&bit . ii tolitierateiis diniinale in a worse
condition than when received, or, of its
superiority in preserving quiet and good
order, in the prevention of outbreaks,
mutinies and escapes, and in its freedom
from the necessity of frequent and cruel
punishmonts. All these, says the report,
were long ago demonstrated,' and the can
did Objectors to the Pennsylvania system
were reduced to two objections, the al
legeil damage of the separate discipline to
the bodily and mental health of the pris
oners, and with these two objections the
report proeeeds to deal.
First as to the alleged tendency of the
separate system to cause insanity. In the
forty years since the opening of the Ea d
ent Penitentl64 5,642 persons have been
confined there, of whom' but six had to
be removed on account of mental de
rangement. This is a, little more than
one tenth of one per cent. During - the
same period there were confined in the
penitentiary-- ) at Charlestown, Ibis,—
conaidered the most ably managed and
besiiiisciplined congregate prison in the
cowl : Cry-4,723, of whom thirty-five, or
nearly three-fourths of one per cent. had
to be removed on accountrof insanity.
Statistics frorn the same prison are se
lecte.d as to the relative mortality under the
two systems. During the last fifteen years
the ! annual population of the Charles
town Penitentiary foots rip an aggre
gate of 9,266 prisoners, of whom 89 died.
This is about ninety-six hundredths of
one , per cent. During the same period
the; aggregate of the annual population
of the Eastern Penitentiary was 8,980
prbioners, of whom 91 died. This is
about ninety-eight hundredths of one per
cent. These figures show a minute frac-
oir in favor of the Charlestown Peniten-
tiary. But the report asserts that the
Pennsylvania prison receives a much
larger proportion of colored convicts
whOsti health is generally in a lower state
than 4that of the whites, and of the 91
deaths in fifteen years 28 were negroes.
These statements and figures the report
considers to be indisputable, completely
overthrowing the sole remaining objec
tions to the Pennsylvania system.
AN UNJUST IMPUTATION.
Since the Constitution of Ohio forbids
the' people to make public subscriptions
to the stock of a railway, the new Cin
cinnati Southern railroad law authorizes
that municipality to build the entire road
themselves, upon the same principle that
would justify the erection of water-works
or any other city improvement. This is
anew direction for civic enterprise, and
naturally begins to elicit criticism from
the people who are most concerned. The
constitutional distinction is ,so exceed-
ingly fine that plain citizens fall to see it
as well as the lawyerado. Result—much
open talk of judiCiEd interference, by in
junctions or otherwise. The Gazette, of
that city, which profoundly appreciates
the nice point of constitutional law,
maintains, however, the most exalted re!
gard for the public spirit of the city, and
insists that the opposition will come, not
from local interests, but from a foretell
corporation under their cover. We quote
the paragraph which presents the latest
discovery of our excellent cotemporary.
Itsays:
We are aware, however, that there is
to be opposition to this enterprise. The
Pennsylvania Central Railroad Company
is opposed to .it, because it desires a
Southern connection via Louisville, and
it already controls a line up to that place.
It will therefore oppose anyrailroad that
May afford a shorter lino to the South or
that will open the way to competition.
This opposition is not to be treated light
ly,. It is very powerful, and will try to
make itself felt in its own interests while
pretending to be caring for the interests
of Cincinnati.
-The corporation here referred to is no
doubt quite competent to run the Cincin
nati municipal machine, provided the
Gazette and its friends, who have it at
present in chaige, should entangle them
selves in embarrassing difficulties. But
we venture to doubt the statement that
tbe:Tennsylvania Company opposes the
construction of a great Southern railway
with. Cincinnati funds; they would rather
pi.efer to lease and work the road after its
completion. May we all live to see that
auspicious day
THE. DEIIIOI.3RATIG INTRIGUE.
A Republican cotemporary thus shows
up the secret wire-pullings among the
piincipal Democratic fuglemen of this
State, touching their nomination of &can
didate for Governor. According `to this
version, our neighbors of the Pittsburgh
Post are engaged in what seems like a very
nice piece of business for such clamorous
Democratic opponents to soulless corpo
rations and to Radical corruption. Here
is the expos? upon which we invite the
Post to come t io book:
Asa Packer, a 'prominent Democratic
candidate for Governor, has recently
been the victim of . a political intrigue.
The other candidates started the report,
and it got into the newspapers; that Mr.
Packer refused to permit his name to be
used for that position; this has induced
Mr. P. to re-affirm the fact that "Sarkis
Is williu',' 'And to declare that the report
of his withdrawal :never derived any
authority from him. Packer is a million
aire—a railroad king; ease, his ehief corn
petitor, is also a millionaire, and also a
railroad king. One or the other will be
nominated, and this will Complete the
union in Pennsylvania of the Democrats
and monopolists. If the Legislature
should be of the same make-up, what a
Wine we will have, and with what easy
facility will corporation taxes barnacle to
fall upon the _people. • There was probe•
bly more meaning in the Jate • defeated
• x bill than most people t apprehended.
There is potent need= for the election of
the Republican candidate for Governor,
and the r 0012t111111U100 of a RepubliCan
Leghdiffnie. .
)_ —lt is stated on' good. , anthority that
Uen,Chwhy has Axed the drat l'nesthq
Jolrdurthanlestionta Virglnia e .
•
lIMB
phiniposed Murderer Arrested.
By Telegraph to the Pttlebargh 6uette.l
t3cnewrort. Pa., May 9.—A man giving
his name as Matthew 'Wreath e was to-day
arrested here, suspected of being Brooks.
the murderer of Broadhead, at Delaware.
Water Gap.
THE REASON WHY
Dr. Ilevser's Blood Searcher is the best. It is
computed that a man's system undergoes three
times a year, that Is
every four months, a radical
se a thorough change, that Is, that at the end of
that time nothing remains In the system of the
material of which It was composed before that
time. The eliminating organs carry out the
worn-out and used-up material. and new matter
Is made to take its place and carry on the work
ings of the human organism. The cost of four ,
months treatment in this way would not at the
outside be more than ten dollars, and frequently
the functions of life have an activity and vigor
i mparted sufficient to renew theist - by the use of
one bottle, costar &only one dollar. No organ of
the body but will be benefftted by such a process.
The liver, the stomach, the kidneys, the skin.
the lungs, are all. as it were, made over again
by the Impetus given to the stomach and diges
tive system-old and prostrated people whose .
systems bad begun to languish and decay, have
been restored by DR. KEYSER'S BLOOD
SEARCHER to youthful health and vigor.
Especially is this medicine suitable at thin
season of the year, when the dormant
powers of life., lies all the rest of nature arey
emerging from the chilling and torpid 'slate •
usual to the cold , and wintry month•. We
know very well that all advertised medicines are
apt to be regarded as useless and nugatory, but
with . DR. KEYSER'S BLOOD SEARCHER we
feel perfectly secure In the , promise that It must
do good. Country merchants and those who sup
ply others with needful things for their *antis
cannot confer a greater service than so keep
few bottles of this valuable medicine on their
shelves to supply their wants: Dr. Keyser will •
take back every half dozen that remains unsold.
It at the same time affords the'ztercbant a
good pioilt, and to those who need it, it is of
more value than diver and gold, for what can be
of more value to man thansa medicine which car-
ries health and life to the suffering invalid?
We earnestly entreat all who read this to try
one bottle of Dr. Keyser's Blood Searcher it they
need such a medicine, and we will guarantee sat
isfaction. In order, however, not to--be disap
• pointed,let them buy none but that which has Dr-
Keyser's name over the Cork and blown In the
bottle, and in that waythe Doctor wilt bold him
self responsible fur Its results when the directions
are closely foll Owed. •
SOLD. AT THE DOCTOR'S - GREAT NEW
MEDICINE STORE, NO. 180 LIBERTY ST.
DR. E.EY3EE'4 CoN lILTATION ROOMY.
NU. 120 PENN ISTREILT, FROM 10A. M.
UNTIL P. M. •
WHAT IS A TONICI
Bear this in mind—that although 6 kink is, to a
certain extent, a stimulant—optimal/int, unmodi
fled by any medichialsubstancea, is nolo, tonic,
but A DKBILITA_NT. In HOSTETTER'S STOM—
ACH BITTERS there is A stimulating element of
the purest grade manufactured in this or Any
other country. Every
. flery ,and corrosive oil or
acid which contaminates the ordinary liquors of
commerce, is expelled frOm the rye spirit wh'ett
forms the alcoholic basis of the BITTERP., Try
careful and repeated rectification. The juices el
the valuable roots, barks and herb!, Infrotedinto
this wholesome prOdnel of the finest grain, Wilt -
further modify Its nature, so that it becomes, lia
hot, a simple dillusive agent s miiins all the heavy.
and brain exciting properties which belong,more
or less, to all liquors in a raw state. It Ismerely
the saes and hsrmiess vehicle which renders the
medicinal virtues of ,he 'preparation effective—
increasing their ac Ise power; and diffusing them.
thibugh the cistern. Hence the pleasant and
gentle glow whkh is experienced after ,taking a.
dose of the BITTE Its. Instead of creating head—
ache, as unniedicited a! imidants are apt to do,
this salubrious tonic is the best known remedy
for that Complaint. It cams and soothes cerebral:
excitement. strengthens the nerves, promotes the
secretion of the gastric juice, invigorates the
bowels, determines the fluids to the surface. im
proves tne appetite, iecreases the animal vigor.
regulates organic action. and, from its mild, Vet
effective. alterative qualities, Is the very best
preparation that can be administered to the weak
er sex in the peculiar difficulties to which their
organisation subjects them.
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SPRING STOCK
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OtIVER
119CLIXTOCK
1 COMPIII'S.'
We are redeiving this :
week by ocean steamers from
England a fresh stock of the
latest and most beautiful
lisede
signs . in Eng ' h. Tinestry .
and Body Bruss is by direct
importations fro the man
ufacturers. W invite the
inspection of ho furnish
ers, confident t at we offer
the largest assOrtment an&
greatest variety' of elegant
patterns ever brought to
this market, at -the lowest
prices. •
Great inducements are
offered in all grades of In
grains • and. Three Plies, it
being their constant aim to
offer to the multitude, the
fullest assortment of cheat
and serviceable Carpets at
lower rates than any other
hout3e Om trade.,
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